second film directed by Michael Mann in 1983, The Keep (The fort black) has accumulated disability. The head of visual effects, Wally Veevers (known for his work on 2001, A Space Odyssey and Superman) dies in the middle of shooting. Then, the first three hours of assembly proposed by Mann in Paramount which was denied. Released in a version of 1:30, down by critics, the film will fail at the box office and in spite of a laser-disc release, he will never know favors the DVD format.
very unfortunate situation as the film has great qualities. Proposed in July at the French Cinematheque as part of a retrospective devoted to American director The Keep tells the woes of a Nazi garrison whose mission is to keep a fortress lost in the mountains of Romania in 1942. Decimated by a mysterious force that seeks to break free from this prison, the Nazis are using an old Jew to try to understand what is happening.
If the music of Tangerine Dream might seem dated, though some special effects seem rudimentary, the fact remains that the film has real atmosphere, a photograph of great beauty and enjoys the presence of major actors, which some were their debut here, including Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen, but also and Jürgen Prochnow.
Blending fantasy and thriller, the film deals with themes that run throughout Mann's career: the manic individualism, the struggle against evil, the identification on the part of the evil that is in us, love is like output. The appellation of "great movie sick" is well suited to The Keep, which does not appreciate the pending rehabilitation worthy of the name.
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