1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will have to face the war together. While Thierno learns to become a man, Bakary will do everything to bring him back safely.
Gregory Costecalde François Girard Ben Milord Julien Bruant Pier Ewudu Anthony Heilmann Harry Makanga Abdallah Marega Moussa Sako Grégory Loffredo Clément Huet Teddy Pividal
Padre y soldado, 戰爭開打之際, Отец и сын, 파더 앤 솔저, Herói de Sangue, Pare i soldat, 狙击兵, Héroe de sangre, Io sono tuo padre, Ochotnik, Mein Sohn, der Soldat, Én vagyok az apád, Ο Πατέρας του Στρατιώτη, Батько і син, Otec a syn
France
Cannes Film Festival
Brazil14
FESTIVAL FILMELIER
South Korea12
Jeonju International Film Festival
FranceTP
Spain
Italy
Germany16
Greece
Czechia12+
FranceTP
France
Germany16
FranceTP
Germany16
Brazil
Czechia
France
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Greece
Italy
South Korea
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fou que thierno ait pas eu un poil qui lui pousse sur le calot pendant toute sa mobilisation
Really enjoyable film. It takes the piss out of the war movie’s spectacle in denying any goal orientation for the battles at hand and instead working with the paternal goals initiated by the beginning of the film. Its depiction of fatherhood is really compelling, working both as a sincere depiction and as a psychoanalytic-cum-postcolonial allegory for the unnatural and damaging postcolonial systems of promotion and punishment that incentivize complicity with colonial powers.
It reminded me that my great-great grandfather from Martinique went to war (voluntarily) and died in Verdun without getting recognized. The work of my Grandmother was to go to Verdun to finally take his medal back home. 100 years later.
As Omar Sy said at the beginning of the screening: « We all have the same history, but not the same memory ».
Un poil déçu 😕
J’en ai peut-être trop attendu, moi qui adore les films de guerre historique Jsuis ps convaincu.
L’histoire est sympatoche mais le montage m’a fait sortir du film, pas de musique marquante et très très peu d’émotion notamment sur l’hommage au soldat inconnu. Omar Sy et Alassanne sont excellents bref 2,5 c’est bien comme note car c’est loin d’être naze j’avais juste trop d’attente ☝️
Cannes 2022
A great start to Cannes, Omar Sy and the director were in our screening and the audience did indeed clap for quite a while.
War films are some of my least favorite as a genre, yet this film executed it rather well not focusing on the direct violence and war itself but more so on the emotions of the soldiers, the relationships forged between them and my favorite, the delusions faces by the soldiers lead to believe they were doing something good.
The film mainly prioritized the relationship of a father and son, a son that was forcibly enlisted into the war and a father who enlisted in order to help his son escape and bring him back…
on sent le film réalisé par un ancien chef-op parce que l'image est vraiment magnifique. mais c'est aussi un peu le soucis du film, peut-être qu'un peu trop de temps a été passé sur le composition des plans et pas sur le scénario.
le film passe bcp trop vite, j'ai la sensation que rien n'est vraiment développé, on passe d'un événement à un autre. y a aussi des soucis au montage, comme une coupe d'une partie d'un dialogue dans une séquence. ça m'a donné l'impression que possiblement une partie du film a été coupé au montage.
malgré les soucis, je vois que le film a été fait avec les meilleurs intentions du monde et beaucoup d'amour. la fin est d'ailleurs très belle!
Omar Sy is good, but the story and narrative are so predictable and have been done far too many times to evoke any deep connection to our characters. Very drab and simplistic cinematography that make this look nothing more than a dollar bin Netflix movie.
