Review

by Natacha V

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It's incredible (and slightly depressing) to think that there was a time when British cinema was actually quite daring, and had more than a bit of vision to go with it. Granted, there's been quite a few decent British films over the years but the film-making climate which could have produced something as ambitious and visionary as this certainly seems like a foreign country in the current age of British cinema. Spanning 100 years of alternative history (and future) from 1940, Things To Come is an epic in every sense but justifies it's broad sweep of subject matter by consistently presenting visual after visual on screen that make you marvel at the year in which it was made. Hailed as England's first $1million film, it's hard to see today's British directors managing as much with 1000 times the budget.