Le Pacte des Loups

The Brotherhood of Wolf

Dilatarbelakangi legenda la bête du Gévaudan atau Monster Gevaudan, film ini mencoba untuk memberikan 'jawaban' imajinatif bagi misteri mengenai Monster tersebut. Sebagai informasi, Monster Gevaudan menteror daerah selatan Prancis pada abad ke-18, terutama menyerang manusia dan memakannya (baca juga di Wikipedia).

Film berkisah mengenai kedatangan utusan Raja Prancis, Grégoire de Fronsac, yang ditemani seorang pembantu berdarah Indian Amerika, ke Gevaudan khusus untuk menangkap Monster. Dalam usahanya menangkap dan mengungkapkan misteri Monster ini, Fronsac menemukan adanya keterlibatan tokoh-tokoh di jajaran elit Gevaudan, yang akan mengkait-kaitnya keberadaan Monster ini dengan sebagai hukuman Tuhan kepada Raja Prancis. Jadilah legenda dan misteri Monster Gevaudan dicampuri intrik politik dan agama :)

LE PACTE DES LOUPS: 3/5
GAMBAR: 3/5
CERITA: 2,5/5
ACTION: 3/5


Note (from imdb.com):
In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of central France. A 'beast' that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people, to this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, wolf? hyena? or something supernatural? Whatever it was, shepherds had the same life-expectancy as the red-suited guys in 'Star Trek'. The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now... Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorized France in the mid-XVIIIth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has quite been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada). Written by Anonymous

Ma Femme est Une Actrice

My Wife is An Actress

Yvan Attal dan Charlotte Gainsborough adalah suami istri dalam kehidupan nyata.

MA FEMME EST UNE ACTRICE: 2,5/5
GAMBAR: 3/5
CERITA: 2,5/5
ACTING: 2,5/5
KETAWA: 2,5/5

Note (from imdb.com):
Paris can boast a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses. Yvan, a young sports writer, is married to one who is very well known - Charlotte. They try to live a normal life, but her fame makes it difficult - autograph hunters interrupt their dinners, cops about to serve traffic summonses let them off with a warning and a smile when they recognize her, and impossible-to-get restaurant reservations magically appear when Charlotte makes the calls instead of Yvan. All this threatens and challenges his male ego, but Yvan is able to take her stardom in stride. Until, that is, a man at a bar asks him if he gets jealous watching his wife make love in the nude to another man on screen. It has never seriously bothered him before, but the stranger sows the first seed of doubt in his head...

Der Tunnel

The Tunnel


Saya mulai kasih 'respek' ama film2 Jerman, khususnya untuk keluaran baru-baru ini, circa tahun 2000-an. Ceritanya asyik, penggambarannya serius dan teliti, terutama untuk film2 yang menggambarkan suasana jadul era Jerman masih terbelah. Anda bisa lihat film Goodbye Lenin dan Das Leben der Anderen. And I count this one too!

Ketika tembok Berlin didirikan, penduduk Berlin Timur tidak bisa lagi hijrah ke bagian barat untuk meraih kebebasan. Harry yang telah melarikan ke Berlin Barat, berupaya untuk membawa adiknya lari dari Timur dengan cara menggali terowongan/der tunnel. Upaya ini dibantu oleh beberapa orang dengan maksud yang sama, to save their own families in the East.

Mereka harus berkejar-kejaran dengan waktu, dengan pengawasan ketat aparat Jerman Timur, spionase dan dengan berbagai masalah yang timbul sesama penggali terowongan tersebut.

Fakta: ada ratusan terowongan yang dibuat untuk menghubungkan Berlin Barat dan Berlin Timur dengan tujuan yang sama, banyak diantaranya yang gagal.

DER TUNNEL: $$$$
GAMBAR: $$$$
CERITA: $$$$
ACTION: $$$

Note (from imdb.com)
Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. On his own escape, he is determined the arrange the escape to the West of his sister and her family. The idea of the tunnel is born, but the project does not run smoothly. The participants struggle not only with the massive logistics of their task, but betrayal from friends in the East. And always the East German police are close to discovering the plot.