The Fear (2015 film)

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The Fear
La Peur poster.jpg
French film poster
French: La Peur
Directed by Damien Odoul
Written by
  • adaptation by:
  • Loïc Gaillard
  • Damien Odoul
  • Aude Py
Screenplay byDamien Odoul
Based onLa Peur (1930 novel)
by Gabriel Chevallier
Produced by
  • Jean-Pierre Guérin
  • Gérard Lacroix
  • Claude Léger
  • Sylvain Proulx
  • Olivier Père
Starring
  • Nino Rocher
  • Pierre Martial Gaillard
  • Théo Chazal
  • Eliott Margueron
  • Frédéric Buffaras
CinematographyMartin Laporte
Edited byMarie-Eve Nadeau
Music by Colin Stetson
Production
companies
Distributed byLe Pacte
Release date
  • 12 August 2015 (2015-08-12)(France)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesFrance, Canada
LanguagesFrench, Occitan

The Fear (French : La Peur) is a 2015 French war drama film directed by Damien Odoul. [1] [2] [3] The film won the 2015 Cinema of France award Prix Jean Vigo, [4] and was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [5]

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Plot

Gabriel Dufour (Nino Rocher) is a young conscript in the French Army during the First World War. Along with fellow conscripts from his small town, he is sent to the front in 1914. Through the trials, horrors, and tribulations of war, he survives and discovers his own humanity.

Cast

Production

Secretly shot from 15 September through 24 October 2015, on locations in Canada, filming completed and the film entered post-production in late November. The film represents Damien Odoul's seventh feature film. [3]

Reception

Abus de Cine noted in-depth films covering World War I from a French viewpoint were rare, and noted La Peur as ambitious. While the reviewer felt the film was uneven in its interpretation, he felt it was worth watching. [6]

While also noting an unevenness in interpretation, La Croix praised the director for immersing the viewer into the war from a uniquely French perspective, and the work of actor Nino Rocher in the lead role. [7]

Libération noted director Damien Odoul's success in capturing the horrors of trench warfare through his graphic film adaptation of the memoirs of a survivor of "The Great War". [8]

Le Figaro wrote that the film was remarkable in its retelling of the fears and horrors suffered by French soldiers during World War I. [9]

France 24 praised director Damien Odoul for his unfettered depictions of the true horrors seen and suffered by French soldiers from 1914 through 1918 in the trenches of World War I. While it was felt the director took liberties in his adaptation of the Gabriel Chevallier novel, the changes were as the filmmaker intended in order to contemporize the history being told. [10]

Awards and nominations

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References

  1. ↑ "The Fear". Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wild Bunch unveils 2015 French slate". Screen Daily . Archived from the original on 13 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 Lemercier, Fabien (20 November 2015). "Damien Odoul's Fear enters post-production". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  4. 1 2 Lemercier, Fabien (5 June 2015). "The Jean Vigo Award goes to The Fear". Cineuropa. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Punter, Jennie (18 August 2015). "Sandra Bullock's 'Our Brand Is Crisis,' Robert Redford's 'Truth' to Premiere at Toronto". Variety. Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Romanazzi, Alexandre (12 August 2015). "La Peur" (in French). Abus de Cine. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  7. ↑ staff (11 August 2015). ""La peur", le voyage au cœur des tranchées" (in French). La Croix. Archived from the original on 13 October 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Ghys, Clement (11 August 2015). ""La Peur", viscères au point" (in French). Libération . Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Tranchant, Marie-Noëlle (11 August 2015). "La Peur : la Grande Guerre tranchée dans le vif" (subscription required) (in French). Le Figaro. Archived from the original on 21 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  10. ↑ Trouillard, Stephanie (12 August 2015). "Centenaire 14-18 : "La Peur" des tranchées sur grand écran" (in French). France 24 . Retrieved 25 August 2015.
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