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Gueules Noires (2023)

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Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)

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Le pacte des Loups (2001) - Réalisateur: Christophe GANS

Avec Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Emilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Bernard Farcy, Jean-François Stévenin, Jérémy Rennier, les regrettés Jean Yanne et Philippe Nahon

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It's been 15+ years since the last time I watched this movie.

Inspired by a true event; this movie has a supernatural twist, intrigued politics and action all mixed in together.

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Capitaine Conan / Captain Conan Bertrand Tavernier. 1996

Army Brancoveanu's Palace, DJ711A, Potlogi 137370, Romania See in map

See in imdb

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Brotherhood of the Wolf [Le Pacte des loups] (2001)

Never bring weird scissor-knives to a martial arts fight.  It’s not gonna end well.  Jazzing up period films with heightened elements is commonplace, from the Valley Girl poppy excesses of Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette to the fantastical elements of Troy.  Christophe Gans, however, leans fully into indulgence with this accounting of La Bête du Gévaudan.  This creature is shrouded in mystery and speculation, something this version exploits to the last, and to great effect.  Even before the beast is mentioned explicitly, this is a world of excess, the camera speed-ramping for both wild martial arts stunts and mundane events like birds in flight.  It travels hazily through brothels and hallucinates with delirious men lying in bed.  If the province is experiencing a collective fever dream with these attacks, the visual language only feeds into that frenzy.  But there is help: naturalist Grégoire and his companion Mani arrive on the scene ready to investigate the beast and end its reign of terror.  They emerge in the rain, mysterious and cool, faces covered in leather collars as they dispatch a group of ruffians.  And Mani is always willing to put his money where his mouth is in terms of putting would-be challengers in their place.  Not even pumpkins are safe.  Taken as a pure action flick, it’s über-stylized fare, clearly influenced by The Matrix, but never derivative of it.  When the film completely derails its plot just so Mani can beat the shit out of a growing mob of challengers, the only problem is that the scene isn’t ten minutes longer.  And the beast, well.  Perhaps it was best to have kept it more in the shadows.  The silhouette is menacing in the moonlight and darkness of a mountain pass, but put it into the lamplight of a country home and… eesh.  The image of the beast and its minder silhouetted against the night sky is effective and its fate manages a touch of poignancy, but in the interc3eding scenes there are some real reminders of the limitations of early 2000s CGI.  

But the film isn’t simply a monster hunter flick, or even just an extended episode of Scooby Doo.  The people of Gévaudan are in a frenzy and the ruling class all too eager to exploit the situation for their own personal gain in some form or other.  What emerges is a grand conspiracy of the bourgeois seeking to keep the king in line and serve the Greater Good, or their own personal version of that, a cabal of wolves in sheep’s clothing.  Even from the start the film cheekily telegraphs its final plotting.  Grégoire’s fur-bearing trout cryptid foreshadows the idea that people will create beasts to serve their own purposes, and Jean-François’ run-in with a lion in Africa proves advantageous on many fronts. All I can say is that if Monica Bellucci (immediately clocked for her Italian accent as a giveaway) is some sort of papal assassin, well, you can poison me as much as you like. 

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says ‘beast’.

Camera speed ramps.

Wolves howling.

A crucifix appears onscreen.

BIG DRINK

Grégoire sketches.

Pumpkin assassination.

Gross hand stuff.

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Mais podre que o rio Sena: o trash francês "The deep dark", de 2023

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Place au cinéma Trois couleurs : Rouge

Valentine, étudiante à Genève et mannequin à ses heures, passe son temps à attendre les appels téléphoniques de son petit ami, Michel, qui vit en Angleterre. Auguste, son voisin, épris de la douce ...

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Gueules noires (Спуск в бездну) (Шахтеры)(Черные лица)

Непоганий фільм, що поєднує трохи соціальної драми про шахтарів, і фільм жахів у стилі "Чужого",

Професор найняв групу шахтарів, щоб пошукати щось у шахті "Дім Диявола".

На їхній жаль, вони знайшли те, що шукали.

Хороший акторський склад.

Цікаве завершення трилогії про клаустрофобію.

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Esce in Francia il 29 novembre l'horror francese Gueules Noires, che unisce alla claustrofobia della miniera la scoperta di un mostro affamato di carne umana, che rimanda direttamente a Lovecraft.

"Ogni giorno scendo all'inferno", canticchia il minatore nel trailer del film horror francese Gueules Noires. E cosa può esserci di più claustrofobico e terrificante del trovarsi bloccati nelle profondità della terra con un mostro affamato di carne umana? Questa è la premessa del film, ambientato nella Francia del Nord nel 1956, quando le attività minerarie erano ancora floride e gli incidenti purtroppo capitavano spesso, anche senza creature mostruose in agguato..

Il titolo, Gueules Noires, si riferisce alle facce sporche di carbone dei minatori, protagonisti e vittime di questo film che ci porta nelle viscere della terra dove incontreranno una misteriosa creatura, che ricorda volutamente gli incubi lovecraftiani. Questa la trama ufficiale: "Un gruppo di minatori è costretto ad accompagnare un professore a prelevare dei campioni un chilometro sotto terra. Dopo che una frana impedisce loro di risalire, scoprono una cripta di un'altra epoca, e involontariamente risvegliano qualcosa che avrebbe dovuto restare addormentato". Nel cast ci sono Samuel Le Bihan, Amir El Kacem, Thomas Solivérès, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Marc Riso, Bruno Sanches, Diego Martin e Philippe Torreton.

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Gueules Noires (2023) Date de sortie : 29/11/2023 Réalisateur : Mathieu Turi Scénario :  Mathieu Turi Avec : Samuel Le Bihan, Amir El Kacem, Thomas Solivérès

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