Read what the critics have to say about Foxtrot’s new Margy Kinmonth film ERIC RAVILIOUS – DRAWN TO WAR.
‘He died in his 30s living the life he had dreamed of’: artist Eric Ravilious
He was the first war artist to die on active service in the second world war – and one of the greatest. Now, a new film, featuring Alan Bennett and Ai Weiwei, uncovers his complicated life
On 2 September 1942, a plane on a search-and-rescue mission off the coast of Iceland crashed into the sea, killing its pilot and 39-year-old passenger. The passenger was Eric Ravilious, whose final letter to his wife, three days earlier, had extolled the deep shadows and leaflike cracks of the subarctic landscape. He was one of 300 artists hired by the War Artists Advisory Committee to cover the second world war, and the first to die on active service. […]
Claire Armitstead in The Guardian
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