{"id":8855,"date":"2013-11-15T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2013-11-13T23:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:45:31","slug":"of-gods-and-men-2010-xavier-beauvois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8855","title":{"rendered":"Of Gods and Men (2010, Xavier Beauvois)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French monks in Algeria, led by Lambert Wilson (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/484\">Not on the Lips<\/a><\/em>) but also featuring the great Michael Lonsdale and Philippe Laudenbach (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3004\">Mon Oncle d&#8217;Amerique<\/a><\/em>) with his big comedy eyes, hear that a civil war is brewing, have to decide whether to stay or leave.  They provide a primary source of medical care for the locals and don&#8217;t want to abandon them, but it seems their lives may be in danger, despite a cautious truce with the Muslim militants.  Faith is tested, fates are decided, and monks are kidnapped and murdered.  Kind of a depressing movie, actually.<\/p>\n<p>Ouch from D. Nowell-Smith in Film Quarterly: &#8220;Beauvois has managed to make a film about postcolonial Algeria in which it is French expatriates who are the victims; the 100,000-plus casualties of the civil war are, for the film&#8217;s purposes, incidental to the monks&#8217; own suffering.&#8221; He also compares to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5603\">White Material<\/a><\/em>, a film from the same year about French nationals living in an ex-colony during civil war. &#8220;Of Gods and Men becomes a surprisingly feel-good film, at least for its audience of citizens of a European power whose invidious colonial past is thus suppressed under a cosy, but ultimately false, humanitarian warmth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French monks in Algeria, led by Lambert Wilson (Not on the Lips) but also featuring the great Michael Lonsdale and Philippe Laudenbach (Mon Oncle d&#8217;Amerique) with his big comedy eyes, hear that a civil war is brewing, have to decide whether to stay or leave. They provide a primary source of medical care for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1564,34,1744,1745],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-algeria","tag-france","tag-monks","tag-xavier-beauvois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}