A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.
Raoul Servais
Director
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Karol / Virgilus
Elliott Spiers
Aimé Perel
Katja Studt
Princess Ailée
Richard Kattan
Jan
Julien Schoenaerts
Mr. Bonze
Andrew Sachs
André / Superintendent
Daniel Emilfork
First Minister
Cris Campion
Klooster
Robert Lemaire
Lamp
Joris Van Ransbeeck
Versalus
Ferenc Dávid Kiss
Taxandrian
There’s been a longstanding criticism of sci-fi films about its lack of Black characters. For the past few years, Anthony Mackie has been successfully representing Black masculinity in the otherwise homogenous genre and I am here for it.
A young girl named Hailey Mays sings a country song that is named after the film's title.
Friendships are tested when two girls have a crush on the popular boy at school.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.
The newest Pedro Almodóvar movie, Pain and Glory, focuses on an aging and debilitated filmmaker, Salvador Mallo (played by Antonio Banderas) reflecting on his life in his old age.