Matthijs van Heijningen Jr

Review Of The Forgotten Battle: Not To Be Missed War Epic

The Forgotten Battle(Netflix, Dutch) Directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr Rating: *** ½ I remember my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert writing about the great David Lean’s failed 1970 love epic Ryan’s Daughter that the story was too lightweight to take the burden of Lean’s vision. The opposite is true of The Forgotten Battle, a Dutch war epic set in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation in the World War 2. The enormity and scale of the drama is so imposing , they bear the full brunt of director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr’s ambitious direc | Click Here...