TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
Director: James Kent
Cert: 12A 129 mins
There are many reasons for seeing this film, even for merely occasional cinema-goers like myself.
Leaving us sometimes speechless but not tearless, it provides a welcome alternative to the military-shaped focus of the seemingly endless WWI centenaries. It reminds a new generation of Vera Brittain, a remarkable Christian woman ( in her day, 1893-1970, we would have said ‘lady’). If they ask ‘who?’, we can add that Baroness Shirley Williams is her daughter.
