DVD Movie Rating for: Brotherhood of the Wolf

4 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Brotherhood of the Wolf

In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of south-western France. A 'beast' that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people, to this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, wolf? hyena? or something supernatural? Whatever it was, shepherds had the same life-expectancy as the red-suited guys in 'Star Trek'. The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now... Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorised France in the mid-XVIIIth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France. The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has quite been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France

DVD Production Details of: Brotherhood of the Wolf

Starring: Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos , Monica Bellucci

Director: Christophe Gans

Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby

Studio: Umvd

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Cast of the movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf

• Samuel Le Bihan .... Grégoire de Fronsac
• Vincent Cassel .... Jean-François de Morangias
• Émilie Dequenne .... Marianne de Morangias
• Monica Bellucci .... Sylvia
• Jérémie Rénier .... Thomas d'Apcher
• Mark Dacascos .... Mani
• Jean Yanne .... Le Comte de Morangias
• Jean-François Stévenin .... Henri Sardis
• Jacques Perrin .... Thomas d'Apcher (old)
• Johan Leysen .... Beauterne
• Bernard Farcy .... Laffont
• Edith Scob .... Mme De Morangias
• Hans Meyer .... Marquis d'Apcher
• Virginie Darmon .... La Bavarde
• Philippe Nahon .... Jean Chastel

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Reviews of the movie: Brotherhood of the Wolf

If you crave an over-the-top historical kung fu-fantasy epic with a good dose of voluptuous nudity, bravura machismo, and passions so intense they verge on ridiculous, then Brotherhood of the Wolf is your movie. Based (loosely) on an 18th-century legend, this French film follows a hunky scientist (Samuel Le Bihan, who's sort of a second-string Christopher Lambert) and his Iroquois sidekick/spiritual partner (Mark Dacascos) as they pursue a monstrous wolf ravaging the French countryside. Along the way Le Bihan gets entwined with a beautiful noblewoman (Émilie Dequenne) and a gorgeous prostitute (Monica Belluci) with secrets. The plot grows more and more incomprehensible, but the mix of torrid emotions, outrageous action sequences, and lurid titillation is really what the movie is about. Ignore the highbrow philosophizing and confused political intrigue; just enjoy the sensual images. --Bret Fetzer --This text refers to the

Star Wars and LOTR hater that I am, I expected 'Brotherhood Of The Wolf' to be a real chore to watch. However I was pleasantly surprised at just how much I enjoyed watching this movie. To me it really beat the Hollywood blockbusters at their own game by not being dominated by CGI effects, and by having an interesting story and complex characters instead of the usual cardboard cut outs trotted out by Lucas et al. While this is a fantasy movie, and an action flick you didn't just get the feeling it was made for fifteen year old boys or to sell a tie-in video game. I can't say the movie had a great deal of intellectual content, but as an old fashioned popcorn movie it more than achieved what it set out to do. My only criticisms was I felt that the explanation for the beast was a bit hurried and that Mark Dacasos' intriguing character Mani never fulfilled his potential. There was a lot more that could have been done with him I thought. Dacascos, best known for 'Crying Freeman', is much better than you might expect, and joins a first rate French cast led by the impressive Samuel Le Bihan (previously unknown to me), and supported by husband and wife team Vincent Cassel ('La Haine') and Monica Bellucci ('Dobermann'). Cassel is super cool as always and Bellucci is stunningly beautiful. Both deserve to become international stars, something which is bound to happen to Bellucci once the sequels to 'The Matrix' are released next year. Hopefully the same will happen for Cassel one day. Action movies, especially modern martial arts based ones, usually leave me cold, but 'Brotherhood Of The Wolf' is an exception. Visually stunning, well acted, well made, original, exciting and continually interesting, I highly recommend it.