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Wooden Crosses

Wooden Crosses

1932
Drama, War
1h 55m
Set during WWI, the story concentrates on a handful of French draftees, including an idealistic student named Demachy (Pierre Blanchard). Marching off to war with joyful patriotic fervor, the men are quickly disillusioned by the appalling realities of total warfare... (All Movie)
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Wooden Crosses

1932
Drama, War
1h 55m
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Rated 12 Apr 2008
80
66th
Plays like kind of a "greatest hits of war movie clichés". One of my least favorites is the one where the rookie gets introduced to the guys, and of course each has their own quirk/trait that they're identified with. Like "this is Joe, the loudmouth of the company" or "and this guy here is Frank, he's meaner than he looks". However, Bernard's filmmaking style is impressive, it appears to be about 15-20 years ahead of its time. He manages some very poetic moments, particularly in the beginning an
Rated 01 Apr 2015
80
79th
Holds up well. No gore but lots of implied. Dark humour, a little on the nose with it's anti-war message but it wasn't a time of subtlety in film
Rated 18 Nov 2007
95
89th
Depressing and pessimistic, this is one of the greatest anti-war films of all time.
Rated 20 Jan 2010
8
90th
In many ways, this is a highly standard war flick, but the technical qualities give it a remarkably timeless feel.
Rated 29 Dec 2012
60
89th
This is in a way a French version of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). It's got a lot of the same kind of personalities and a similar way the war fighting is portrayed and filmed. A lot of quality footage, but hardly anything revolutionary. Even for 1932 most of the creative angles about World War 1 had already been done to death during the 15 years since the war had passed. Still the movie has enough good scenes and enough happening to make it a enjoyable war flick.
Rated 08 Feb 2018
4
74th
A companion piece to All Quiet on the Western Front but less verbose in its pacifist sentiment, eschewing the politics and propaganda of the former film in favor of a more abstract depiction of the inevitable specter. Many decades of anti-war cinema have taught us that, of course, War is Hell, but here is a film over which death looms like few others, and presented with far advanced technique. The Ten Days passage is one of the great battle sequences ever filmed.
Rated 23 Dec 2019
73
82nd
Done of the characters are memorable which lessen the emotional impact a lot. However the battle scenes are intense and the camerawork is solid.
Rated 07 Mar 2019
82
88th
Although this one is made two decades before it, this reminded my very much of Fuller's Fixed Bayonets in how they both portray how a group of soldiers experience the war in a humane realistic way without going into the ideologies behind their wars.

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