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Directed by James Kent
2015, UK, 129 min
Adapted by screenwriter Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls), this film is an epic story of love, war and remembrance told from a woman’s point of view. Beautifully crafted and photographed, the film concerns the story of Vera – irrepressible, intelligent and free minded – who overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s brilliant friend Roland as they go to university to pursue their literary dreams. But World War I is looming, and as the boys leave for the front, Vera realizes she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country so she volunteers as a nurse and sets off for France. Her experience in ministering to the wounded on the battlefield transforms her views on war, thus becoming a lifelong pacificist and wrote the now famous 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth.
