Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2010 Festival de Cannes, screening In Competition)
Directed/Written by: Xavier Beauvois
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Marie Frin and Olivier Rabourdin
“Dying for my faith shouldn’t keep me up nights,” says a Cistercian monk to his rational leader Christian (Lambert Wilson), just two of the eight robed Frenchmen whose monastery sits high in the North African mountains, circa the late 1990s. Loosely based on the Tibhirine tragedy, in which a brotherhood of monks in Algeria were kidnapped and slaughtered by Islamic fundamentalists in opposition of the government, the latest from France’s Xavier Beauvois (“Le Petit Lieutenant”) attempts to put audiences in the sandals of those impoverished martyrs during their final weeks.
It might sound callous to condemn such a story of piety, but that’s exactly the problem: “Of Gods and Men” is overly pious and not much else, offering...
(from the 2010 Festival de Cannes, screening In Competition)
Directed/Written by: Xavier Beauvois
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Marie Frin and Olivier Rabourdin
“Dying for my faith shouldn’t keep me up nights,” says a Cistercian monk to his rational leader Christian (Lambert Wilson), just two of the eight robed Frenchmen whose monastery sits high in the North African mountains, circa the late 1990s. Loosely based on the Tibhirine tragedy, in which a brotherhood of monks in Algeria were kidnapped and slaughtered by Islamic fundamentalists in opposition of the government, the latest from France’s Xavier Beauvois (“Le Petit Lieutenant”) attempts to put audiences in the sandals of those impoverished martyrs during their final weeks.
It might sound callous to condemn such a story of piety, but that’s exactly the problem: “Of Gods and Men” is overly pious and not much else, offering...
- 25/2/2011
- de admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Aaron Hillis
(from the 2010 Festival de Cannes, screening In Competition)
Directed/Written by: Xavier Beauvois
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Marie Frin and Olivier Rabourdin
“Dying for my faith shouldn’t keep me up nights,” says a Cistercian monk to his rational leader Christian (Lambert Wilson), just two of the eight robed Frenchmen whose monastery sits high in the North African mountains, circa the late 1990s. Loosely based on the Tibhirine tragedy, in which a brotherhood of monks in Algeria were kidnapped and slaughtered by Islamic fundamentalists in opposition of the government, the latest from France’s Xavier Beauvois (“Le Petit Lieutenant”) attempts to put audiences in the sandals of those impoverished martyrs during their final weeks.
It might sound callous to condemn such a story of piety, but that’s exactly the problem: “Of Gods and Men” is overly pious and not much else, offering...
(from the 2010 Festival de Cannes, screening In Competition)
Directed/Written by: Xavier Beauvois
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Philippe Laudenbach, Jean-Marie Frin and Olivier Rabourdin
“Dying for my faith shouldn’t keep me up nights,” says a Cistercian monk to his rational leader Christian (Lambert Wilson), just two of the eight robed Frenchmen whose monastery sits high in the North African mountains, circa the late 1990s. Loosely based on the Tibhirine tragedy, in which a brotherhood of monks in Algeria were kidnapped and slaughtered by Islamic fundamentalists in opposition of the government, the latest from France’s Xavier Beauvois (“Le Petit Lieutenant”) attempts to put audiences in the sandals of those impoverished martyrs during their final weeks.
It might sound callous to condemn such a story of piety, but that’s exactly the problem: “Of Gods and Men” is overly pious and not much else, offering...
- 25/2/2011
- de admin
- Moving Pictures Network
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