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The Great Man

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At the end of their posting in Afghanistan, French Legionnaires Markov and Hamilton track a leopard until an ambush causes an abdication of duty.

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Ben Sachs Chicago Reader The characters are nicely written and performed and writer-director Sarah Leonor demonstrates an assured, literary sense of time passing. Yet the film is constricted by its narrow tonal range; everything unfolds in the same blandly naturalistic register. Nov 19, 2015 Full Review Peter Keough Boston Globe It takes a woman to make a great film about the all-male bastion of the French Foreign Legion. Rated: 3.5/4 Sep 3, 2015 Full Review Manohla Dargis New York Times Swells of emotion seep in like low-rolling fog and suddenly you are watching a drama about real people wrestling with life blow by blow. Aug 13, 2015 Full Review Forrest Cardamenis The Film Stage The Great Man is enjoyable in part because its characters are well-defined without obviously taking the story in one direction or another. Rated: B- Feb 23, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I was invited to the showing and the following Q&A session with the director, daughter of a friend. I did not know what to expect, except legionairs and afghanistan. The film was enjoyable, oddly so. Interesting insight to the life and code of legionairs and the life of illegal immigrants in France. According to the legionairs' code it is a worse crime to leave behind your weapon than your dying brother in arms. who knew. What I did know was that French audience is picky and they are not afraid to make their opinions known to the director or anyone else for that matter. And they love their voice and make a point of saying something, even if there is no point in what they say. We left after an hour into the Q&A, as it was 11pm... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis At the end of their posting in Afghanistan, French Legionnaires Markov and Hamilton track a leopard until an ambush causes an abdication of duty.
Director
Sarah Petit
Producer
Michel Klein
Screenwriter
Emmanuelle Jacob, Sarah Petit
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 17, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA)
$7.2K
Runtime
1h 47m
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