Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper´s immersive account of one 20-year-old´s journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity.
Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick´s longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of WWII and a dreamlike meditation on man´s smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine.