Monday 2 April 2012

Resistance (Amit Gupta, 2011)

Alternate histories involving Nazis don't die, they just keep mutating into hybrid states. We've had the sci-fi and horror versions ad nauseam, even before the imminent Iron Sky, so now it's the turn of the serious and soulful occupation drama, centering on Welsh women in a remote valley wrestling with the ethics of collaboration as a platoon of Germans arrives. It's not much of a dilemma: the few local men still around are shown as being deluded in their continued resistance while the new arrivals are sensitive, helpful and good with animals. It is atmospheric but also takes itself far too seriously, right from the preposterous notion in the opening titles that Germany was still somehow capable of winning the war as late as 1944.

5/10

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