The Narrow Road to the Deep North

  • Drama
  • War & Politics
4/18/2025

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The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.

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  • moviefestuk

    Amazon Primes "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" is not a war drama in the conventional sense. It is a quiet, unflinching study of memory, guilt, and the impossibility of reconciling the past with the present. Adapted from Richard Flanagans Booker Prize-winning novel and brought to the screen with striking restraint by director Justin Kurzel (whose in the best form of his career), this five-part Australian miniseries is as devastating as it is beautiful.

    The story unfolds across three timelines, each a fragment of the fractured soul of Dorrigo Evans. As a young army surgeon (played with aching vulnerability by Jacob Elordi), Dorrigo is taken prisoner during World War II and forced to work on the infamous Burma Railway a stretch of trac...

    May 25, 2025
  • moviefestuk

    Amazon Primes "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" is not a war drama in the conventional sense. It is a quiet, unflinching study of memory, guilt, and the impossibility of reconciling the past with the present. Adapted from Richard Flanagans Booker Prize-winning novel and brought to the screen with striking restraint by director Justin Kurzel (whose in the best form of his career), this five-part Australian miniseries is as devastating as it is beautiful.

    The story unfolds across three timelines, each a fragment of the fractured soul of Dorrigo Evans. As a young army surgeon (played with aching vulnerability by Jacob Elordi), Dorrigo is taken prisoner during World War II and forced to work on the infamous Burma Railway a stretch of trac...

    May 30, 2025
  • moviefestuk

    Amazon Primes "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" is not a war drama in the conventional sense. It is a quiet, unflinching study of memory, guilt, and the impossibility of reconciling the past with the present. Adapted from Richard Flanagans Booker Prize-winning novel and brought to the screen with striking restraint by director Justin Kurzel (whose in the best form of his career), this five-part Australian miniseries is as devastating as it is beautiful.

    The story unfolds across three timelines, each a fragment of the fractured soul of Dorrigo Evans. As a young army surgeon (played with aching vulnerability by Jacob Elordi), Dorrigo is taken prisoner during World War II and forced to work on the infamous Burma Railway a stretch of trac...

    June 3, 2025

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