When the Wind Blows
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
Our read · When the Wind Blows (1986) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · animation · war entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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