UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15474064
Format:
1 DVD-Video (95 Min.)
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DD/5.1
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16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Content:
With its French countryside setting and troubling activities taking place on a farming estate with evident tension and divisions between the owners and their North African servants, Laurent Achard's 2006 film The Last of the Crazy People (Le dernier des fous) has inevitably been compared to Michael Haneke's Hidden, made the previous year. Seen through the eyes of a young 10 year-old boy growing up in this unstable environment however, Achard tries to take in a wider look at prejudice and corruption, as well as social divisions, touching on religion and sexuality in a manner that is closer in theme to Buñuel's El or Viridiana... There̷s a grim inevitability to how events will play out in The Last of the Crazy People that is evident from the first frame and is evident throughout written on the face of the marvellous young protagonist, Martin. Laurent Achard sustains the intensity of the broken family situation well, bringing in other social aspects relevant to France (the setting of the original source novel by Timothy Findley is Canadian) and seeing the film through to its dramatic conclusion. Peccadillo's presentation of this intriguing film is just fine. (the Digital Fix)
Note:
Ländercode: 2
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Orig.: Frankreich, 2008
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Engl. Untertitel
Language:
French
Author information:
Findley, Timothy
