“April is the cruellest month” is the opening verse of ‘The Wasteland’ by T.S. Eliot, a land that remains dry, rotten and dead without spring’s rebirth and resurrection. April 6,1917 is indeed the cruellest day, as we physically enter the movie’s setting, a landscape that comes directly from Paul Nash’s modernist painting of the WW1 desolated front in which not only the body but also the mind of the soldiers rots. Not to be missed – there is no 007 here to save the world and no American Beauty.
