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Steven SpielbergPhotographie:
Janusz KaminskiMusique:
John WilliamsActeurs·trices:
Jeremy Irvine, David Thewlis, Emily Watson, Tom Hiddleston, David Kross, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Patrick Kennedy (plus)VOD (3)
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De la magnifique campagne anglaise aux contrées d’une Europe plongée en pleine Première Guerre Mondiale, "Cheval de guerre" raconte l’amitié exceptionnelle qui unit un jeune homme, Albert, et le cheval qu’il a dressé, Joey. Séparés aux premières heures du conflit, l’histoire suit l’extraordinaire périple du cheval alors que de son côté Albert va tout faire pour le retrouver. Joey, animal hors du commun, va changer la vie de tous ceux dont il croisera la route: soldats de la cavalerie britannique, combattants allemands, et même un fermier français et sa petite-fille… (Walt Disney Company France)
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Regard nostalgique sur la phase la plus poignante du cinéma. Voici de la poésie filmique pour ceux qui se souviennent – peut-être la dernière du genre. Avec une vingtaine de minutes en moins, ç’aurait été l’un des meilleurs opus de Spielberg. Le fait que ce soit l’une de ses réalisations les plus personnelles se ressent dans toutes les scènes.
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A film about love, goodness and horses, in which the Great War also looks many times more pathetic and moralistic than in all of the anti-war pamphlets of the 1920s and 1930s. Paradoxically, this is not a problem at all - the main drawback of this captivating spectacle is Spielberg's absolute fondness for the surface. Everything inner and psychological disappears from the shots - everything is taken over by a rich visual arrangement. People and horses are explicitly props in the creator's professorial exhibition. Moments of emotion always and again come across the same thing - it's not the human (horse) story that impresses us, it's rather the respectable audiovisual construction, under which (unlike Steven's famous films) there is nothing at all, just a genre vacuum. This is simply not enough for a fairy tale, which War Horse is more than anything else.
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At times a colorful children's book, at times the hell of war, and at times an odyssey. Steven Spielberg, with somewhat of a sure bet, knows how to surprise you, and although the thoroughness or interconnectedness of the individual episodes sometimes stumbled heavily, I still have to nod approvingly despite my slight reservations. Considering how grandiose and, unfortunately, slightly prolonged the film War Horse feels as a result, it probably couldn't have been aimed more precisely. There are too many characters and moods here, and the plot either needed to be shortened by a third or stretched by an hour. The positive resonance resounds the loudest thanks to John Williams' amazing main theme and a few touching moments, against which there can be no defense.
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A much more unbearable film than I could have ever expected. Technically speaking, it’s good, of course, but the dialogues are a pain to listen to, the main characters are unlikeable (all of them, and the main teenage redneck most of all), the story is driven by either chance or the stupidity of the characters, and the whole lot is so awfully pathetic and kitsch that it made my head spin. I think the world around us is full of better stories and I don’t understand why anyone should care whether one mare will be reunited with an unlikeable young guy or not. And, if the animal in this film intentionally and consciously (!!!) sacrifices itself in order to help its friend, and people actually believe it and are moved by it… something is bloody wrong in this world. It’s been long since something pissed me off so much. Two stars for the technical aspect, but unfortunately, Spielberg is no longer guarantee of quality mainstream entertainment.
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This is going against the flow a little, but my problem with Warhorse isn’t that it’s a “chintzy Hollywood Spielbergesque tearjerker", but that in the end it isn’t like that at all. But that’s what it’s trying to be; too much, in fact; it is made like that but in its core it lacks the foundation to all movies like this - emotions. The bond between Albert and Joey is so slap-dash; it is ground up into mini-stories that blend into one; in the end I didn’t give a damn about either of them or about the movie either. And the movie should either have been much shorter (and just about those two) or should have been a regular mini-series, where each episode could tell one of the ten-minute escapades we see here.
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