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Watch: War Requiem 1989 123movies, Full Movie Online – A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It’s imagery reflects Owen’s story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars, including World War II, Vietnam, and Angola..
Plot: A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen’s poems reflecting the war’s horrors. It shows the story of an Englishman soldier (Wilfred Owen) and a nurse (his bride) during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars (WWII, Vietnam, Angola, etc.)
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 855
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	N/A Votes: 16 Popularity: 2.284 | TMDB

Reviews:

The Artifice of Opera, The Failure of War
Maybe it would have helped to have listened to the music first and more often. At times I would try to follow the poem/lyrics and just get lost.

Other times I would watch Tilda Swinton, and then go back and time her. Six whopping minutes of watching her run through her emotions. Sorry this was a breaking point for me… It reminded me that she does a sleep in a museum exhibit sometimes, and sort of made me dislike all actors.

Snowballs and pianos and soldiers, that was quite a scene, but it’s small humanity gone wrong within the framework of war is lost in the bombast of the soundtrack for me.

I did find the use of the gruesome footage towards the finale had an interesting effect. Other footage was used throughout but typically cannons and shots from the trenches paled in comparison to some of those shots towards the end, that many viewers might have a difficult time with. I know I did, on two levels.

First it made me move from disliking actors to disliking humanity. War is failure but never more blatantly so than seeing the anguish and destruction of a single man, no matter what his uniform indicates. But again these images, like so many other lingering scenes, went on long enough to alter their affect from powerful to overpowering. Instead of feeling the loss of the individual, I felt like I was being thrust into a viewing of Faces of the Dead (or whatever that cult film is called which I have no desire to see).

The opera itself was torture enough for me. With time and exposure, I could perhaps appreciate it more, or become a fan of it. Not so with the carnage of war.

song of madness
Derek Jarman’s “War Requiem” is not a movie in the general sense of the term. The only dialogue is at the beginning. From there it’s all images of soldiers, set to the tune of Benjamin Britten’s* requiem of the same title. I’d say that the movie works as a look at the horrors of war. The focus is World War I, but it includes footage of later wars. The music offers a good contrast to the war, but at the same time it distracts.

This is the first Jarman movie that I’ve ever seen. It has its merits and its weaknesses. It turned out to be one of Jarman’s final movies (he died of an AIDS-related illness in 1994). What the movie should do is force us to take a serious look at WWI. Not only did it senselessly kill millions and create a lost generation, but Versailles Negotiations set the stages for Hitler’s rise to power, the Vietnam War, and the current bloodshed in the Middle East.

So the movie does a good job showing the horrors of the war, although I doubt that it’s possible to portray to the full extent. It’s not clear if Jarman meant for the emphasis to be on the war, or on the operatic soundtrack accompanying the scenes. The result is an OK, not great effort.

PS: Jarman, an openly gay man, fought Thatcher’s proposed anti-gay laws in the ’80s. I wonder what he would think now that the UK has marriage equality.

*Benjamin Britten’s music more recently appeared in Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom”.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 32 min (92 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, War
Director Derek Jarman
Writer Derek Jarman, Wilfred Owen
Actors Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby SR (as spectral recording Dolby Stereo SR in selected theatres)
Aspect Ratio N/A
Camera N/A
Laboratory Studio Film Labs
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm, 8 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical, Super 8
Printed Film Format 35 mm (partial blow-up)