Curio PicturesThe Euphoria star shines in this remarkable adaptation of a Booker Prize-winning novel about an Australian prisoner of war in Thailand.
What do we want from our war stories? That’s a question at the core of this new five-part adaptation of Australian author Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel. Preparing to make a speech for a book launch, World War Two veteran Dorrigo Evans (Ciarán Hinds) ruefully says people just want tales “of heroism and mateship” – where he would rather give them “the truth”.
It’s certainly true that in general cultural discourse, there can be a tendency to present war history through a romanticised, “inspirational” lens – but on…