Supercondriaque (2014)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Dany Boon (Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis)
	Actors: Dany Boon, Kad Merad, Alice Pol
	Country: F, B
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 21.02.2015, In-flight entertainment 10" screen.
Synopsis: Romain Faubert (Boon) is hypochondriac, one of the worst, and his friend/doctor Dimitri Zvenka (Merad) is the one suffering from it.
Review: An attempt by Dany Boon to repeat the success of Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis, but with moderated success only. The story seems original but the jokes and funny situations are quickly predictable and not so funny after all. But I was rather surprised by the turn of events at half the movie. Then it quickly becomes not believable, like in most French comedies. I laughed only a little, and I found Dany Boon to be too much in front of the camera and overdoing it, like he did on stage in his early days actually, while I though that in Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis he found a good balance and let himself play a second role.
Rating: 5 /10

Le Créateur (1999)

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	Year of first release: 1999
	Director: Albert Dupontel (Bernie)
	Actors: Claude Perron (Bernie), Albert Dupontel (Bernie, Serial Lover, L'ennemi intime), Philippe Uchan
	Country: F
	Genre: Black Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 24.02.2015, DVD, 11" computer screen.
Synopsis: Darius (Dupontel) wrote a very successful play and very much is expected from his second one. Unfortunately he forgot to write it.
Review: For a long time I wanted to watch this movie, since it is the one Albert Dupontel directed after Bernie that I loved. The style is easily recognizable: odd characters deeply obsessed with something, extreme close-up shots and twisted story. Unfortunately Le Créateur is not as good as Bernie was, mostly because of a slower rhythm. But this doesn't mean that it does not contain some crazy moments. Darius is in fact facing the cruel "blank page" syndrome, i.e. he has only a couple of days to write his new play, and can't even put down a word. He managed to write his first play by being constantly drunk for two weeks, but for that one he will need something even more radical. His violent and eccentric madness episodes are quite a treat! But as I said, often the scenes between the interesting ones are too long/slow, and don't fit too well with the rest. I can't speak about the image quality because the copy I was watching was just as bad as a VHS. Anyway, I would like to continue watching movies Albert Dupontel plays in, starting with La Maladie de Sachs, Enfermés dehors or the recent Neuf mois ferme, and I should watch again Bernie that I haven't enjoyed in a (too) long time.
Rating: 6 /10

Nadie quiere la noche (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Isabel Coixet
	Actors: Juliette Binoche, Kinko Kikuchi, Gabriel Byrne
	Country: E, F, BG
	Genre: Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 15.02.2015, Cinemaxx 7, Berlinale2015, Original English/Inuktikut version
Synopsis: Robert Peary, a polar explorer from the USA, is again on expedition to the North Pole. His wife, Josephine (Binoche), convinced to be able to follow him tries it and forces Robert Peary's colleagues to a dangerous journey as the winter is coming fast. One of them, Bram Trevor (Byrne) dies. On a base camp in Greenland she stops and decides to stay over the winter alone. But the young Inuit Allaka (Kikuchi) is also in the camp. Both women will then slowly come close to each other.
Review:  I wanted to watch this movie, incited by my polar friends, both the adventurers and the passionated. I just knew the plot and this sounds good. The story is dramatic, especially when both women understand that they are both waiting for the same man for the same reason of love. Additional steps enhance this drama that is solved for Allaka very fast and that is apparently solved for Josephine at the end only. The small things of the daily life of both women show that they are just not prepared especially Josephine. Unfortunately almost all the movie is shot in studios in Bulgaria. This damps substantially my enthusiasm. The acting is correct but sounds strange. Maybe the fact of not really living in the cold North. The few images taken from Norway to simulate Greenland are of relatively bad quality so that the beauty of the snow did not explode in my face as other documentaries. Maybe I had too many expectations because I saw already several movies, documentaries or not, on the polar regions, like Inuk and Chasing ice.
Rating: 4 /10

Camping 2 (2010)

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	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Fabien Onteniente (Camping, Disco, Jet Set)
	Actors:  Franck Dubosc, Mathilde Seigner, Claude Brasseur (La Boum), Richard Anconina (La vérité si je mens!1-3)
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 26.02.2015, DVD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: Patrick, Sophie, Laurette, Jacky.. are back to the "Camping des Flots Bleus", as every year, but some things have changed.
Review: The first Camping was displaying a group of French "Rednecks" (Beaufs) who meet every year at the same camping place on the coast, and the confrontation with an outsider (played at that time by Gerard Lanvin) who will in the end adopt their way. This time the same ingredients are used and Lanvin is replaced by Richard Anconina. As the effect of surprise is gone, we don't laugh anymore at the recurrent jokes of "On va boire l'apéro" or at seeing Dubosc in tight swimming suit all day long. If you liked the first movie, it is just pleasant to see the same characters again, but nothing more. The story is quite flat and predictable, and the conflicts quickly resolved.
Rating: 3 /10

