This season saw five films taking audiences into war zones -- “Jojo Rabbit,” “A Hidden Life” “1917,” a remake of “Midway” and even “The Two Popes” — but not always the battlefields you might expect. Four of the five films are set in the European theater during the world wars, while McCarten’s “Popes” flashes back to Argentina’s Dirty War of the 1970s and ‘80s. “We were shooting in Prague and they constantly have World War II films there,” Neal notes. That was far more accessible.”“Popes,” for its part, is not so much a “war” film — but it does feature a character whose life was shaped by the Dirty War. And the main thing war films teach us in general is that we can overcome everything.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 15, 2020 22:52 UTC