Boyero, on the film ‘Blitz’ by Steve McQueen, that “man with excessive prestige”: “It is difficult for me to remember something that has fascinated me” | Culture

“It’s not that big of a deal,” said Carlos Boyero yesterday Friday in his review of the movie of the week in EL PAÍS. He was referring to Blitzthe new title from British director Steve McQueen. This war drama set in London during World War II tells, as Boyero himself describes, the sad odyssey of a mixed-race boy whose mother tries to get him to go to the countryside by train to escape danger.

McQueen’s new drama, which the critic describes in his text as a “man with excessive prestige”, is Apple TV+’s big bet and, if everything goes as the British and American press predict, a dazzling artistic and commercial success. However, Boyero does not see the relationship between these expectations and the film: “What I see and hear on the screen does not particularly excite me. It doesn’t disinterest me or bore me either. But I don’t understand the unconditional enthusiasm for her.” “Of Blitz It’s hard for me to remember something that has fascinated me,” the critic concludes his text, in which he takes the opportunity to reflect on how movie theaters, the former “natural setting” for press screenings, have mutated into a digital link that can be viewed on a computer. . “New times, new customs, new businesses,” he laments.

According to an interview given by McQueen to EL PAÍS journalist Álex Vicente about his new job, Blitz It is not intended to be a history lesson. “My film is set in 1940, but it talks about 2024. In that child’s face I also see Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Sierra Leone or any place at war today,” says the filmmaker.

Read Carlos Boyero’s full review on Blitz in EL PAÍS at this link: ‘Blitz’: no ​​big deal. And only if you have Apple TV+.