Overrall, Berri's piece of work joins the list of films derived from novels in which to be as faithful as possible to the basic work can hamper the artistic potential of the film. The mining company operates still in the old tradition, with a true capitalist entrepreneur and owner. Zola wanted some economic and moral balance – even just a little – and set about depicting a situation that could not be denied. "Germinal" (French, 1993): This EPIC story, adapted from Emile Zola's novel and put to film by Claude Berri (director of "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring"), is the gritty depiction of hard working coal miners in 1800's France, trying to eek out a living and better their lives by forming a labor union. Judith Henry is memorable as his daughter who is the victim of rape and struggles to escape the inner shame. Daily lives, class wars, the health costs of poverty are all shown in a meaningful way that makes it easier to understand that time period, and its modern-day correlations/ramifications. Although Zola was not a socialist, he sketches a debunking image of the misery and poverty of the common people. Yves Allégret. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. This film is a good reminder, even without understandable dialogs. 80. The film follows one particular mining family, who is approximately decimated during the unfolding course of things. The contrast between the classes in this book and how it completely illuminates their difference make the story make sense. Director. Oops.... did I just admit to it?! This movie unfortunately doesn't come close. | ", "Everyone ends up in the same damned place. Very good movie for people who are interested in the life of the ordinary man during the industrial revolution. Only stupid 21st/20th Century minds from the Civilized West could actually think the poor characters in the movie were shown realistically as impoverished. At the time it was the most expensive movie ever produced in France. I bought the DVD on a visit in Brussels, the bilingual capital of Belgium. In 1962, Yves Allégret's version of Zola's sprawling novel followed very closely the thread of the storytelling which came to the front while the descriptions of the working-classes and the upper classes took a back seat. Metacritic Reviews. User Ratings Plots are identical. 2 VIDEOS | 23 IMAGES. We have no idea. He plays a loving and caring husband and father yet he easily steals scenes with the odd humour as well. The film had 6,161,776 admissions in France making it the 4th most attended film of the year. A roaming socialist agitator arrives, and becomes engaged in the mining company. The impoverished Maheu family struggles to survive the grim conditions of backbreaking mine work in northern France under the … Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola. Select the department you want to search in. I'm sure someone really thought (Claude Berri?) it was the time of the First Socialist International, and the rise of the workers movement. He believes in total bloodshed so the world may start again anew and couldn't care two hoots about the fate of the miners.We also see a baker attacked by the crowd hungry for bread and his private parts cut off ( totally unneccessary scene put in on purpose to shock audiences no doubt) So much for the rubbishy politics of the film ! In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. In 1867, Karl Marx theorized the struggle of the proletarian masses in economical words. But this version stinks. TMDb Score. Indeed the contrast between the miners' misery and the capitalists' abundance could hardly be more profound. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Sorry, Germinal (1993) isn't available on Netflix United States, but is available in a different country. But when I'm able to see a movie that deals with the life of the ordinary man in that time period, than I'm always willing to give it a chance. I cried when I was reading but felt a bored while watching the movie. He had an obsession with the light on Mont Sainte Victoire in Provence, an obsession I would share, so many years later. The latter ended rather abruptly with the capture of Napoleon III on the battlefield, at Sedan, by the Prussians, which would issue in the era of the Third Republic. Reducing Zola's masterful but monstrously long novel to a movie is the problem that Claude Berri does not seem to have resolved. Realistically told but its outcome is predictable. This movement was at its peak at the dusk of the eighties and the dawn of the nineties with "Jean De Florette", "Manon Des Sources" (1986), "Cyrano De Bergerac" (1990) or "Madame Bovary" (1991). The rage of the miners and the revolutionary agitation mix into an explosive atmosphere. Germinal ( 1993) Germinal. A good attempt to create Zola's earthy and naturalistic style. Germinal. If you do know the novel, and it is well-known in France, you have the sense that you are just skimming the surface. There is no trace of the idea of Le Voreux being a monstrous man-swallower. His daughter quickly catches the attention of Renaud but she is raped by another miner and forced to live with him. | This was not obvious when I bought it. You're embarrassing yourself. Streaming & DVD Movies Showtimes & Tickets Videos News. Again lots of people are killed. The acting wasn't that good either, not necessarily their fault, when they're forced to generalize things that were compressed and not naturally developed in the film the way they were in the book. Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2016. Emile Zola's novel "Germinal" is an epic masterpiece. FAQ Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2019. Malnourished, with bad skin, teeth, etc. Also the various groups of miners fight amongs themselves, some want to work others want to strike, those who want to strike try to selfishly prevent the others from going to work. The characters and setting in the movie do no justice to how the book describes things like the temperature, freezing cold one minute and dying of heat the next.

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