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

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.