Testament Of Youth

Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A powerful and passionate journey from youthful hoped and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Critics Reviews:

• “Somehow, Vikander sells it all, not with braying and big gestures, but with vulnerability, sincerity and the sort of ethereal realness that can’t be quantified. More, please, more.” – Tom Long (Detroit News)

• ”“Though the movie at times feels oddly unfinished (you wonder what Miranda Richardson, in a tiny role as an Oxford professor, is there for), it’s artful and moving.”“ – Moira MacDonald (Seattle Times)

• “In what is a well-acted but fairly typical prestige period drama, it’s Vikander’s nu­anced performance as the resolute but still-vulnerable Vera who gives the film its depth.” – Nathalie Atkinson (Globe and Mail)

• “Vera Brittain’s ce­lebrated memoir of the British home front in World War I gets a polished Masterpiece Theatre treatment that fails to diminish the story’s wrenching emotional content.” – J. R. Jones (Chicago Reader)

• “This is World War I from a woman’s point of view, a different perspective than we usually see. It’s the story of someone who doesn’t fight … but for whom the horrors of war are just as vivid and devastating.” – Bill Goodykoontz (Arizona Republic)