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Private Peaceful
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Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers who struggle through a harsh childhood and adolescence in rural Devon, England fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers who struggle through a harsh childhood and adolescence in rural Devon, England fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Actors:
Frasier Huckle,
Henry William Galpin,
Paul Ready,
Rita Davies,
James McArdle,
Stephen Kennedy,
Anna Carteret
Frasier Huckle
Henry William Galpin
17 August 1983, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Paul Ready
Rita Davies
24 February 1933, Hertfordshire, England, UK
James McArdle
Stephen Kennedy
17 June 1970, Northern Ireland, UK
Anna Carteret
11 December 1942, Bangalore, India
Country:
United Kingdom
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October 12, 2012
The filmmakers tell this World War I story beautifully, but they never quite bring it to life as a proper movie. By taking a gently simplistic approach, it never feels like anything new as it deals with the usual topics of battlefield camaraderie.
July 18, 2013
A cliché-ridden, thoroughly forgettable, at times just plain dull affair, with broad characterisations and musty plot turns that would seem embarrassing even on TV - where it ideally belongs.
October 30, 2014
A long, long, trail a-winding, to be sure. But fans of PBS, history and a certain kind of old-fashioned moviemaking may fall in.
October 28, 2014
O'Connor captures all the beauty of these rural childhoods without skimping on the harsh realities of 20th-century feudalism.
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October 27, 2014
Trench warfare as the backdrop for a tawdry love triangle about as incestuous as it gets.
October 31, 2014
Melancholy runs deep in "Private Peaceful," a richly appointed British period piece about fraternal loyalty adapted from the book of the same name by "War Horse" author Michael Morpurgo.
October 31, 2012
The ending is dynamite and will shock children just as much as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
October 11, 2012
O'Connor shows his old-school expertise in the charming country childhood sequences, where the film feels most individual and alive.
October 13, 2012
It's perhaps more TV than cinema, but O'Connor directs with a firm hand, and children will learn valuable lessons from it.
October 30, 2014
A World War I fable that's as stiff as an Eton collar and as plodding as a draft horse.
October 29, 2014
By modestly embracing its inherent minimalism and finding the emotions underlying even the most schematic of scenarios, the film taps into something unmistakably human.