Sam Mendes
4 titles · british contemporary
American Beauty, the first film by the London theatre director Sam Mendes, won the Oscar for Best Picture: a suburban father in a midlife crisis fixates on his daughter's friend. Revolutionary Road returns to the suburbs, in 1950s Connecticut, with a young couple whose marriage is under strain. 1917 follows two British soldiers across enemy territory to deliver a message, filmed to look like one continuous shot.
Signature
- Suburban unhappiness (American Beauty, Revolutionary Road).
- Theatrical precision in staging and performance.
- War from the soldier's eye (Jarhead, 1917).
- Photography by Conrad Hall and Roger Deakins.
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