Une minute de silence (1998)

Note Générale:

5,6/10   

Réalisateur:

Florent Emilio Siri

Scénariste:

Florent Emilio Siri (writer)

Date de sortie:

25 novembre 1998 (France)

Genre:

Drame

Récompenses:

1 win

Avis des utilisateurs:

A Germinal for our times?

Ensemble

Benoît Magimel	...	Marek
Bruno Putzulu	...	Mimmo
Jean-Yves Chatelais	...	Stanis, Mark's uncle
Andrea Schieffer	...	The journalist
Alexander May	...	Freddy
Eric Savin	...	Tony
Olivier Parenty	...	Spitz
Pierre Martot	...	Frantz
Kader Boukhanef	...	Ibrahim
Florence Giorgetti	...	Cabaret woman
André Marcon	...	Snack owner
Rüdiger Vogler	...	Jäger

Autre(s) titre(s):

Dérapages (France) (working title)

Durée:

88 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français | Polonais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Dolby SR

Classification:

France:U

Lieux de tournage:

Merlebach, Freyming-Merlebach, Moselle, France

Société:

Canal+

A Germinal for our times?

A hundred years time after Emile Zola and his Germinal ,a page has been turned.There are no more miners in France."Une minute de silence" depicts the last moments of a mine in Merlebach.Some things have not changed:everything belongs to the mine,including the one-eyed's cafe.

The director was heavily influenced by Kenneth Loach whose shade hangs over the whole movie.But not for the best:The only thing the script writers seem to have learned from the English artist is a loose plot,and in spite of some good actors,such as Bruno Pulutzu,de la comedy française,the movie never really takes off.Unlike Loach's characters these ones are not really endearing and we do not really care about them.The "minute of silence" -which gives the movie its title is a good trick,which might allow the viewers to make some dough,provided their friends did not see the movie,but the connection with the movie escapes me,I fear.Of course,when somebody dies (or something:here,the mines),the minute of silence is de rigueur.But the metaphor is ponderous it's the least we can say.