A 2017 film by Christopher Nolan depicting the 1940 Dunkirk evacuation from three temporal perspectives — land (one week), sea (one day), and air (one hour).
Stripped war cinema of backstory and dialogue to create a pure experiential survival film with a triptych time structure, widely praised as one of the most formally innovative war films ever made.
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