Their Finest (2016)

Release date: 2017-04-07
Country: UK|Sweden|France
Language: English|Hungarian|Polish|French
Director: Lone Scherfig
Production Co: BBC Films, Welsh Government, Pinewood Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Rating: 6.8/10
Length: 1h 57min

Storyline

During the London Blitz of World War II, Catrin Cole is recruited by the British Ministry of Information to write scripts for propaganda films that the public will actually watch without scoffing. In the line of her new duties, Cole investigates the story of two young women who supposedly piloted a boat in the Dunkirk Evacuation. Although it proved a complete misapprehension, the story becomes the basis for a fictional film with some possible appeal. As Cole labors to write the script with her new colleagues such as Tom Buckley, veteran actor Ambrose Hilliard must accept that his days as a leading man are over as he joins the project. Together, this disparate trio must struggle against such complications such as sexism against Cole, jealous relatives, and political interference in their artistic decisions even as London endures the bombs of the enemy. In the face of those challenges, they share a hope to contribute something meaningful in this time of war and in their own lives.

Plot Keywords

triple f rated, workplace romance, film studio, air raid, world war two, based on novel, actor, f rated, year 1940, london england, screenwriter, sexism, artist, love triangle, bomb shelter, casting, dog, war hero, marriage engagement, name calling

Short Review

The characters' endless revision of the film within the film tends to heighten one's awareness of the compromises that must have gone into the writing of this formulaic piece.