La chambre des officiers (2001)
(The Officers' Ward)
Country: FR
Technical: col 135m
Director: François Dupeyron
Cast: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Dérangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Isabelle Renauld
Synopsis:
Wounded by a shell at the start of the Great War, and horrifically disfigured, an army engineer spends the rest of the conflict in a hospital ward undergoing bone grafts and adjusting to his new appearance.
Review:
Delicate, pictorially ravishing study of the anguish of rehabilitation, this is brilliantly acted drama, if a little ponderous. Quality filmmaking, taking few risks, but breaking new ground all the same, both in its concentration and its courageous conclusion (the protagonist faces down a horror-stricken child and a beautiful woman, winning both over with his sense of humour).
(The Officers' Ward)
Country: FR
Technical: col 135m
Director: François Dupeyron
Cast: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Dérangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Isabelle Renauld
Synopsis:
Wounded by a shell at the start of the Great War, and horrifically disfigured, an army engineer spends the rest of the conflict in a hospital ward undergoing bone grafts and adjusting to his new appearance.
Review:
Delicate, pictorially ravishing study of the anguish of rehabilitation, this is brilliantly acted drama, if a little ponderous. Quality filmmaking, taking few risks, but breaking new ground all the same, both in its concentration and its courageous conclusion (the protagonist faces down a horror-stricken child and a beautiful woman, winning both over with his sense of humour).
(The Officers' Ward)
Country: FR
Technical: col 135m
Director: François Dupeyron
Cast: Eric Caravaca, Denis Podalydès, Grégori Dérangère, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Isabelle Renauld
Synopsis:
Wounded by a shell at the start of the Great War, and horrifically disfigured, an army engineer spends the rest of the conflict in a hospital ward undergoing bone grafts and adjusting to his new appearance.
Review:
Delicate, pictorially ravishing study of the anguish of rehabilitation, this is brilliantly acted drama, if a little ponderous. Quality filmmaking, taking few risks, but breaking new ground all the same, both in its concentration and its courageous conclusion (the protagonist faces down a horror-stricken child and a beautiful woman, winning both over with his sense of humour).