Inspired by a true story, the film “Brothers” tells the life of two children who lived alone for seven years, without contact with civilization, in the forest.
Published on 23/04/2024 06:05
Reading time: 3 min
Mathieu Kassovitz and Yvan Attal in “Frères”, by Olivier Casas, released on April 24, 2024. (ADNP ZINC ADNP ZINC 2024 ANGEL MOVIES)
After Baby phone (2017), a light comedy, the director Olivier Casas signs a second special film under the sign of drama. Brothers, inspired by a true story, looks back on the fate of two brothers marked by living several years in the forest when they were children. The film faithfully rewrites this amazing poem and the endless love that binds the two boys, but despite an amazing story and a luxurious cast, brothers, in theaters on April 24, steeped in pathos and heaviness.
Michel, a skilled architect, leaves his wife and children overnight and leaves for Northern Canada to find his brother Patrice, who has been missing for a few days. The two brothers are bound by a secret that they have never shared with anyone, not even their loved ones.
Summer 1948, Michel and Patrice, 5 and 7 years old, abandoned by their mother, are taken in by a bourgeois family in the countryside. They are resourceful and inseparable. An accident in the house forces them to flee. The two boys then take shelter in the forest.
Frightened by the thought of being arrested by the police, the two children remain in hiding. Gathering, hunting, fishing, building shelters… The two boys use, and gradually take root in this harsh environment, in which they also share moments of pure happiness, in harmony with nature. But one day, in a very harsh winter, Patrice leaves the camp to look for something to deal with Michel, who is suffering, and disappears for several days…
“We started with the best”
The situation floats between two temporalities, that of the two characters’ separate childhoods, and today, the past illuminating the present. This new film by Olivier Casas deals with the fascinating question of the wild child. Here in a special arrangement of a child who is not alone, like Victor of The Wild Child of François Truffaut, but of two brothers who are cut off from the “civilized” world and other people, sticking together to survive helplessly in a natural and wild environment.
“We started at the end, we started at the best.said Padruig to his brother. “For you to live, I must go”, he would send later. How does one live after such an experience? Can we live without the other, overcome the after-effects, the guilt, but also to reject a kind of animal and the lost paradise that makes up the enlightened life and free this, in contact with nature? “I’m looking for something that won’t return”Patrice notes.
“Brothers” by Olivier Casas, released on April 24, 2024. (ADNP ZINC ADNP ZINC 2024 ANGEL MOVIES)
The film multiplies the scenes that evoke this lost paradise, with special care in the setting of nature, its beauty, its lights, its sounds, without putting out in others brutality and the harshness of this life in the forest, especially during the winter.
If he broadly deals with this life in nature, and “wild” children, Brothers it is also and above all a film about brotherly love, here reinforced by the unique experience that Michel and Patrice share. This fusion aspect is especially included in the present day, with Mathieu Kassovitz and Yvan Attal, who have this history that created them, and this unbreakable cement that binds them and marked them forever, to the point of hindering it.
It is also with this side of the story, in which the two brothers try to make one last trip to score life together in wild nature, which the director, thanks to a more sophisticated platform and above above all, thanks to the Kassovitz / Attal duo, find real accuracy, real emotion, and elsewhere, it often gets lost in repetition and pathos, the heavy voiceovers are ubiquitous, and music is aggressive.
Poster for “Brothers” by Olivier Casas, released on April 24, 2024. (ZINC films)
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Sort of: Drama
Director: Olivier Casas
Actors: Mathieu Kassovitz, Yvan Attal
Pay: France
Time: 1h43
Sort of: 24 April 2024
Distributor: Zinc films
Summary : The true story of two little boys aged 5 and 7 who fled to the forest, abandoned by their mother in 1948. They stay there for seven years and create a bond that will unite them forever. Decades later, the two brothers leave everything to find each other. But the past and the secrets go up with them, even on the other side of the world.
2024-04-23 05:08:58
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