Guernica - 2016 (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

Has anyone seen this movie? I don't expect it is all that historic as it is classified as Romance/War. but
I want to see it. Supposed be have been released 22 July. Not locally for me. Even Art theaters. Amazon
has a DVD (no Blu-ray) listed for release 2 August/15 August in UK.

 

[jazzeum]

Hadn't but would like to see it. Some site has a release date in September.

 

[BLReed]

Here's a some more background. The real journalist portrayed in the film was George Steer, British
not Henry an American. Maybe his heirs objected or copyright problems with his book, Tree of Gernika.

"Steer’s reports for the Times and for the New York Times were famously inspirational in their own right. It was a French version of his account, carried in l’Humanité, that prompted Pablo Picasso to create the huge monochrome painting, Guernica, as testament to the suffering of his countrymen.

Filing his story the day after the notorious air attack, Steer wrote: “At 2am today when I visited the town the whole of it was a horrible sight, flaming from end to end. The reflection of the flames could be seen in the clouds of smoke above the mountains from 10 miles away. Throughout the night houses were falling until the streets became long heaps of red impenetrable debris.” Picasso began work on his great painting four days later."


https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/08/reporter-guernica-inspired-picasso-film-drama

 

[BLReed]

The movie DVD was released yesterday. It is worth a watch. One of the better movies I
have seen this year. I wonder why it wasn't widely distributed.

 

[jazzeum]

Did you buy/rent it or watch it online?

 

[BLReed]

Did you buy/rent it or watch it online?

I bought it. Mostly because I have several Basque friends I grew up with that should see it.
Good thing as I need to watch it again. I had trouble keeping up with the different factions.
The most confusing Civil War. Not as simple as blue and grey. Republicans, Nationalists,
Loyalists, German, Italian Russian and none of them 100%. The only one with a clear purpose it
seems was (in movie) von Richthofen.

 

[jazzeum]

I've read a lot on the SCW and there were a lot of parties within the Republican Government. The Nationalists (the Franco Forces) were clearer, just Franco, the Germans and the Italians. The Foreign Legion belonged to Franco.

Later on you had the civil war within the Civil War.

 

[Louis Badolato]

I would also be very interested in seeing this movie. John Jenkins Spanish Civil War series got me interested in the conflict, which is, in my mind, to World War II what the Mexican American War (1846-1848) was to the Civil War: a lot of the WWII participants learned warfare or tested their strategies and weapons in the Spanish Civil War the way many of the United States Civil War commanders got blooded and tested their strategies in the Mexican American War.

 

[BLReed]

Besides the online streaming RedBox is carrying this. At least the one near me had it this afternoon.

 

[jazzeum]

I just watched this movie tonight and thought it was pretty good, gripping. It gives, generally, a good picture of Spain at that time. After all these years, my blood still boils what the Germans and Franco did to the Basques.

I think you get more out of the movie if you have some knowledge of the Spanish Civil War.