Since Master & Commander, Peter Weir director of Circle of Dead Poets and The Truman Show quite discretely. It took more than seven years he returns to directing with Roads to Freedom , adapted from a novel by Slawomir Rawicz telling the true story of prisoners released from a gulag in Siberia and traveling over 10,000 kilometers on foot across the Russian tundra, the Gobi desert, the plains of Mongolia and the Himalayas to finally find freedom in a country not a communist.
The film begins with a prologue in which a man Janusz (Jim Sturgess ), Polish, was accused of espionage by the Russian army and convinced of guilt by the testimony of his own wife. He was then found in a camp for convicts that Stalin used to flourish in the '40s. The first part of the feature, devoted to life in the camp, quickly shipped. It goes fast the different groups, those who rule and those who suffer, it is understandable that we find a jumble of foreigners, Russian, Polish and a series of political prisoners (the Gentiles) who alongside those of common law (the wicked). In a jiffy, through an opening in the barbed wire encircling the gulag, an unidentified group of convicts escaping. It will take several minutes to understand that the group consists both directed by Peter Weir favors the most famous of them, Jim Sturgess (the brain of the adventure), Ed Harris (Patriarch American) who literally eats the screen with his craggy face and Colin Farrell (the villain common prisoner). We're desperately looking Viggo Mortensen no he is not one. One of the prisoners do not spend the night in the blizzard and was buried in haste, so they were 7.
For more than two hours, the camera will follow the journey of these men. But the story is mostly an excuse for the director. What he wants is to produce a report in National Geographic (for political reasons and logistics, the film was finally shot in Bulgaria, Morocco and India). Therefore he asked his players to walk again and again, the scenery changes and they continue walking. Without talking too much because prisoners have learned to be silent. While Weir introduces a woman (Saoirse Ronan ) in the adventure. A little tenderness in this world of brutes and dialogue (the women speak is known). The natural scenery in succession as a plank Thorgal . We recognize that it took the film crew considerable energy to capture the magnitude of these areas but unfortunately the character of this epic adventure is sorely lacking. None of the characters is already sufficiently studied, it learns about them as fragmented bits, condemned to always move forward, we do not see hardly ever take the time being, they eventually fail thick. Apart from a few dust storms or snow, nothing happens to them, no burst in the frame, no suspense, no real genius to film nature Nor, one imagines Terrence Malick among these biotopes ... We finally found the time long and tiresome adventure. The most amazing is that we do even more surprising character of this incredible adventure, courage is shown by these men, conditions of animal survival (including Weir tries to make parallelism easier with a pack of wolves), so we strongly focuses on the sensation of thirst, the state advanced decomposition of their feet on the pure plastic in spite of any depth.
Bypassing the classical extreme of staging is impossible, as it is difficult to appreciate the music pressed, the inconsistency of English in a Russian gulag (there is a breakaway in the U.S. then everyone speaks English), low scores of players with ridiculous prices for Colin Farrell who is beyond any buffoonery when he speaks English with a Russian accent. The crossing to freedom leaves us puzzled and numb.
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