Film

Lincoln (2012)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis

After a few years of (relative) inactivity, Steven Spielberg is restaking his claim as the Busiest Man in Showbiz by churning out three in a row: ‘Tintin’ in October 2011, ‘War Horse’ in January 2012, and this biopic of the great American president, due at the end of 2012 (and that’s without mentioning his upcoming sci-fi actioner ‘Robopocalypse’, set for a summer 2013 premiere). But don’t expect a sprawling, ‘Amistad’-style historical epic: rather than trying to cram an entire, hugely eventful life into a single movie, ‘Lincoln’ will focus on the president during the closing months of the Civil War – which also proved to be the last months of his life. Daniel Day Lewis has been dragged out of retirement (again!) to play the title role, while able support is provided by the likes of Joseph Gordon Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Jackie Earl Haley and some other, less important people with only two names.