Tell Spring not to come this year (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Saeed Tajik Farouki, Michael McEvoy
	Actors: -
	Country: GB, AFG
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 14.02.2015, Cinestar 3, Berlinale2015, Tadjik/Dari/Pachtun version with English subtitles
Synopsis: Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of deployment in Helmand without NATO support. It is an intimate film about the human side of combat, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that explores the deep personal motivations, desires and struggles of a band of fighting men on the front line. Without a NATO soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it.
Review: When I have seen in the Berlinale programm that this movie would come, I decided to watch it. Finally! Finally a point of view that is supposed not to be biaised by the pretentious Occidental point of viewon this war against the Talibans.  Indeed, we see the multicultural army, having at least 4 languages in the small group we follow. So a linguist in the Q&A with Michael McEvoy after the movie. During the whole movie I was wondering whether this was a fake or a real documentary. Because the image was perfectly controlled and stable, because the image composition was always good. The difficulty I see is more economic than political. The movie does present a picture of the situation, without giving any solution.  It is incredible that the soldiers speak so freely and actually they do not tell much against anybody, they just express their feeling about their country, their love for their country and their anger and despair in front of the situation. McEvoy had been a soldier and studied Media in the UK afterwards. Therefore he knew already many of the people who were then more open to talk to him. Great job!
Rating: 7 /10

The forbidden room (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
	Actors: Udo Kier, Matthieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Jacques Nolot, Geraldine Chaplin, Louis Negin
	Country: CDN
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 13.02.2015, Cubix 9, Berlinale2015, Original English version
Synopsis: Men in a sinking submarine look afraid .When they find aman coming into the submarine, they express their fears. Step by step we follow the chain of characters and fears.
Review: I wanted to watch this movie because Guy Maddin is a very particular director that I first watched in my Parisian times and like since then (The saddest music in the world, Brand upon the brain). As often in his movies, Guy Maddin tells a story extremely strange, full of mystery full of symbols reflecting the conscience or psychology of the characters but not only. Here we jump from story to story via the names the people know and possibly what they remember from their stories.  Guy Maddin uses black and white or sepia colours. With his so personal, mysterious cuts he elaborates an atmosphere where everything looks mysterious, suspect and interesting as well. The selection of actors is amazing. Many characters fits perfectly to the feelings theygive, especially via their facial expression. At the end of the movie, I could not say what it was about, but I had a very special experience that I would recommend to anyone.
Rating: 7 /10

The voice of water (2014)

	Also Known As: Mizu no koe o kiku
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Masashi Yamamoto
	Actors: Hyunri,
	Country: J
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 13.02.2015, Delphi Filmpalast, Berlinale2015, Original Japanese/Korean version with English subtitles
Synopsis: Minjon (Hyunri) is the priestess of a fake religion, the aim of which is to make money with. In the course of the movie, she starts to develop a conscience and an interest in her grandmother, who was a shaman back in Korea, which eventually leads to a clash with the other members of her "religion". And since her father owes money to the Yakuza, things become even more complicated.
Review: My train arriving a bit late to watch Yvy Maraey, a Bolivian movie in the section Native-Indigeneous cinema, I tried to sneak in Ten no chasuke but did not work as it is only for accredited press. It was a risky choice.  And finally the risk was there. the movie was very very long, and felt even longer! Apart from a critic of the sect, there is not much in the movie. No valuable acting, no valuable cinematography, no valuable story telling. I may have missed something. But Alex and Rudi, two usual festival goers, felt alike. I was even more angry to have missed Yvy Maraey
Rating: 1 /10

Boys don't cry (1999)

