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THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR

 THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR {13M:4F} - A FIRST WORLD WAR DRAMA (115 mins) - See Review


Based on the wartime roles of people from the Nidderdale area of Yorkshire - the drama pivots on two moments when a General is provided with the chance to avoid the needless slaughter of the men in the trenches. The symbolic class obsessions in the dining scenes in the General’s Chateau– the finer points of cigars and vintage wine – are intercut with the hellhole of the trenches, revealing the crassness of the hierarchy and the horrors of war. But this serves only as a framework for a much deeper analysis of the human condition in all its tainted glory as the usual Great War platitudes are cleverly subverted to take a closer look at the flawed nature of heroism. The General fails the men on the first occasion and only a gripping denouement prevents them from being failed a second time.

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