L'Exorciste : Au commencement

Titre original : Exorcist: The Beginning

2004
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1h 54min

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Avant que le père Merrin n'aide à sauver l'âme de Regan MacNeil, il rencontre pour la première fois le démon Pazuzu en Afrique de l'Est. C'est le récit de la première bataille du père Merrin... Tout lireAvant que le père Merrin n'aide à sauver l'âme de Regan MacNeil, il rencontre pour la première fois le démon Pazuzu en Afrique de l'Est. C'est le récit de la première bataille du père Merrin contre Pazuzu et de la redécouverte de sa foi.Avant que le père Merrin n'aide à sauver l'âme de Regan MacNeil, il rencontre pour la première fois le démon Pazuzu en Afrique de l'Est. C'est le récit de la première bataille du père Merrin contre Pazuzu et de la redécouverte de sa foi.

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- 6 nominations au total

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6/10

Could have been so much worse.

Hollywood sure chews 'em up and spits 'em out: one minute, director Paul Schrader is working on a long-awaited prequel to The Exorcist; the next, he's been replaced by Renny Harlin, one-time director of mega-budget action films starring the likes of Stallone and Willis, now reduced to the task of salvaging other people's failed projects (the result of having had one too many expensive box office disasters of his own).

However, despite the film's troubled history, Harlin has managed to turn out a fairly reasonable time-waster. The story is pretty unremarkable, detailing Father Merrin's struggle with his faith and his first encounter with the demon Pazazu in Africa—but the stylish direction, wonderful cinematography, decent gore (gotta love those snapping limbs!), and a strong central performance from Stellan Skarsgård as the emotionally scarred Merrin give viewers plenty to appreciate.

Some of the CGI could have been better—I wasn't very convinced by the hyenas or the insects—and Isabella Scorupco's shower scene is woefully short, but these are minor quibbles for a film that had the potential to be absolutely horrendous.

BA_Harrison
12 sept. 2012
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Anecdotes
Morgan Creek Productions fired Paul Schrader after he had submitted a completed movie, saying that he had given them "footage without any of the bloody violence the backers had wanted". He had already made it clear in interviews that he was making more of a psychological drama than an all-out gore-fest. He was fired and Renny Harlin was hired to re-shoot the movie. Almost 90% of the movie was re-shot, re-casting several roles and adding and removing characters. Following the lackluster reception to Harlin's version, though, Schrader's version was finally released as Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005).

Gaffes
(at around 1h 19 mins) Father Gionetti gives Father Merrin a copy of the Rituale Romanum (Roman Ritual). (The administration of exorcism is in Title X of the Rituale Romanum.) The title of the book embossed on its leather cover is "Roman Ritual", in English. Later in the film (at around 1h 35 mins), Father Merrin asks Joseph to help him by reading passages of the book, and we are shown a couple of printed pages, the text of which is also in English. The Rituale Romanum would have been printed in Latin in 1949, when the film is set, because vulgar translations of liturgical texts were not authorized until the promulgation of the Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy) by Pope Paul VI on 4 December 1963, as part of the Second Vatican Council.

Citations
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