Labyrinth (2012)

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	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