An Officer and a Spy (J'accuse)

A Complete Review of Roman Polanski's work (24 movies items)

" Cast : Jean Dujardin, Emmanuelle Seigner,, Louis Garrel, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Denis Podalydès, Vincent Perez What was it about? In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island. My two cents: Eventually, it turned out to be tricky to judge the damned thing. Indeed, it was Polanski’s most accessible movie in years and, in production value, also one of his most ambitious. And, indeed, it was in genera"

A good movie

“Since I am a huge fan of Roman Polanski’s work, I was really eager to check it out. Well, to be honest, it turned out to be tricky to judge the damned thing. Indeed, it was his most accessible movie in years and, in production value, also one of his most ambitious. And, indeed, it was in general visually neat and very well directed. However, on the other hand, Polanski didn’t add anything really interesting or surprising to this story so the whole thing still felt rather generic. It didn’t help that there was an obvious attempt from Polanski to make a comparison between his own predicament with justice and what happened to Dreyfus, an attempt which felt terribly misguided. Indeed, even if they both might have been victim of a flawed justice system, Dreyfus was completely innocent and” read more

“(OK) Such clean effective classicism, protagonist are not aware of the great momentso they're living, no one is too good or bad (the best is the 2nd fat officer, the relcxiams his honour in a duel)...” read more