Director: Clovis Cornillac
Cast: Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Olivier Gourmet
Premiere: January 3, 2024
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Adaptation from the second novel Pierre Lemaitre’s interwar trilogy‘Colors of Fire’ contains a lot of material from the French author’s narration, but it lacks something that would provide its flavor and atmosphere, although Lemaitre personally signed the script and dialogues. The film’s director, Clovis Cornillac, who is also an actor, has worked more in comedy than drama, playing the irreducible Gaul Asterix in ‘Asterix at the Olympic Games’, and somehow gets lost in the labyrinths of the film. ambitious conspiracyand when he finds the tone he makes it extremely gentle and transparent.
framed between Effects of the 1928 world economic crisis and Hitler’s rise to power The film, which takes place in Germany in 1934, focuses on an event. legal revenge storyA crime committed by the heir to a financial empire against those who destroyed him. The film opens with a long sequence of shots of the family mansion, intended to show the magnificence of their possessions. This is the funeral of the protagonist’s father, but it also records the suicide attempt of his young son. Revenge, passion for lyrical music, the story of singer Solange, corruption in the bank, industrial ambitions, intrigue and blackmail, an adventure against time in the Berlin of the Third Reich… Many elements that are not always well put together, this It’s a very fun set in design.