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	Year of first release: 1999
	Director: Kimberly Peirce
	Actors: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 16.02.2015, DVD, English version
Synopsis: Brandon Teena moves from Lincoln to a small town in Nebraska, where he becomes popular. He hangs out with the guys, drinking and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. And it's not that he's wanted in Texas for Grand Theft Auto and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon.
Review: I wanted to watch this movie after coming back from the Berlinale 2015, where many movies treated the homosexuality, in Vietnam, Thailand, USA, etc. This is the first movie I remember about it, here about lesbian.  Actually the story is very dramatic. The acting is ok. Chloe Sevigny is very convincing with her authenticity. Swank looks disturbed all the time, as if not feeling in the right place. As it does not fit to what the other characters say about her, it looks strange, but finally it was the case as an homosexual in the middle of heterosexual people.  Nevertheless the cinematography is very poor, the story telling has many ellipses that make it hard to follow the logic. And it is impressive to see how all say that Brandon is super cool when he just sits in the sofa looking at the others laughing. But well, this was not the purpose of the movie.  As the first emotional movie clearly about homosexuality (at least to me) the movie deserves a good rating, even if there is not so much good in the movie.
Rating: 6 /10

Biutiful (2010)

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	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
	Actors: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Cheikh Ndiaye
	Country: E, MEX
	Genre: Drama, Melodrama
	Conditions of visioning: 01.02.2015, Bluray, Original Spanish version
Synopsis: Uxbal (Bardem) is single father of two children. Being involved in the underground migration exploitation of Barcelona, being under pressure from the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother (Álvarez) of his children, his life turns to dramatic chaos when he is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Review: After having seen The Birdman, I wanted to watch again some work by Iñárritu. So I asked my buddies of the Schauburg sneak preview and we ended in selecting Biutiful. Biutiful shows the slow destruction of Uxbal and all what he has built in his life, family, security for his kids. shows a few realities behind the migration to Europe. It is not the first time that Iñárritu uses the topic of immigration (Babel) to create more empathy and thus enhance some emotions in the viewer such as compassion, anger, joy. This time all the story telling techniques are used to create emotions (e.g. children, family, illness, conflict with the police, religion, presentation of the main character as a saint). The cut is not original as it was in Amores Perros. The story telling and the cinematography are thus much more precise especially in the image composition. The few that is shown on the screen says a lot about what is out of image. And this is also very touching.
Rating: 7 /10

Whiplash (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Damien Chazelle
	Actors: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons
	Country: USA
	Genre: Music
	Conditions of visioning: 02.02.2015, Schauburg, OV sneak preview
Synopsis: A promising young drummer Andrew (Teller) enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor Fletcher (Simmons) who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Review: The story is good. It dramatizes the will of grandeur and the talent of noth teacher and drummer via their apparent conflict. I watched the movie with a mucisian friend and asked afterwards others and it seems that this story is not realistic at all, for many reasons. Unlike many big names of jazz, Armstrong, Davis, who grew their music in the streets, this jazz community is in a conservatory. The atmosphere in a conservatory is not of a never-ending competition, at least not in Germany nor in Italy but might be so in France. The music is amazing, full of energy. Some parts are mixed so that the drums are louder than it should be. This gives the focus on Andrew and moreover a lot fo energy to the movie. This energy alternates with the energy given by Simmons when he complains and gives a high tempo to the movie. The last scene is an apotheosis of the conflict both emotionally and musically.
Rating: 6 /10

District 9 (2009)

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	Year of first release: 2009
	Director: Neill Blomkamp (Elysium)
	Actors: Sharlto Copley (The A-team), David James, Jason Cope
	Country: USA, NZ, CDN, ZA
	Genre: SF, Action
	Conditions of visioning: 20.02.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: 20 years after an alien spaceship sets over Johannesbourg, the refugees that it contained cause more and more trouble with the local population.
Review: What a surprise it was back in 2008 to see this south African production by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), lead by a first-time movie director after his short on the same topic, and that did cost half what it would have if done by Hollywood. And this time, seven years later, I looked closely during the HD projection at the details of the special effects (creatures, weapons, ships) and they still look amazing. Like the first time I saw the movie, I still loved the different take at the alien invasion movie: they are not here to fight us but they are refugees, and have to be hosted not by the richest country in the world. But then although the structure of the movie is different, the end fulfills our expectations. This time more than before I notice the humour in the movie, often offbeat. I had already enjoyed the character of Wickus van der Merwe (his name, accent, behavior, stupid smile...) played by the then relatively unknown Sharlto Copley than we have since seen in Europa Report, The A-team or Elysium. I have now noticed many more details and character traits from secondary people: Wickus' father-in-law, his trainee, and in general all the humans working for an organization that is supposed to regulate alien activities but that treat them like dirt. There is a strong social message in District 9, as in Neill Bloomkamp next movie Elysium but that didn't work as well that time.
Rating: 9 /10

