When Steve McQueen’s new film, Blitz, premieres at the London film festival on 9 October, those in attendance will see a side of the bombing raids and their aftermath that’s rarely shown in popular depictions.
It’s grimy and chaotic: people pick over dead bodies for valuables, fire crews wrestle with out-of-control hoses, while others find sexual freedom in the fog of war – it all happens during a story that focuses on a child’s attempt to make his way back to his mother after being evacuated.
