Sa majesté Minor (2007)

Réalisateur:

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writers:

Sandro Agenor (screenplay)
Gérard Brach (writer)

Release Date:

10 octobre 2007 (France)

Genre:

Comedie | Fantasy

Plot:

Described as a mythical comedy set on an island in the Aegean Sea before the founding of Ancient Greece. |

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Nudity | King | Human Animal Relationship | Orphan

Avis des utilisateurs:

Enjoyable, highly original but falls short of fantastic

Ensemble

José Garcia	...	Minor
Vincent Cassel	...	Satyre
Sergio Peris-Mencheta	...	Karkos
Mélanie Bernier	...	Clytia
Claude Brasseur	...	Firos
Rufus	...	Rectus
Jean-Luc Bideau	...	Archeo
Taïra	...	Zima - La bouchère (as Taïra Borée)
Marc Andréoni	...	Zo - le boucher
Bernard Haller	...	Cataractos, le devin
Alice Frémont	...	Prunios - La vestale
Rosine Favey	...	Kinema - la pythie
Pedro Casablanc	...	Kryton, l'architecte
Guillaume Delaunay	...	Le centaure
Juana Cordero	...	Aura
Javier Aller	...	Tikus
José Alias	...	Pitygaz
Aïtana Novau	...	Une nymphe
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Javier Botet	...	Abrak

Réalisé par
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Sandro Agenor		screenplay
Gérard Brach		writer

Produit par
Jean-Jacques Annaud	....	producer
Xavier Castano	....	producer
Jaume Roures	....	co-producer
Fernando Victoria de Lecea	....	line producer

Musique originale
Javier Navarrete

Image
Jean-Marie Dreujou		(director of photography)

Montage
Noëlle Boisson

Distribution des rôles
Nathalie Cheron

Création des décors
Pierre Queffelean

Création des costumes
Pierre-Yves Gayraud

Maquillage
Dominique Colladant	....	hair stylist
Dominique Colladant	....	makeup designer
Nicolas Herlin	....	special makeup effects artist
Silvie Imbert	....	temporary makeup artist
Leticia Ruiz	....	makeup artist

Directeur de production
Ramón Alonso	....	assistant production manager
Naoufel Ben Youssef	....	production manager
Nathalie Chery	....	assistant unit manager
Olivier Hélie	....	production supervisor

Assistant réalisateur
Alain Olivieri	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Michel Charvaz	....	property master
Javier Gonzalez Duato	....	construction coordinator
Alexis Imbert	....	assistant property master
Diego Modino	....	art department coordinator
Aitana Ozaeta	....	assistant property master
Aitana Ozaeta	....	stand-by painter
Michail Krasnoborov Redwood	....	painter
Octavio Tapia	....	assistant property master

Technicien du son
Roland Duboué	....	assistant sound editor
Jaime Fernández-Cid Buscató	....	boom operator
Cyril Holtz	....	sound re-recording mixer
Denis Jaillet-Marsigny	....	sound mix technician
Marion Lorthioir	....	post-synchronisation
Rodrigo Merolla	....	sound assistant
Laurent Quaglio	....	sound designer
Miguel Rejas	....	sound mixer
Serge Rouquairol	....	sound editor

Effets spéciaux
Jérémy B. Caravita	....	special effects technician
Pascal Molina	....	special effects supervisor
Pierre Olivier Persin	....	special effects technician
Rodrigo Valverde	....	special effects office coordinator

