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  • 2015
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  • Distrib Films
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Distrib Films
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Hamilton (Jérémie Rénier) and Markov (Surho Sugaipov) are about to finish five years of service in the Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting in Afghanistan, they wind up amidst a crossfire while out on an impromptu and unauthorized leopard hunt. After Hamilton is shot and nearly killed, Markov risks his own life to save him at t...

Directed By: Sarah Leonor

Written By: Emmanuelle Jacob, Sarah Leonor

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Distrib Films
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • Distrib Films
  • 1 h 47 m

The Great Man

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Hamilton (Jérémie Rénier) and Markov (Surho Sugaipov) are about to finish five years of service in the Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting in Afghanistan, they wind up amidst a crossfire while out on an impromptu and unauthorized leopard hunt. After Hamilton is shot and nearly killed, Markov risks his own life to save him at t...

Directed By: Sarah Leonor

Written By: Emmanuelle Jacob, Sarah Leonor

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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100
Aug 13, 2015
The filmmaker Sarah Leonor has a keen eye and a gentle, unassuming touch. In The Great Man, she discreetly changes moods and storytelling modes like a pianist sliding her hand down a short, soft glissando.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
88
Sep 3, 2015
It takes a woman to make a great film about the all-male bastion of the French Foreign Legion. Claire Denis did so in her elliptical desert updating of Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd” in “Beau Travail” (1999), and her fellow French director Sarah Leonor nearly equals that feat in The Great Man.
By Peter Keough FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 17, 2015
With an acute style marked by lengthy tracking shots and crisp natural cinematography from Laurent Desmet (Shall We Kiss?), Leonor manages to convey emotions through purely visual terms.
By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 6, 2015
It exploits the military aesthetics that lend themselves so well to breathtaking sounds and visuals without fetishizing them.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 6, 2015
While Renier embodies his PTSD-afflicted soldier as a man similarly out of sync with his surroundings, his heartfelt performance isn't enough to overshadow the fact that this often incisive look at modern identity confusion and redefinition loses its dramatic momentum long before its finale.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
42
Aug 6, 2015
It’s shockingly humorless and glacially slow for a film featuring a bendy boy genius, an invisible woman, a human torch, and a talking pile of stones.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Les Films Hatari, Le Studio Orlando, Bac Films, Ciné+, Cinémage 8, Indéfilms 2, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France
Release Date Aug 14, 2015
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating Not Rated
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