From actor and director George Clooney comes the newest adventure pulled from the annuls of time. While many film producers are looking to the future or fantasy to find new and enlightening stories, Clooney has done the opposite and gone back to where stories are born. There is no greater a place for stories of bravery, valor, or literally saving the world from itself than war.
Based on a true story, ‘The Monuments Men‘ is the tail of a rag tag band of architects, designers, and art historians set into occupied France and Germany during World War Two to save the culture of the world. Hitler was many things. Most of them indescribably bad, but he was a lover of art. It was this aspect of him, combined with his crazy belief in the supernatural, that led him to steal all of the most famous cultural artifacts that he could lay his hands on.
During the closing months of the war, the order was put out that if Germany surrendered then all of these treasures would be destroyed. Enter George Clooney as art preservationist George Stout. The man tasked with stopping this from happening.
George is followed into battle by his team of veteran actors. Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin and Hugh Bonneville make up the special task force in a sort of high culture ‘Inglourious Basterds’. A story of true courage, it is sure to be filled with traditional high intensity action and dead pan comedy that we have come to expect from the stars involved.
‘The Monuments Men’ complete the trilogy of Clooney’s strange but true war stories (‘Three Kings’, ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’) and comes out in UK cinemas this February.
