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Blitz 2 (2160x1023)
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ACMI presents

Blitz

Steve McQueen | UK, USA | 2024 | Unclassified (15+)
Film

Tickets

Full

$20

Concession

$16

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$14

When

Fri 27 Dec 2024 - Sat 4 Jan 2025

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A young boy runs the gauntlet through a war-torn London in director Steve McQueen's action-fueled and heartfelt thriller.

In World War II London, with a large scale bombing campaign underway, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his single mother, Rita. Angry at being sent away, a defiant George embarks on a dangerous journey back to his war-ravaged home as Rita begins her own journey in search of him.

Curator's Note

In a follow-up to his epic and episodic wartime documentary Occupied City, director Steve McQueen returns with a more traditional and thoroughly riveting narrative exploration of World War II in Blitz.

In some ways the two films make an unofficial diptych, albeit one with two radically different approaches, set on opposite sides of the North Sea and making use of vastly different genres.

Where Occupied City lulls its audience into passive complicity, Blitz riles its audience up with creative dexterity that crafts a beautiful domesticity with one hand and elaborate action sequences with the other.

Blitz fittingly premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.

– Reece Goodwin, Curator (Film & TV)

Blitz is an old-fashioned movie in the best sense. It is full of remarkable scenes, some heartbreaking, some uplifting, all captured in stark beauty by French cinematographer Yorick Le Saux.

Stephen Romeim (The Australian)

Format: DCP
Language: English
Source: Apple TV+
Courtesy: Apple TV+
Runtime: 120 mins

Event duration

120 mins

Rating

Unclassified (15+)

Viewers under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

Where

Cinema 1, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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Best of 2024 (Fri 13 Dec 2024 – Wed 15 Jan 2025)

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