Movies / Series

Sleeper hit of the fall of 2011 on Canal +, the Borgia series, co-produced by the French channel and created by Tom Fontana, sees its competitor, The Borgias (Neil Jordan), land on GST at the beginning of 2012. The opportunity to compare the two series, their way of telling this exciting time at the crossroads between the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and especially their approach to this family have become so legendary that the Borgias. Plot, great respect for history, differences between the characters ... Verdict?

Released directly on DVD on ¹ April 2011 without going through the box cinema in France, Black Death directed by Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance) is reminiscent of the Witch, projected onto our screens in January of that year : a story of the witch hunt in an England plagued by terrifying plague. While films about the medieval period are rarely quality, what about this little production remained very limited in the hexagon? Surprise, surprise ...

Adapted from a novel to the success of the young British writer Rosemary Sutcliffe, published in 1954, The Eagle of the Ninth Legion takes us in search of a Roman centurion and his slave in England in the ^second century AD. Focusing on human relationships and the beauty of natural scenery to action Gross, director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) delivers a stunning film by any holder of a political reflection. Brilliant at times, disappointing to others.

During the tragic events of Nanjing (1937), a German, John Rabe, played a major role in trying to protect some 200 000 Chinese Japanese atrocities. German director Florian Gallenberger - Oscar for best short film in 2001 - gives us a valuable record of the life of this man, unknown in Europe, but celebrated as a hero in China. A man who was also a member of the Nazi Party.

We know Hollywood movies generally disrespectful of the truth especially when addressing historical periods like the Middle Ages. Season of the Witch directed by Dominic Sena is no exception. On the contrary, he takes us on a fantastic film oscillating between horror and fantasy devoid of any Templar.

The famous book by Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth, has been adapted into television mini-series, the only format capable of making a minimum justice to the magnitude of the historical novel. It is not by comparing the book and the series, but only to give our opinion on it. The time is it well made in terms of history? The story and characters prove they exciting? Is it simply a good series of historical fiction?

After "Glory," Rachid Bouchareb returns with an even more controversial film, "Outside the Law." While there had been discussion to its previous, the film itself but also on the statements of the team during the promotion, it seems that for "Outside the Law" the malaise is deeper. We had to wait to try out his piece on "Outside the Law" is it a historical film in every sense of the term?

On July 26, 2010, the Khmer Rouge torturer Duch was condemned by the international justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity for the atrocities that took place in Cambodia in the mid-seventies. The French-Cambodian documentary, S21 - The Machine The Khmer Rouge Death, directed by Rithy Panh in 2003, proposes to return to the place of disaster systematic extermination of opponents and still retains all his suffering and his story.

1954, in the muggy heat and stifling of March, a handful of French soldiers exhausted back a Tonkinese River. An explosion! The gunner collapsed, wine and water ... The bullets raise sprays of water, the response is immediate, the top element opens fire on the sniper, the jungle becomes silent. Everything goes very fast, the Doc is already on the gun and finds his death, powerless. We get the machine gun, ammunition, death in the soul the body is trapped and the mad rush again. A race for life, by Northwest, in the hostile jungle where each root can hide a trap, every tree an enemy ... Wiping a cuffs dripping sweat on their foreheads, the survivors back from the steep slopes trough, off an explosion resounds: a Vietminh has certainly jumped trapped with the corpse of their comrade. "Cut! "The camera catching their breath, the sound man is his pole: Welcome to the filming of" The section lost. "

Here is a film to say the least singular, as disturbing as subtle as having raised the membership that the rejection by the public. Without revealing the plot and message, we will try to make this work so special that redefine some notions of cinema, currently locked in a certain monotony imposed by profitability. The Valhalla Rising, according to its original title is any case a shock to the viewer.

Taking the "epic fantasy" of the same name made ​​in 1981 by Desmond Davis' Clash of the Titans "immerses the viewer in 2 hours of great Hollywood spectacle in 3D! But behind this big-budget production and recovery of the hero Perseus do not we see a need for our society, like the former, use the myth to externalize their deepest questions?