Jacquou le croquant (2007)

Note Générale:

6,6/10   

Réalisateur:

Laurent Boutonnat

Scénariste:

Eugène Le Roy (novel)

Date de sortie:

17 janvier 2007 (Belgium)

Genre:

Aventure | Drame

Plot Keywords:

Périgord | Remake | Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Récompenses:

2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

A motion picture with no story but with beautiful photography

Ensemble

Gaspard Ulliel	...	Jacquou adulte
Léo Legrand	...	Jacquou enfant
Marie-Josée Croze	...	La mère de Jacquou
Albert Dupontel	...	Le père de Jacquou
Tchéky Karyo	...	Le chevalier
Olivier Gourmet	...	Le curé Bonal
Jocelyn Quivrin	...	Le comte de Nansac
Malik Zidi	...	Touffu
Gérald Thomassin	...	Le bigleux
Judith Davis	...	Lina
Bojana Panic	...	La galiote
Dora Doll	...	Fantille
Jérôme Kircher	...	L'avocat
Vincent Valladon	...	Touffu 10 ans
Elliott Valence	...	Le bigleux à 10 ans

Durée:

France:140 min | Argentina:140 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Classification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M

Lieux de tournage:

Bucharest, Romania

Société:

Pathé Renn Productions

Connexions:

Remake de "Jacquou le croquant" (1969)

Bande son:

Devant soi

A motion picture with no story but with beautiful photography

I had the memory of a "Jacquou Le Croquant", hero of a TV mini-series of my childhood, who had lost his parents by the fault of an aristocrat and more generally because of the post-Napoleonean social classes system, and who came to a revenge by leading a revolt especially against that social system and against the man which incarnates the cause of the tragedy of his family. On the basis of that, one expects to see a social fresco full of various emotions that goes along with the rich History of France of that period: tragedy, love, revenge, popular revolt (revolution against the established order), freedom seeking, and other great emotions which accompany this kind of epic stories… But it is not the case.

The narration is too slow and really insipid. The actors are just as pale as the story and its rhythm. What a waist for such a beautifully photographed picture! If one can afford to see Laurent Boutonnat's version of "Jacquou" is solely because it's good-looking at. Costumes and the decoration are really really superb! The director definitely is a good director of photography, and even a good soundtrack composer but certainly not a storyteller, definitely not a director.