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Prophetic Film: "The March," 1990

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Every once in a while the BBC has quite spectacular films that project into the future.  They are of course known for their films of great works of literature, and for things that show up as multi-piece series on PBS's "Masterpiece" but they also fund films that are of good enough quality to be released in theatres: Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V", for example, or Michael Palin's "Remember Me."  But it can be hard to find one you might have seen many years ago until you finally remember one of the actors in it.

I have always enjoyed Juliet Stevenson since far enough back that I can't remember the first time I saw her.  The 1990 made-for-television movie "The March" seems like it could not possibly have been the first time, but it is the one I remember her in most vividly, even 25 years later.  I finally decided to look it up, because this film, about refugees arriving in Europe, is/was very memorable.

It was closer to today than I remembered.  And if you haven't seen it you should. It isn't exactly what we have now.  But in its depiction of people streaming into Europe for help, for new lives, from a destroyed country, this film gets so much right.


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