Visual Effects
Manuel Barrero	....	digital compositor: Molinare, Madrid
Erwann Baudet	....	digital effects artist
Axel Bonami	....	digital compositor
Stephanie Broussaud	....	Lustre assistant
Guillaume Carniato	....	digital compositor: DUBOI
Marco Checa Garcia	....	senior digital compositor: Molinare Madrid
Jean-Nicolas Costa	....	additional roto artist
Nicolas Daniel	....	data manager
Thierry Delobel	....	visual effects supervisor
Benoit De Longlee	....	3D supervisor
Benoit De Longlee	....	technical director
Pierre Gosset	....	senior compositor
Thibaut Granier	....	digital compositor
Laurent Herveic	....	model maker
Yannick Honore	....	animator
Élodie Ichter	....	Lustre assistant
Abdel Ali Kassou	....	technical manager
Aurelie Lajoux	....	senior compositor
Yann Larochette	....	digital compositor
Emmanuel Le Courbe	....	digital compositor
Guillaume Le Gouez	....	digital compositor
Javier Marco Rubio	....	visual effects producer
Fatima Montes	....	digital artist
Frederic Moreau	....	visual effects designer
Sarah Moreau	....	visual effects coordinator
Aude Nguyen-Ngoc	....	visual effects
Alexis Peraste	....	digital compositor
Sergio Pinto	....	visual effects
Ferrán Piquer	....	visual effects
Hannibal Poenaru	....	digital effects artist
Sebastien Rame	....	digital compositor
Fred Roz	....	credits
Rossi Sébastien	....	visual effects
Mikael Tanguy	....	digital compositor
Frederic Thonet	....	visual effects head of productions: Duran Duboi
Christian Tomikowski	....	digital compositor
Georges Tornero	....	digital compositor
Daniel Trujillo	....	visual effects supervisor: Spain
Edouard Valton	....	visual effects producer
Dani Villalba	....	visual effects
Pavade Yoane	....	animator

Camera and Electrical Department
Chassaing Arthur	....	assistant camera
Patrick de Ranter	....	camera operator
Patrick de Ranter	....	steadicam operator
David Foquin	....	second assistant camera
Denis Garnier	....	first assistant camera
Romain Lacourbas	....	camera operator: second unit
Nicolas Rideau	....	camera operator: second unit
Vincent Trividic	....	assistant camera

Casting Department
Bouchra Fakhri	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Daniela Ortenzia Chelaru	....	costume coordinator: Romania
Eudald Magri	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Lionel Cassan	....	assistant editor
Sophie Chatin	....	trainee assistant editor
Aurélie Laumont	....	color timer
Sandro Lavezzi	....	first assistant editor

Music Department
Marc Blanes Matas	....	music recordist
Marc Blanes Matas	....	score mixer

Transportation Department
Maria Palazon	....	transportation coordinator

Divers
Alcanda Anna	....	cashier
Juliette Bayle	....	production secretary
Alain Dominiecki	....	accountant
Jean-Yves Dupuis	....	assistant payroll accountant
Cathy Dutheil	....	production coordinator
Marisa Fernández Armenteros	....	production coordinator
Belen Goñi	....	location accountant
Chantal Malrat	....	financial controller
Gomes de Almeida Natasha	....	assistant script
Ainara Porron	....	production coordinator
Luc Poullain	....	helicopter pilot: camera
Juan Pablo Sepúlveda	....	accountant trainee

Production Companies

• Reperage
• Malvarrosa Media
• Mediapro
• Studio Canal

Distributors

• Central Partnership (2008) (Russia) (all media)
• Mars Distribution (2007) (France) (theatrical)
• Mediapro (2007) (Spain) (theatrical)

Technicien des effets spéciaux

• Aliante (construction)
• Duboi (visual effects)
• Duboicolor

Other Companies

• Ciudad de la Luz Studios  sound stages

Autre(s) titre(s) :

His Majesty Minor (International: English title)

Durée:

101 min

Pays:

France | Spain

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Spain:13 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Company:

Reperage

Enjoyable, highly original but falls short of fantastic

I went to an advance screening without any prejudices although I was not really fascinated by the scent of mythical comedy. Sa Majesté Minor proves to be mostly funny but I feel now it should have geared into something still crazier at some point halfway through the movie.

Would it have been too easy, too mundane to let Minor become a fully fledged tyrant? To let him become a political beast, and leave behind gradually his buoyant humane bestiality? Eventually I am a bit disappointed Gerard Brach's last story is not more of a fantastic fable. As such the movie is a pagan tidbit while I think Brach could have made it a universal tale. JJ Annaud too could have make this story take off instead of sealing off narration in and around the -almost Gallic- village. Moreover I think the narration titles are ugly, they do not make up for the lack of a comic chorus that would have bound the story together.

In a nutshell let's say Minor is a nice character, nice to a fault since the movie aims to keep the same comic pace all along while the story seems to require a change in rhythm.