Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War

2022

Documentary

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 6 reviews
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 83 83

world war ii artist

Plot summary

One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in 1942. His life is as compelling and enigmatic as his art, set against the dramatic wartime locations that inspire him. This film brings to life this unique and still grossly undervalued British artist caught in the crossfire of war 80 years ago, whose legacy largely sank without trace, until now…

Director

Margy Kinmonth Photo
Margy Kinmonth

Top cast

Tamsin Greig Photo
Tamsin Greig as Tirzah Garwood
Freddie Fox Photo
Freddie Fox as Eric Ravilious
Mark Miller Photo
Mark Miller as
Charles Saumarez Smith Photo
Charles Saumarez Smith as
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782.14 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
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25 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.42 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bryan-16440 4 / 10

Lovely Film 8/10 with one horrendous flaw 0/10

Reviewed by paul2001sw-1 7 / 10

Portrait of the artist as a young man

Eric Ravilious's paintings have a particularly English quality; but while they celebrate the English landscape, they in no way romaticise it. He later became a naval war artist, and died in Iceland while painting the fight against Hitler. This documentary, filled with many examples of his art, casts him as a boyish innocent, a man filled with simple excitement at the joys in his life, very much including his craft, albeit one who asked a lot of his (also talented) wife. If you like what you see in this film, the Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden is a great place to see his work (and that of the other Great Bardfield artists).
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