After 80 spring, certain great directors have the right to make “the film too much”.
In view of their career, the public is more inclined to forgive them.
Ridley Scott is not one of them.
The last duelist of the seventh art carries his 83 springs high.
With his 26th feature film,
The Last Duel
, he signs a young man's film, violent, harsh, inspired, relentless and in the era of time.
As an old man who never excels as much as in “survivalist” cinema (from
Alien
to
Seul sur Mars
via
Les Duellistes
…), Scott has decided to revisit a story based on the last duel to the death in medieval France. from the 14th century.
To do this, he adapts the book by American scholar Eric Jager
The Last Duel.
Paris, December 29, 1386
(2004).
A sense of fresco
At the heart of the Hundred Years War, two friendly knights, then rivals, appealed to "God's judgment" to settle a legal dispute.
Bluntly, Scott, who has always known how to magnify strong women (from the Ripley
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