The BFI London film festival spearheaded its opening gala last week with Blitz, the new film by Steve McQueen, the Oscar and Bafta-garlanded writer-director of Hunger and 12 Years a Slave.
Blitz, which will be released in cinemas from 1 November and then on Apple TV+, is set in the second world war, with strong resonance for our modern volatile climate. It tells the story of George (played by Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old mixed-race boy evacuated to the countryside for safety, who absconds to make his way back to his factory worker mother (Saoirse Ronan) in London.
