“In researching the period, I realized that the soldiers immersed in the events of Dunkirk were lost. When you read the stories of the war, they always tell of the horror of a situation. But the reports of the battle of Dunkirk insist on something else: what prevails is not the horror, it is the impossibility, the paradox, the incomprehension.. In Firston May 8, 2023, Christopher Nolan returned to this film which won him three Oscars. Dunkirkbroadcast Monday October 21, 2024 at 9:01 p.m. on France 3, looks back on the famous Operation Dynamo, a key moment in the Second World War. And to tell this event, the director pulled out all the stops.
This very important detail for Christopher Nolan in Dunkirk
To our colleagues, Christopher Nolan tells: “I wanted Dunkirk to be told from three points of view. The air, the land and the sea. For the people involved in the evacuation of May 1940, the events took place in different temporalities. […] To combine these different visions of history, we had to mix the temporal strata”. The director, to whom we also owe it Batman Begins (2005), the disturbing Inception (2010) and the multi-awarded Oppenheimer (2023), put his heart into the work to bring his project to life. “The graphic description wasn’t of much interest. I preferred to make a sensory film, an almost experimental film. Without dialogue. The soldiers have no story – at least I don’t tell it. C “is a film that aims to experience the experience of these characters from the inside. Their fear, their anxiety, their anguish.”he adds. A successful bet, since the film, starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles, walked away with the Oscars for best editing, best sound editing and best sound mixing. It must be said that the director paid particular attention to this detail. “Sound is an essential element that allows us to feel the perceptions of those who were trapped when the bombs fell from the sky”he adds. And this is not the only point of authenticity that was important to Christopher Nolan.
Where was filmed Dunkirk de Christopher Nolan ?
Because to show the horror of war, he chose the very place where the events that occurred between May 26 and June 4, 1940 took place: Dunkirk. As reported The Voice of the North in 2022, several locations in the city in the North of France have been mobilized. In Malo-les-Bains, “several scenes were filmed in the streets of the seaside resort, made up for the occasion, with sandbags, added wooden shutters, etc.”. As for the dike and the beach, they “are part of the places where a large part of the plot takes place, historical framework requires. As such, numerous modifications were carried out. The film’s decorators thus recreated the fronts of a hotel and a restaurant of ‘era at the intersection of rue Belle-Rade and the dike’they add. Finally, “the east pier of Dunkirk was one of the main filming locations for the film. The set designers completely reconstructed the wooden footbridge (now destroyed) which overlooked it in 1940. It is from this pier that boarding most Allied soldiers during Operation Dynamo. It is difficult, therefore, to be more real than these places which actually witnessed this historic moment, more than seven decades earlier.
