Russell Crowe's new film as both director and actor, 'The Water Diviner', is about a father who travels to Turkey to recover the bodies of his three sons killed in action there during the disastrous 1915 Gallipoli campaign. I'm not sure if the characters are based on actual individuals or rather, I suspect, a fictional interpretation and compilation of events from that campaign and World War 1 generally.
I'm in two minds about the film. It is one of those gung ho type 'boys' adventure with a touch of gentle romance for women viewers all of which is cloaked in a dust of nationalist nostalgia. At the same time it is quite a reasonable entertainment, a bit reminiscent of the old Saturday matinee adventures.
★★★
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