Released on: 2005
Rating: 6.80
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Review: La Conquкte (The Conquest)
What should have been a daring portrait of Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power falls flat like a cold soufflй
Heralded as the French answer to Stephen Frears's The Queen, a daring portrait of Nicolas Sarkozy's rise to power, La Conquкte (The Conquest) promised to shake up French cinema, no less. Teams of lawyers had to read the script for fear of legal retaliation. How audacious, how brave was the team behind the film, director-writer Xavier Durringer and the producers, the Altmeyer brothers.
La Conquкte promised all but delivers little, and sadly falls flat like a cold soufflй. First of all, we don't learn anything new. No new insight, no daring hypothesis, no cunning analysis on the kind of political animal Nicolas Sarkozy is. Performances by Denis Podalydиs, interpreting Sarkozy, and Bernard Le Coq, playing Chirac, may be tremendous, with all the right mimics, tics, grimaces and more importantly the perfect voice intonations,»
- Agnиs Poirier
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