Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by patrickU (A) on October 11, 2003 at 05:10:16

John Ford is one of the best director ever. Snob could consider his " cowboy " work as minor...In France we never did, and rightly so!
His films are in the same vein as John Huston,different of course, but parent.
" The lost patrol " is not a very good film but it has on board Victor...Mac Laglen ( the Ford´seargent ) Boris Karloff and the music of the romantic Steiner.
This film is claustrophobic, it has nothing to envy to J.P.Sartre theater play! Very critical of the English upper class in form of the officers depict as living in a world long gone.
The interplay relations of the soldiers shows the real life one but in a microcosmos world.
Pessimistic, dark, one would dare to say, anti-American. At the antipode of today modern idiotic self elect but fake optimism.
A film who bear some spirit with " Passion in the Desert ".
Do not ask me why. And not only for the sand.
A film to see.