![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The dozen or so Germans charged with restoring the beach are uncomfortably young (they were conscripted by the Nazis toward the end of the war to boost the Axis’s numbers) and largely indistinct. ![]() Zandvliet modernizes his homage to Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion by infusing it with the narrative tension of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, dramatizing an operation to clear tens of thousands of landmines from a Danish beach after the German occupation of Denmark ends in defeat. Writer-director Martin Zandvliet’s Land of Mine treats a little-known chapter in the history of World War II as a jumping-off point to extol the tenets of masculine liberal humanism-and, needless to say, it’s been nominated for an Academy Award for foreign language film.
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