Review: Towards the Battle
film profile] by Lucrecia Martel than to the standards of American westerns. Who here remembers that Napoleon III launched a military expedition to Mexico where close to 40,000 soldiers were called to the banner of the tricolour flag in order to establish a local regime which would be favourable to French interests? Troops who, ultimately, prove elusive for Parisian photographer Louis Deville ( Malik Zidi) who has received authorisation from General Trochu ( Thomas Chabrol) to cover the war as a reporter, but whom we come across wandering around on his own in the film’s opening scenes, as ...
Source: cineuropa.net
