As for a lot of British people, Dunkirk is a story I grew up with in its mythic, almost fairy-tale form. It’s been in me, and in my bones, for a very long time. About 20 years ago, in the middle of production on my first film, Following, my producer (and future wife), Emma Thomas, and I went with a friend on his small sailing boat across the Channel to Dunkirk at about the same time of year as the
