"Oppenheimer" (2023) Directed by Christopher Nolan

It’s Wednesday 26th July 2023 and now four days on from seeing Oppenheimer for the first time, and as it’s raining cats and dogs here in the UK once more, washing away the early promise of a Summer extending past June, I thought it high time I make sense of the scribbled notes I made in the darkness of the cinema on a film I greatly admired and can only see growing in my affections akin to The Prestige into a genuine cinematic comfort blanket as well as a goddamn masterpiece.

Act One: Fission

Scrolling through the cast and crew list surprisingly there isn’t one person credited with the overall sound design and as ever in a Nolan film, the seeming tick-tock of a relentless clock throbs and pulses through a sound designed to unnerve and unsettle you. Ludwig Goransson deserves huge praise for his musical score and composition, the second collaboration with Nolan following 2020’s Tenet, and from the cinematography of long time collaborator Hoyte Van Hoytema through the production design of Ruth De Jong, the team of set decorators and costume designs of Ellen Mirojnick, expect all these behind the scenes heroes and heroines to be front and centre come Oscar season, 2024.

The above is an extract from my review of "Oppenheimer" penned, posted and published to my Medium blog site on 26th July 2023, a copy of which is posted immediately below:

https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/oppenheimer-2023-3ab98e06c7f3

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