Out to Own Today - The Imitation Game and '71

Out to own today:

The Imitation Game

“Alright gentlemen, let’s play,” Hugh Alexander (Matthew Goode)

1940, the Second World War, Britain is starving at the hands of the Nazis. Shipping lanes, containing valuable resources, are harried by U-boats and bombed by the Luftwaffe. Secret communication amongst the enemy is via a machine the size of a typewriter, Enigma – “the greatest encryption device in history”. Before it resets on a daily basis, the British have 18 hours to crack the code. There are 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 possibilities every day. Scene set thus, to a compelling musical score from Alexandre Desplat, which reminds of Dario Marianelli’s ATONEMENT.
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'71

“You’re just a piece of meat to them,” Eamon McCarthy (Richard Dormer)

Imagine a British APOCALYPTO, set in Northern Ireland, during the 1970s. ’71 is a small-scale, yet more tense BLACK HAWK DOWN. Positioning an action-thriller during the Troubles might have been tasteless in the wrong hands, but writer Gregory Burke, director Yann Demange and cast/crew concoct a story that traverses a political knife-edge without taking sides; and actually offers a fascinatingly bleak take on that civil unrest.
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