2023 · history · action · war
Victory or Death
Directed by Paul Mignot, Vincent Mottez1h 55m2023
1793, French Revolution. For three years now, Charette, a young man retired from the Royal Navy, has been back home. In the country, the anger of the peasants rumbles: they call on the young retiree to take command of the rebellion. In a few months, the idle sailor becomes a charismatic leader and a shrewd strategist, bringing in his wake peasants, deserters, women, old people and children, of which he makes a formidable army. The fight for freedom has only just begun.
Our read: Victory or Death (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded history · action · war entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured history / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
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