His Majesty Minor
(2007)
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His Majesty Minor
(2007)
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José Garcia | ... |
Minor
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| Vincent Cassel | ... |
Satyre
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| Sergio Peris-Mencheta | ... |
Karkos
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Mélanie Bernier | ... |
Clytia
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Claude Brasseur | ... |
Firos
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Rufus | ... |
Rectus
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Jean-Luc Bideau | ... |
Archeo
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Taïra | ... |
Zima - La bouchère
(as Taïra Borée)
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Marc Andréoni | ... |
Zo - le boucher
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| Bernard Haller | ... |
Cataractos, le devin
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Alice Frémont | ... |
Prunios - La vestale
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Rosine Favey | ... |
Kinema - la pythie
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| Pedro Casablanc | ... |
Kryton, l'architecte
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| Guillaume Delaunay | ... |
Le centaure
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Juana Cordero | ... |
Aura
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Described as a mythical comedy set on an island in the Aegean Sea before the founding of Ancient Greece.
I went to an advance screening without any prejudices although I was not really fascinated by the scent of mythical comedy. Sa Majesté Minor proves to be mostly funny but I feel now it should have geared into something still crazier at some point halfway through the movie.
Would it have been too easy, too mundane to let Minor become a fully fledged tyrant? To let him become a political beast, and leave behind gradually his buoyant humane bestiality? Eventually I am a bit disappointed Gerard Brach's last story is not more of a fantastic fable. As such the movie is a pagan tidbit while I think Brach could have made it a universal tale. JJ Annaud too could have make this story take off instead of sealing off narration in and around the -almost Gallic- village. Moreover I think the narration titles are ugly, they do not make up for the lack of a comic chorus that would have bound the story together.
In a nutshell let's say Minor is a nice character, nice to a fault since the movie aims to keep the same comic pace all along while the story seems to require a change in rhythm.