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Testament of Youth

16 Jan 15 – 16 Apr 15, 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM

The BBC's World War One centenary season continues with romantic drama based on the memoir of Vera Brittain

By CW Contributor on 21/11/2014

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Films to see in London this week include Testament Of Youth, a BBC film based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, has recently received its World Premiere at the London Film Festival, at the end of what has been a huge year for First World War Commemorations.
The BBC World War I Centenary season was announced at the end of 2013, and is to last until the end of 2018, comprising of 130 newly commissioned radio and television programmes and lasting over 2500 hours. So far this extensive line-up has included TV dramas such as Crimson Field, 37 Days and Our World War, (and coming up we can expect exciting things from The Passing Bells), documentaries which include Paxman’s Britain’s Great War, Nial Ferguson’s The Pity of War and landmark radio drama Homefront. Among the latest British films, however, this is certainly one to get excited about. 
Testament of Youth, directed by television darling James Kent (The White Queen, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister) and written by Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls, Death Comes to Pemberley), stars Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina) as Vera Brittain, an intelligent and spirited girl who overcomes her family prejudices to gain a scholarship to Oxford. Once there she falls for her brother’s dazzling friend Roland Leighton (played by Kit Harington, of Game of Thrones fame) and the two prepare to enjoy their literary pursuits. The First World War presses in, however, and their lives are thrown into disruption. 
The film boasts an excellent cast; Vikander herself has seven new film releases: reviews for her past performances have been largely praiseworthy, and her movies coming out this year include Son Of A Gun, Tulip Fever and Ex Machina. In Testament of Youth Vikander all be receiving support from Dominic West (Pride, The Wire), Hayley Atwell (The Duchess, Captain America), Colin Morgan (Merlin, The Fall), and twice Oscar-nominated Emily Watson (War Horse, Breaking the Waves).
If early reviews are anything to go by, this should be a welcome complement to the BBC’s so far excellent commemoration season. One of the most moving new films out at cinema and picturehouse venues across London this month, Testament of Youth is certainly necessary watching. 


Courthault Talk: Testament of Youth
Rosie Alison (producer), Mark Bostridge (Vera Brittain’s biographer), and Joanna Scanlan (who plays Vera Brittain’s aunt) will be giving a talk entitled Filming ‘Testament Of Youth’, on Wednesday the 21st of January at the Courtault Institute of Art, 7pm. The three will be discussing the challenges of adapting Brittain’s memoir, a classic of First World War literature, into film. A must for any film-makers or fans of Brittain's searing work. 


What Testament of Youth
Where Various Locations | MAP
Nearest tube Leicester Square (underground)
When 16 Jan 15 – 16 Apr 15, 12:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Price £various
Website Click here for more information



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    THE EVENING STANDARD

    ‘Stunningly good rising star Alicia Vikander makes this a desperately moving war tale.'

    David Sexton

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    ‘Deftly balancing restrained sentimentalism with tough-minded human tragedy, this impressive, unashamedly classical feature debut by TV helmer James Kent has the populist heft one expects from producer David Heyman, while preserving the solemn intimacy of Brittain’s account of lives and loves severed by the conflict.’

    Guy Lodge

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