Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love and remembrance based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, opening in NZ cinemas on April 23.
About the film: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Differing from other dramas set in war time Testament of Youth is one females account of war through the eyes of love, courage, hope and loss.
About Vera Brittain: Vera was the daughter of a well-to-do family who owned paper mills in Hanley & Cheddleton. She had an uneventful childhood with her only brother her closest companion. Wanting to become a writer she studied English literature at Somerville College, Oxford. She delayed her degree in the summer of 1915 to work as a V.A.D.nurse for much of the first world war. Her fiancé Roland Leighton, two other close friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow, and her brother Edward Brittain all served during the war. This war was to bring inescapable horror and change into her life and shape the century dramatically.
Divided by war. United by Love.
4 STARS “A HUGELY STIRRING JUSTICE TO BRITTAIN’S LIFE’S WORK.” – THE TELEGRAPH
4 STARS “TRADITIONAL, HEARTFELT AND STIRRING IN ALL THE RIGHT WAYS” TIMES (UK)
Testament of Youth opens in NZ cinemas April 23.
JenRS - 10 years ago
Re: “Testament of Youth” seen 17th April with tickets from GrownUps
Thanks for the opportunity to go – when it does come out it will be one to recommend.
The film last night was amazing. We all know the outcome of most movies, but this being a ‘real-life’ story being told, the ending was not what was expected. The honesty within it was quite moving and it gave me an understanding of how the WW2 families [particularly the teens] had to cope as well. The decisions they had to make, and the feeling of them having to follow their peers must have been quite a strain on relationships within families and friendships. Horrible situations that can so easily make or break a person.
Thanks once again GrownUps — Jen [Dunedin]