During the first world War, Tommo and Charlie, two young courageous brothers, who live in the small town, where they fall in love with the same girl, Molly, a young beautiful girl, do their best and struggle against survival in the destructive war, where they lose their best friends and relatives in front of their eyes.
The filmmakers tell this World War I story beautifully, but they never quite bring it to life as a proper movie. By taking a gently simplistic approach, it never feels like anything new as it deals with the usual topics of battlefield camaraderie.
By modestly embracing its inherent minimalism and finding the emotions underlying even the most schematic of scenarios, the film taps into something unmistakably human.
Melancholy runs deep in "Private Peaceful," a richly appointed British period piece about fraternal loyalty adapted from the book of the same name by "War Horse" author Michael Morpurgo.