The Great Man2015
The Great Man (2015)
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as Hamilton
as Colonel Lacour
as Johnson
as Issita
as Principal
as Maeva
as Dr. Arnold
as Sergent Gao
as Barman
as Policeman
as Pharmacist
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The characters are nicely written and performed and writer-director Sarah Leonor demonstrates an assured, literary sense of time passing. Yet the film is constricted by its narrow tonal range; everything unfolds in the same blandly naturalistic register.
It takes a woman to make a great film about the all-male bastion of the French Foreign Legion.
Swells of emotion seep in like low-rolling fog and suddenly you are watching a drama about real people wrestling with life blow by blow.
This often incisive look at modern identity confusion and redefinition loses its dramatic momentum long before its finale.
The Great Man is enjoyable in part because its characters are well-defined without obviously taking the story in one direction or another.
It exploits the military aesthetics that lend themselves so well to breath-taking sounds and visuals without fetishizing them as in Claire Denis's Beau Travail.
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