Steve McQueen returns to the big screen with Blitz, a Second World War drama about a mother's quest to reunite with her missing son amidst the devastation of '40s London – but it was a scene about collective protest that he found the most powerful to film.
In one of the movie's early scenes, the BBC comes to the munitions factory where Rita, played by Saoirse Ronan, is working. She beautifully sings a song for a morale-boosting broadcast around the nation, until the other women workers seize the moment to call for the government to open up the city’s underground stations and provide shelter for its citizens.
