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Terry GilliamPhotographie:
Peter BiziouActeurs·trices:
John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan, David Warner, Jim Broadbent (plus)VOD (1)
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Bandits...Bandits, c’est l’histoire de Kévin, petit garçon anglais qui se retrouve embarqué dans une histoire rocambolesque par six étranges nains qui ont dérobé la carte des trous du temps à l’Etre Suprême. Devenu l’enjeu d’une lutte terrible entre le Génie du mal et l’Etre suprême, Kévin et ses six compères vont vivre des aventures incroyables, au cours desquelles ils rencontreront des personnages plus étonnant les uns que les autres parmi lesquels on retrouve « le petit » Napoléon, Robin des Bois ou encore le Minotaure, ils se retrouveront même sur le pont du fameux Titanic... (La Pellicule Ensorcelée)
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Critiques (3)
Two hours of Terry Gilliam's big boy fantasy. Terry is brimming with ideas like few people have, and he adds his unmistakable humour to the mix.
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Terry Gilliam is known as a toyer and a creator with refined artistic sensibilities. His films are similar to the work of Jean Pierre Jeunet in terms of both strengths and weaknesses, meaning they have weaker plots but strong atmospheres and the aforementioned artistic elements. The same can be said for Time Bandits, where Gilliam throws around various stage ideas and artistic elements with full force, but unfortunately, most of the time, he fails to properly utilize them, so their potential is often lost. Gilliam's imagination is boundless, bringing a gang of greedy dwarves, medieval knights, a troubled Napoleon, a ruler of the realm of evil, and even God himself onto the screen. His film features classic Monty Python-esque absurd motifs, dry British humor with numerous one-liners, as well as a peculiar and grotesque interpretation of the director's characters. Genuine fear is absent rom his devil, who expresses his anger slowly in every sentence, and his God has a truly peculiar demeanor and appearance, making it perhaps the most insane portrayal of a heavenly ruler and creator ever used by a filmmaker. The film offers plenty of entertaining moments, but as a whole, it is somewhat disjointed, like a hundred-year-old machine in a technical museum, where visitors can admire the charming shapes of the mechanism and its nicely painted facade, but if they were to try and operate it, they would find that the rusty gears are breaking and the machine no longer works. It required more work on the screenplay, but even so, it is an honest, slightly surreal spectacle in true Gilliam style. Overall impression: 80%.
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An absolutely typical Terry Gilliam. Nobody’s sticking their noses in his business and so he’s filmed this modern fantasy fairytale exactly the way he wanted. He mixed a fantasy world and the modern times. There’s also an incredibly dry British Monty Python humor thrown into the mix and that makes all of his die-hard fans happy. I’m not one of them, but I must admit that movies like this have their place in movie lovers’ world, it’s just that I don’t understand Gilliam’s worlds sometimes.
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