I can’t say that I’ve seen a lot of Claude Lelouch movies, but the ones I’ve seen could not have prepared me for the movie I saw today, which is a beautiful story he made in 1992. It turned out to be a very unusual film with a very large timekeeping (3 hours.30 minutes), combining, firstly, the events that took place 2000 years ago
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I can’t say that I’ve seen a lot of Claude Lelouch movies, but the ones I’ve seen could not have prepared me for the movie I saw today, which is a beautiful story he made in 1992. It turned out to be a very unusual film with a very large timekeeping (3 hours.30 minutes), combining, firstly, the events that took place 2000 years ago in the time of Jesus Christ, and secondly, there is a modern history that constantly echoes its characters (played by the same actors) with those times, it is a melodrama with elements of detective and fantasy. Besides, besides the fact that the story takes place mainly in France, but the main character is a baptized gypsy named Jesus with his huge gypsy family, so there is a lot of gypsy, which, however, is a little unusual to us gypsy with elements of the East and Spain, the hero from childhood dreams of first becoming a bullfighter, they dance flamenco and their songs in the oriental style. When the hero, having become rich not quite honestly, buys a large estate in which he settles his entire gypsy family, it is decorated in a completely gypsy style, he observes traditions. However, he himself is quite modern. Part of the events takes place in Israel - all the events of antiquity and part of the modern, there is also born the "bee story", passing through the entire narrative. All stories are semi-mystical in nature, the heroes, as they sometimes seem to remember their past lives, see in dreams their lovers, with whom they are reduced by fate, which is not always favorable to them, since tragedies also happen. Events are kaleidoscopic in nature and, despite the fact that the story is so long, you watch it without any tension. I liked Gerard Lanven, who played the main role, and other actors are good.
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