Thursday, September 17, 2015

TIFF: In Visceral War Film 'Kilo Two Bravo,' Every Move Is Life-or-Death

American audiences are in for a shock with "Kilo Two Bravo," the visceral, disturbing, heroic and otherwise electric UK war film playing the Toronto Film Festival, about British soldiers in Afghanistan. There were British soldiers in Afghanistan? For a lot of people, particularly Americans, that will be the first shock. The second, far more powerful, is director Paul Katis’ portrayal of his hellishly marooned central characters: A group of British soldiers, mostly paratroopers of the Third Battalion, who in 2006 found themselves in the middle of an old Soviet minefield while stationed at the Kajaki Dam in Afghanistan. Every small move becomes a life-or-death decision;...

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