Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

TheLittleSongbird The book by Pat Barker (which I read as part of my present AS Level English literature course) is a very good one, very poignant at times,but there are some chapters that get a bit wordy and it gets quite complicated. In my opinion, I think the film Regeneration is outstanding, with wonderful performances, and fairly true to the book. True, Burns' encounter with the animals was done at the beginning, in alternative to halfway through the first part of the book, but either way, it would have had a big effect on me, and I thought personally that scene was a lot more disturbing in the film. The music is sensitive and very beautiful, and the direction is nothing short of solid. The cinematography is absolutely fabulous, and very realistic. Regeneration offers a different perspective of war, instead of the horrific realities conveyed in poems from Owen and Sassoon (referenced in the film), and in books like Birdsong, Regeneration concentrates on the mental and psychological effects on the soldiers sent to Craiglockhart. The result is a sometimes moving but always thought provoking account of the first world war. The performances were brilliant, especially Jonathan Pryce as the methodical but fairly sensitive Rivers. Also impressive was Johnny Lee Miller as Prior, and James Wilby as Sassoon, creating very harsh but somewhat likable characters. The exploration of other themes like role of women and politics were well developed but never interfered with the true focus of the film. All in all, a moving, intelligent and thoughtful account of the first world war, not only inferring the harsh realities but also conveying the physical, mental and spiritual consequences of the soldiers. 10/10 Bethany Cox.

paul2001sw-1 Pat Barker's award-winning 'Regeneration' trilogy was inspired by the fact that a number of the celebrated poets of the Great War had spent time being treated in the same hospital for shell-shocked officers. Her stories of ill men being made fit to die again have a necessarily ironic, but limited, narrative trajectory, but the books offset this through the precise economy of their prose and their complete lack of sentimentality. In his film of 'Regeneration', Gillies McKinnon has been broadly faithful to the spirit of the novels, but has softened them slightly - the setting is now not Edinburgh, but a beautiful Scottish country house, and the soldiers are assigned a dignity and innocence not wholly convincing. The result is a little bland compared to the original, a tale of good men, whereas the books are simply a tale of men and all the stronger for it.

yossarian100 Regeneration is one of those films you know in advance is going to be painful to watch. Some of the images are quite strong, almost electric, and the photography is very good. Good performances combined with seriously good writing make this an important film to see.

stamper This film is not too bad. Although I did not enjoy most of the film too much, there were certain scenes which were definitely worth while. My favorite scenes were the war scenes, the scenes with Sassoon (especially the ones with poetry) and the last scene. As a result of this film, I must really urge you to read some of Sigfried Sassoons work and also some of Owen's. I read some in school and I found that some of their work is really fantastic. 6,5 out of 10