The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer)
	Actors: Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Emma Stone (Crazy, Stupid, Love), Jamie Foxx (Collateral)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 21.02.2015, In-flight entertainment 10" screen.
Synopsis: The masked super-hero is back, struggling in his love life in a world of villains all revolving around the Oscorp company.
Review: Already knowing the useless reboot The Amazing Spider-Man of an otherwise sympathetic franchise initiated by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead), I started to watch this sequel with strong prejudice. I quickly saw the usual Hollowood recent movies defaults of over-explaining (thieves open a crate of plutonium and the crate talks to them to explain that it is a dangerous material!), but then I could follow the movie like any other recent Action one. 2h20 feels stretched, but my main critic would be that the characters seem like trapped in Groundhog Day, repeating on and on a scenario that we have already seen. And I don't like that Spiderman jokes at everything he does. The story is better built than in the first movie, and the villain looks more serious, but his back-story is not credible. The design of Electro is partly borrowed from Watchmen's Mr Manhattan, except that when he materializes he wears nice black boxer shorts! Entertaining enough to watch on a long plane flight.
Rating: 5 /10

Noah (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Black Swan)
	Actors: Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream), Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs), Ray Winstone
	Country: USA
	Genre: Epic, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 14.02.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Last descendant of Seth, the third son of Adam, Noah (Crowe) has a vision that the end of the World is near and that he must help the innocents to survive.
Review: I was surprised to see that not many movies by Aronofsky are reviewed yet on this blog (except his first one: Pi) although I own them all in Blu-ray and liked them all (Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan), but I didn't watch them in the last two and a half years. Again, the director shows us an original story, or rather in that case a classic story told in an original way. To avoid the obvious questions like "where did Cain's wife come from?", or "what do those people eat if not God's creations (animal or vegetal)", the story is cleverly transposed to someplace that looks not quite like Earth, in particular I love the design idea that we see stars in the daylight sky. The design of the fallen angels is also interesting, almost looking like stop-motion. So the place is different and the people inhabiting it seem alien, but the themes are the old universal ones: family, love, honor, belief, hope, good and evil. And like in The Lord of the Rings, the promises of Industry and Technology threatens to lead the world into darkness. How actual. The actors are good, and it seems like the role of Noah was written for Russel Crowe as I haven't seen him so good since Gladiator. I enjoyed the rising tension until the Deluge that occurs unexpectedly at half-movie. Then things really slow down, and focus is even more on Noah's beliefs and his kind of early religious fanaticism. All in all I liked Noah, but I would preferred a slightly different structure and message. I am almost tempted to read the book that inspired the movie.
Rating: 7 /10

Mirrors (2008)

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	Year of first release: 2008
	Director: Alexandre Aja (The Hills have eyes)
	Actors: Kiefer Sutherland (24 TV-series), Paula Patton (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), Amy Smart
	Country: USA, F, D, E, RO
	Genre: Horror, Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 15.02.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: An ex-cop (Sutherland) and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Review: I didn't like so much Alexandre Aja's The Hills have Eyes, partly because I thought desertic landscapes didn't fit the survival genre, but then I have seen Wolf Creek that worked. I haven't seen the Asian original version of Mirrors from which this one was remade, but I guess that as often in this process the Westernisation, the movie has removed some length and non-credible characters. Indeed I liked the simplicity of this Mirrors revolving around the character of the former cop, well-played by Kiefer Sutherland at his best, although he reminds too much of Jack 24 Bauer at times (taking a Nun hostage!). The movie abuses a bit of jump-scared and ultra-graphical deaths, but that is what those kind of horror films are for. Maybe the best Horror Thriller I have seen recently.
Rating: 6 /10

Man on a Ledge (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Asger Leth
	Actors: Sam Worthington (Rogue, Avatar, Terminator 4), Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno), Jamie Bell (King Kong), Ed Harris (A History of Violence), William Sadler (Die Hard 2), Anthony Mackie (Captain America 2)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 15.02.2015, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Nick Cassidy (Worthington) was a cop sent to jail for supposedly stealing a huge diamond. When he shows up on a ledge ready to commit suicide, there could be more to it than despair.
Review: The story is rather original and introduced in a non-linear way which helped keeping my interest in the first 45 minutes at least.Who is this guy? Why was he sent to jail? Who are the bad cops? The character of the psychologist gives a counter-viewpoint, but the relationship with her co-workers is a bit overdone. And at some point the whole scheme with the brother of the main character becomes too unreal (including the girlfriend played by Genesis Rodriguez spending most her time showing her cleavage). And towards the end it becomes even less believable and even the special effects get weaker. During the rest of the movie the action on the ledge was otherwise well done. I was surprised to see so many known actors, not usual for a movie given to a first-time director.
Rating: 5 /10

