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Capitaine Achab (2007)

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User Rating: 5.7/10 (49 votes)

Overview

Director:
Philippe Ramos
Writers:
Herman Melville (writer)
Philippe Ramos (writer)
Release Date:
13 February 2008 (France) more
Genre:
Adventure
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Captain Ahab's back-story more

Cast

 (Credited cast)

Denis Lavant ... Achab adulte
Jacques Bonnaffé ... Starbuck
Bernard Blancan ... Will Adams
Jean-François Stévenin ... Le père d'Achab
Virgil Leclaire ... Achab enfant (as Virgile Leclaire)
Philippe Katerine ... Henry
Dominique Blanc ... Anna
Carlo Brandt ... Mulligan
Jean-Christophe Bouvet ... Le roi d'Angletere
Lou Castel ... Le docteur Hogganbeck
Jean-Paul Bonnaire ... Le pasteur
Hande Kodja ... Louise (as Handé Kodja)
Mona Heftre ... Rose
Pierre Pellet ... Jim Larsson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Merikan ... Church visitor
Guillaume Verdier
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Captain Ahab (International: English title) (festival title)
Kapten Ahab (Sweden)
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Country:
Sweden | France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Captain Ahab's back-story, 21 October 2007
6/10
Author: allenrogerj from United Kingdom

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

An intriguing, but finally unsatisfactory film, that looks at the background of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. In five episodes, we see Ahab through the eyes of five people- his father, his aunt, Mulligan, a preacher who helps him, Anna, his lover, and Starbuck, the Pequod's mate. Each episode is interesting, but they don't hold together as a whole. At the end we don't believe that this accumulation- his father's refusal to take him hunting, his father's death, the religiously inspired cruelty of his aunt and her husband, his encounter with a couple of criminals who've come from Huckleberry Finn, his spiritual division between the sea and religion, his affair with the laundress Anna- explains or shows the monomaniac Ahab of Melville emerges from this history. We are shown nothing of Ahab in his days of glory as the greatest whale-killer in Nantucket, only his young childhood and his life after he loses his leg.

It's a stylised film- the characters speak in Melvillean language- not always reflected in the English subtitles- with some extraordinary shots, a good use of noise and music and a wonderful performance by the child who plays the child Ahab, marred by a little obviousness in ostentatious symbolism, a need to show rather than let us infer, some ignorance or nineteenth century new England- the two priests are portrayed as a French-style Roman Catholic village priest and a humane missionary, rather than as the Father Mapple of Moby Dick or the Calvinists who inspired him- unless Mulligan is the same man with his name changed for some reason.

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