Isabelle Giordano missed another opportunity to shut up during the preview at the French Cinematheque's new film by Peter Weir on December 13 last (where the Australian filmmaker received the insignia of Officer of Arts and letters from the hands of Mitterrand). Hired for the evening show, the journalist made a tirade about movies based on true stories, which provide so-called extra soul ... A cliche that does not apply at all to this film. But to know, would he still had to learn a minimum on the subject in question (which it obviously did not). The
Roads to Freedom (The Way Back), taking the story of the escape of a group of prisoners from a camp in the heart of Siberia in 1941. After a journey of several thousands of kilometers on foot, they reach Mongolia and beyond, crossing deserts and the Himalayas, found refuge in India. The film is inspired by a bestselling book released in 1956, written by Rawicz Slámové entitled A forced march. Presented as an autobiographical account and translated into 30 languages, the book is in fact a completely novel invented and demonstrated by many research including a BBC documentary. Slámové Rawicz was a Polish soldier though arrested, tortured and deported by the Russians. But it has not escaped. He was pardoned. Many doubts remain about the veracity of this story, and it is far from a "true story".
When the film by Peter Weir, it will be released in France January 26, 2011, starring key, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Saoirse Ronan. Adventure story of a good performance, the film suffers, however, a setting image too conventional and it is difficult to find the leg of a director whose films have some marked Picnic at Hanging Rock or The Truman Show.