Marnie (1964)

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	Year of first release: 1964
	Director: Alfred Hitchcock (Torn Curtain, Psycho)
	Actors: Tippi Hedren (The Birds), Sean Connery (Highlander), Martin Gabel
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 11.02.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Marnie Edgerd (Hedren) is a succesful thief in the world of insurance companies, until she gets noticed by Mark Rutland (Connery).
Review: The recent review of Sabotage reminded me that I have yet to finish watching the movies from the nice Hitchcock Blu-ray boxset I bought. But I fear that the ones left are not the best. Indeed this 50 years old Marnie looks very good for its age (like all movies in that boxset) and the cinematography is beautiful (the way the scenes are shot), as are the editing and the actors direction. But, like I already commented about some of the Master's films (see Vertigo, Topaz or The Man who knew too Much), a rather simple story takes a bit too much time to develop, until the conclusion quickly wrapped. I thought that the trend for 2-hours long movies started in the years 2000, but it seems Alfred had anticipated that, and I found Marnie 30 minutes too long. Not that I was really bored but not interested either. Hedren and Connery show that they are good actors during interminable dialog scenes, but in the end the stakes didn't seem to justify the rest of the story. And the advertised "Sex Mystery" only refers to the odd situation of that man marrying that (decent) girl and using his knowledge of her activities as leverage to get what he want (sex, although it is never mentioned explicitly and he never gets it), which I guess could have been a disturbing concept in the 60's. A brave attempts at showing something different, but unfortunately not very interesting to watch nowadays.
Rating: 4 /10

The Angel's Share (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Ken Loach (Looking for Eric)
	Actors: Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw (Red Riding: in the year of our Lord 1974/1983), Roger Allam
	Country: GB, B, F, I
	Genre: Drama, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 07.02.2015, SD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Condemned to hours of social work, a group of misfits discover the pleasures of Whiskey tasting.
Review: I liked Ken Loach's Looking for Eric, and didn't know what to expect form this one. Well, you get the same social misery, and very down-to-Earth people speaking English (Scottish actually) with an accent I could barely follow. But then you also get the main message which is that one can get out of the infernal circle of poverty (basically following the footsteps of one's father), maybe not in the most noble (or legal) way, but you can do it if you have the will. And the touching main character that we follow (Robbie) finds the strength to change his fate (and become a good father) against all odds: no money, no job, life-long enemies everywhere, no skills (only apparently), no prospect to go anywhere. A nice lesson. I don't rate the movie better because apart from the good development of the aforementioned message the rest of the story, side characters, dialogs... have nothing in particular.
Rating: 6 /10

Labyrinth (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Christopher Smith (Severance, Creep, Triangle, Black Death)
	Actors: John Hurt (V for Vendetta, Alien), Tom Felton (Harry Potter 1-8, Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Jessica Brown Findlay
	Country: GB, D, ZA, CZ
	Genre: Fatasy, Drama, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 07.02.2015, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The series follows two women: medieval Alaïs Pelletier du Mas (Findlay), who lives through the Crusades and Cathar massacres in medieval France, and modern-day Alice Tanner.
Review: A short TV-series adapted from a best-seller. The story is built around the true events of the Crusade against the Cathar (a minority religious branch from Catholicism) around Carcassonne in 1209, and it adds to them a fantasy parallel story and a contemporary counterpart. The series take slowly the time to develop the characters and locations, too slowly sometimes one could say. It was important to have more than two hours to tell this story properly, but three hours is maybe too stretched. But apart from that criticism, I liked the series. The story is interesting although reminding ta it of The Da Vinci Code, and it is very good-looking for a TV-series (or even for a movie) thanks to shooting on beautiful locations around the fortified cities in the south of France, a comfortable budget, and the presence of a movie director: Christopher Smith from whom I know the previous work. And I definitely liked Labyrinth better than his previous Black Death. The costume design is good, the (few) battles impressive and the modern shots nothing to complain about. Most of the cast is good (except for Claudia Gerini overplaying a little the power-thirsty evil woman), and special mention has to be made of Tom Felton (Harry Potter's Malfoy) invested in his role, and John Hurt quite at ease.
Rating: 6 /10