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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Hope and Glory, it views the Second World War through a child’s fiercely subjective imagination, balancing domestic upheaval, dark comedy and the strange exhilaration of history invading everyday life.
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Why this pick
A visually expansive yet intimate wartime coming-of-age story, centred on a boy whose curiosity and resilience persist as the adult world collapses around him.
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Why this pick
It shares the child-level perspective and precisely observed school-life texture, letting wartime pressures gradually darken an initially mischievous, enclosed world.
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Why this pick
For the same tender, memory-shaped English sensibility: a young man’s life is altered by conflict’s aftermath, told with quiet humour, pastoral beauty and emotional restraint.
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Why this pick
Another richly remembered childhood world, where family rituals, games and wonder coexist with fear; its warm period detail makes adult conflict feel especially vivid through young eyes.
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01 / THE STORY
Beginning just before the start of the World War II, the film tells the story of the Rohan family: Billy, his sisters Sue and Dawn, and his parents Grace and Clive, living in a suburb of London. After the war starts, Clive joins the army, leaving Grace alone to watch over the children.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Grace Rowan
Clive Rowan
Dawn Rowan
Mac
Molly
Cpl. Bruce Carrey
Faith
Charity
