A conspiracy thriller focusing on Gandhi’s final days is hampered by questionable casting, comical back projections and terrible visual effects
Released to mark the anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination, this is frankly a bit eggy – indeed, we may not witness an eggier film all year. Karim Traïdia, the veteran Algerian director who earned a Golden Globe nomination for The Polish Bride (1998), has reappeared in India (or Sri Lanka passing for India) with a conspiracy thriller based on Mahatma’s final days (co-directed by Pankaj Sehgal).
It bears some resemblance to the UK’s own tuppenny-ha’penny costume-and-crime dramas, not least in the casting of Vinnie Jones as the senior British diplomat overseeing partition. (No wonder it all kicked off.) Still, it transpires that Jones – who barely features, and who gives his usual performance when he does – is only the film’s fifth or sixth unlikeliest element.
Released to mark the anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination, this is frankly a bit eggy – indeed, we may not witness an eggier film all year. Karim Traïdia, the veteran Algerian director who earned a Golden Globe nomination for The Polish Bride (1998), has reappeared in India (or Sri Lanka passing for India) with a conspiracy thriller based on Mahatma’s final days (co-directed by Pankaj Sehgal).
It bears some resemblance to the UK’s own tuppenny-ha’penny costume-and-crime dramas, not least in the casting of Vinnie Jones as the senior British diplomat overseeing partition. (No wonder it all kicked off.) Still, it transpires that Jones – who barely features, and who gives his usual performance when he does – is only the film’s fifth or sixth unlikeliest element.
- 1/30/2019
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
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FilmFinders was among the invited guests to The Mannheim Meetings, the market component of the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, which held discussions about 50 projects from Europe, Canada, Latin America, and Africa in the co-production market for arthouse films, which runs from November 12 to 16. Some projects included UK filmmaker David Andrew Ward's thriller 'New Instruction', 'The Polish Bride' director Karim Traidia's new film 'Identite Zero', and 'Aladdin - Escape To Paradise' a Platonic story based on fact by Switzerland's Simon Bischoff. 13 projects from Central and Eastern Europeand five Canadian projects were also invited along with two projects apiece from Argentina, Brazil and Chile and single projects from Ecuador, Burkina Faso, Morocco and South Africa. Support comes from the European Union's MEDIA Programme.
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