Benjamin Clémentine

We’ve seen old fashioned stories of World War II folks overcoming adversity and surviving the unthinkable trauma inherent to the era. Think movies like Mrs Miniver, and more recently, Hope and Glory. While those films involved women are part of their stories, they didn’t truly center on their challenges, nor did they focus on the many people of color in the UK dealing with wartime difficulties. Now award winning British filmmaker Steve McQueen is releasing Blitz, a film he wrote, directed, and produced, starring Saoirse Ronan and featuring pre-teen actor Harris Dickinson as mother and son facing the horrors of the 1940 London blitz.