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When-the-Wind-Blows

When the Wind Blows

1986
Drama, War
1h 24m
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack... (imdb)
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94th
90
The couple's descent into sickness and implied death is more effective than all the mushroom clouds, bombed-out buildings, and piles of bodies that the genre has given us before and since.
Rated
88th
78
"They didn't blow up the sun, did they?" - "Oh no dear, science is still in its infancy". Threads ('84) with its dramatized "what if" about people in and after a nukefest, was as informative as it was (very) horrific. When the Wind Blows rather credits the viewer with understanding the reprecautions already - hence the Bloggs' virtual cluelessness is used to great ironic, comical and then tragic effect. By some point it is overdone a bit, but generally a film both harrowing and hilarious.
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86th
90
NOT the cartoon that you might expect. A highly mannered and decent but naive British couple attempt to deal with a nuclear attack. Quietly moving and tragic
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93rd
93
At once an affirmation of life and a rebuke of the evil it's capable of. The naïveté of the couple is devastating in their blind faith towards the society they wrongly believe will protect them, and yet, their fortitude of will to do their best despite their circumstance represents the best of our condition. There's a sequence of the couple's - Jim and Hilda's - commitment, their quiet affirmation of living, that brought me to tears. The film is the very definition of Common Grace.
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84th
85
Don't be fooled by the children's story-like animation: this is very dark and gloomy. Although, the couple's cluelessness does make for some brilliant moments of black humor.
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Written By: Raymond Briggs
Runtime: 1h 24m
Language: English
Country: UK

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