βBattlegroundβ Review: The Cure is Often Worse Than the Disease in a Turgid WWI Medical Drama
1918 in Italy was, a title reminds us, βthe year of victory.β Yet the first images in Gianni Amelioβs WWI-set βBattlegroundβ are anything but triumphal: a pile of bloodied soldiersβ bodies glinting wetly in the moonlight; a scavenger pilfering the wallets of the dead; a blanket thrown over a survivor whose gibbering shellshock makes him [β¦]