Le Pacte des loups
Réalisation:
Christophe GansPhotographie:
Dan LaustsenMusique:
Joseph LoDucaActeurs·trices:
Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Jérémie Renier, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jacques Perrin, Philippe Nahon, Virginie Darmon (plus)VOD (3)
Résumés(1)
En 1766, une bête mystérieuse sévit dans les montagnes du Gévaudan et fait de nombreuses victimes, sans que quiconque puisse l'identifier ou la tuer. Les gens ont peur. C'est un monstre surgi de l'enfer ou une punition de Dieu. L'affaire prend rapidement une dimension nationale et porte atteinte à l'autorité du Roi. Le chevalier Grégoire De Fronsac, naturaliste de surcroît, est alors envoyé dans la région du Gévaudan pour dresser le portrait de la bête. Bel esprit, frivole et rationnel, il est accompagné de l'étrange et taciturne Mani, un indien de la tribu des Mohawks. Ces derniers s'installent chez le Marquis Thomas d'Apcher. Au cours d'une soirée donnée en son honneur, Fronsac fait la connaissance de Marianne De Morangias ainsi que de son frère Jean-François, héritiers de la plus influente famille du pays. Fronsac se heurte bientôt à l'animosité des personnages influents de la région. (Metropolitan FilmExport)
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Critiques (4)
The Brotherhood of Wolves is a type of French blockbuster movie that attempts to resemble overseas blockbusters with its colorful plot, exteriors, and action elements, and it succeeds fairly well. It is necessary to highlight the excellent camera work, dynamic action, romantic exteriors, and decent visual effects. What falls behind is the screenplay, which clearly doesn't pay too much attention to the logic of the plot on screen and a whole range of significant details. The Native American and his European friend use East Asian martial arts, and the monster on screen seems more like an intrusion from another genre. Nevertheless, it is enjoyable to watch and the viewer isn't bored for a moment. Overall impression: 50%.
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In the competition for the most botched theme, Gans wins the prepared wolf plague. The sad thing is, because of how exciting and well-built this film can be at times, it's not properly funny in other places. The alternation of the torn action plane with a dark drama about the coming change of order is simply like drunk regulars in a cheap Hamburg tavern. There should be less kung-fu, less Vinnetou, and more spoiled sophistication, like the realia and the magnificent Cassel bring to the film. The idea seems brilliant to me, the processing burned like a cheap burger at a booth.
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Undoubtedly, the film’s assets include Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci’s performance, as well as the fact that at certain moments I watched it with a kind of perverse joy. That’s it, however, in terms of the positives. It was basically a hodgepodge of various genres, which was neither here nor there. It would have been worth only one star, but another one goes to Monica Bellucci...
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Another French attempt to make a film in a Hollywood package, but this time it got out of hand. The result is a mess, with a monster like in Predator, a victim caught like in Jaws, love, sex, kung fu (in 17th century France !!), an Indian, a mutant villain, etc. It's terrible crap, but I have to say I wasn't bored.
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