FILM 2362: ALLIED (2016)

TRIVIA: For the limited French dialog spoken by Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard acted as his tutor.

The inspirations for the film's costumes were Casablanca (1942) and Now, Voyager(1942), where the costumes combined both simplicity and beauty.

The Morocco scenes were filmed in Las Palmas, Spain, which is only 93 miles off the Moroccan coast and shares a similar climate.

The Wedding location is the York Minster pub, which is the correct era name for the French House Pub in Soho, London. As the camera enters the pub the shot looks authentic. However it is a small pub and most of the action takes place in what looks like a set extension. The pub was used by French military based in London at the time.

Only the third Robert Zemeckis film to carry an R rating; the first two being Used Cars(1980) and Flight (2012).

Jared Harris's character Frank Heslop is seen in the same room as photos of King George VI, the same character he played in the Netflix show The Crown (2016), which was also released in November of 2016.

This is featured on the podcast Blank Check episode Allied With Chris Weitz

ONE SENTENCE REVIEW: Great to see Pitt and Cotillard playing against each other, an okay film which could have been made much better with more tension.