Battleground

Campo di battaglia

Biennale di Venezia

VERDICT: Three doctors of different political views struggle to treat soldiers returning from the front during WWI and combat a new menace, the Spanish flu, in director Gianni Amelio’s grimly shocking film about war’s after-effects, ‘Battleground’.

Admirable for its uncompromising treatment of real-life horror, Battleground (Campo di battaglia) is
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