In the Premiere articles, there's also some interesting and short interviews of Emma Thomas, Lee Smith and Hoyte van Hoytema. I'll make the translations later. I'm quite busy at work now.

No, I get it, but Nolan's words that I quoted above imply that the air and sea storylines will be interlaced to the longer beach storyline. If they condense a week of action too much, it will feel very rushed. So I believe it's reasonable to assume that the beach storyline will be longer than the o...

The characters have no backstory....Interesting... Bland and boring characters confirmed. Not necessarily. In "Weekend at Dunkirk", a French movie about Operation Dynamo, the characters don't have a backstory and they aren't bland and boring. The same with Spielberg's "Duel" or Tarantino's "Reservo...

Christopher Nolan: "The film is told from three points of view. The air (planes), the land (on the beach) and the sea (the evacuation by the navy). For the soldiers embarked in the conflict, the events took place on different temporalities. On land, some stayed one week stuck on the beach. On the w...

dormouse7 wrote:YFR3 - two typos in the last part - "Di " and "classicalc".

There was also a typo elsewhere - I'll try to find it...

"killler" in the before-interview part

"minsunderstanding" near the start of the interview

"mentionned"

Thanks I corrected it

PREMIERE : I feel that what you are describing is more rare today. That the studio system no longer offers the same freedom to create. Did you have some difficulty to produce « Dunkirk » ? NOLAN : No. I don’t know. It's rare, but it has always been! Always try to think outside the box. To try new th...

PREMIERE : Process is at the heart of most of your films. It's the fuel of « Memento », it's the mechanics of Batman (how a superhero is constructed in a very concrete way) and it's the very subject of the « Prestige ». NOLAN : That’s right. The process fascinates me, the mechanical and human proces...

PREMIERE : In the prologue, there is this very impressive shot where we see the port from very high. Almost God’s point of view of God. Somewhat like giving the plan of the labyrinth and the rules of the game. "That's where everything is going to play ...". In your movies places often refer to the p...

PREMIERE : What is the impulse that makes you want to make a movie? Is it an image ? A sound ? A story ? For Dunkirk, how did this happen ? NOLAN : Emma (Thomas, his wife and producer) advised me to read a book on the evacuation of May 1940 telling me that there was perhaps a subject for me. I found...

PREMIERE : Unlike Interstellar or Inception, here we know the end of the story ... NOLAN : Dunkirk tells a series of paradoxical situations. The most obvious, the one that organizes the movie is actually known, but not necessarily by everyone. The army is stuck on this beach and must cross the Chann...