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All Quiet on the Western Front
The Banshees of Inisherin
Argentina 1985
OUTSTANDING LOCATIONS IN A PERIOD FEATURE FILM
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Netflix
A young German soldier follows his patriotic
idealism into the hellscape of war in this gripping
World War I drama. Cleverly utilized locations in
and around Prague bring the grim period into
focus: the surrounding Czech countryside stands
in for bleak French battlefields, with hundreds
of feet of ditches dug at a Soviet-era airport to
recreate trench warfare scenes. The region's
forests and sweeping fields host encampments
and occupied villages, while its stately period
architecture, historic castles and grand manors
double as military command centers and
recruitment salons.
ARGENTINA 1985
Prime Video
Filming on location in Buenos Aires cranks up
the tension and the stakes in this historical
drama about an inexperienced legal team
prosecuting the heads of Argentina's bloody
military dictatorship. Symbols of government
power become the people's stage as the
country transitions to democracy: The quest
for justice plays out at the cathedral-like
neoclassical courtroom at the Palacio de
Tribunales and the city's oldest public square
the Plaza de Mayo.
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
Searchlight Pictures
Set in the 1920s and filmed on the spectacular
Irish coast, a seemingly prosaic squabble between
two life-long friends is cast against wider conflicts
through the film's visual language: wild panoramas
of restless seas, windswept skies, ancient
stonework and craggy mountains. Padraic leads a
simple but harsh life in a stone hut filmed on the
stunning cliffs of Irish heritage site Inish Mór, while
Achill Island is the site of musician and thinker
Colm's romantic bayside whaling cottage. Their
personal strife is both shaped by and dwarfed by
the majestic scenery, a deft metaphor for those
who were swept up in Ireland's historic civil conflict.
