In Empire of Light, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (1917; Skyfall) draws on his mother's experiences to craft an unusual love story and ode to cinema, set against the backdrop of Thatcherism.
that the film's exploration of race, in which Stephen is bullied and beaten by a gang of skinheads, was the result of his writing the film at the time of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 – but it sometimes feels like a whim that wound up being underdeveloped.
What's most surprising, in that sense, is just how creaky the film is at crafting its love letter to celluloid. Penning his first solo screenplay, Mendes – when he's not cribbing poetry from Auden, Eliot and Tennyson – defaults to laying on all-purpose speeches on the magic of the movies.
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