esteban1747 Review of Yanks

Yanks (1979)

American soldiers in England before the entry of the Second Front in the II World War

[7/10 · 19 November 2001]

Good film of Schlesinger. It shows well the differences in behavior of Americans and British people, the first quite liberal while the second conservatives. This is true, but the film showed a scene of racism organized by the Yanks and repudiated by the "pommes". So the director masterfully was putting things in one way and another and showing the problems and differences realistically. The performance of Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Wiliam Devane and Vanessa Redgrave is really good. The loneliness of a person is presented here and the need to overcome it even if the method used ethically may not always be accepted by the society. This is the case of Jean having a compromise with another guy already in the front while in his absence she started the relationship with Matt (R. Gere).