Fort Saganne

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Audience Member Depardieu is relentlessly heroic yet typical at the same time; Marceau is lovely in an early role; Deneuve is lovely and game for her slightly emotionally unhinged character; clearly an atypical relatively high budget film Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Une épopée filmée à la française (donc c'est un peu "lent" et cela se finit mal...). Les images du désert sont finalement plus puissantes qu'une histoire à laquelle, par moment, on ne croit plus vraiment. La mise en perspective de la "charge dans le désert" avec "la charge dans les tranchées" est par contre saisissante (et réussie). Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member French soldier Gérard Depardieu rises through the ranks by displaying valor and ingenuity in battling Algerian rebels (and other French officers) just before WWI, while getting caught up in a romantic triangle involving heiress Sophie Marceau and free-thinking journalist Catherine Deneuve. Leisurely paced epic boasts gorgeous cinematography by Bruno Nuytten and an exquisite score by Philippe Sarde (both marvelously preserved in this DVD), but despite incidental moments of power, film as a whole is rather inert. I'm probably being too lenient, but you know I'm a sucker for French historical epics Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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