CINEMA
THE FEVERED anticipation that surrounds the release of any new Christopher Nolan movie—the secrecy! the leaks!—is almost as delicious as watching a new Christopher Nolan movie.
In late 2015, reports began to surface that he and his brother Jonathan had been spotted scouting locations in northern France for a film based on Operation Dynamo. This was the British military effort that saved the lives of 330,000 Allied soldiers who were evacuated from the French town of Dunkirk, an event that Winston Churchill later called a “miracle of deliverance.”