By November 2016, Darkest Hour had begun principal photography,[18] and it was reported that Dario Marianelli would score the film.[19] For his role as Churchill, Oldman spent over 200 hours having make-up applied, and smoked over 400 cigars (worth about $20,000) during filming.[20][4] Filming took place in Manchester, England, at both the Town Hall and John Rylands Library, both doubling for the Houses of Parliament and featuring heavily in the film.[21]
The abortion always will be my darkest hour. The good news is that I no longer give in to despair. I still cry and grieve, but through the grace of our Lord, I now feel hope and peace. God is truly awesome! Even from something so depraved, He can work miracles. I am so blessed to be showered with His mercy and forgiveness. I take refuge in His Sacred Heart. It has taken several years but I am on the road to healing.
Darkest Hour excels whenever Wright isolates Churchill in suffocating spaces where he seeks counsel from those in his inner circle, but mostly has to marinate in crisis. The film is particularly good at showing how information about the hour-by-hour fates of thousands is filtered down to Churchill in a way that makes his decisions seem more abstract, because he cannot bear witness to the history he's so crucial in shaping. The big Dunkirk speech may be a lesson in the power of rhetoric, but in context, it sounds more like a wish cast from darkness, beating back the uncertainties that linger behind the text.
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