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Birdsong

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David Hinckley New York Daily News Aug 18, 2018
Birdsong burrows down into the individual stories and dreams that die on these killing fields, and in that sense it is terribly sad. Go to Full Review
Phil Dyess-Nugent AV Club Aug 18, 2018
Birdsong doesn't really have a feel for the loss of control that comes with romantic passion, but it does shamelessness like a Hollywood pro. Go to Full Review
Serena Davies Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 18, 2018
4/5
The BBC, then, have done something important - they have made an elegiac, lyrical film (that is better than Spielberg's War Horse) with which the next generation can associate the war. It aspires to the sentiments of the war poets. Go to Full Review
Alex Behan The Post NZ Aug 27, 2021
More war and peace than War and Peace, the battle scenes are intense and the romantic chemistry no less so. Go to Full Review
Adam Sweeting The Arts Desk Aug 18, 2018
Birdsong is essentially an epic romance intensified by its backdrop of all-consuming disaster, a Titanic with a much bigger iceberg, but if you love the book this TV incarnation ought to hit the spot. Go to Full Review
Louisa Mellor Den of Geek Aug 18, 2018
Birdsong may have a difficult job in trying to match the strength of Faulks' descriptive prose and his evocation of the degradation of human life, but it comes as close as you could imagine an adaptation might. Go to Full Review
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Eddie Redmayne

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Clémence Poésy

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Joseph Mawle

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Anthony Andrews

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