On behalf of the Vatican, a grizzled war journalist investigates a cult that has grown around a vision of the Blessed Virgin in rural France
Xavier Giannoli’s The Apparition is a flawed but heartfelt film about the mysterious workings of divine grace, and things that can’t entirely be explained away. It is showily freighted with the music of Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Giannoli’s film-making has its own fluency, seriousness and weight. Like Jacques Audiard, he knows how to get the wide shot and the bigger picture, the panoramic sweep that exalts the immediate emotional drama. Unlike Audiard, he does not always marry the excellent performances to a story that really means something. There is a bit of redundancy.
Vincent Lindon, grizzled and rumpled as this actor habitually is, plays Jacques, a troubled warzone journalist on sick leave due to the trauma of seeing his photographer...
Xavier Giannoli’s The Apparition is a flawed but heartfelt film about the mysterious workings of divine grace, and things that can’t entirely be explained away. It is showily freighted with the music of Monteverdi, Arvo Pärt and Jóhann Jóhannsson. Giannoli’s film-making has its own fluency, seriousness and weight. Like Jacques Audiard, he knows how to get the wide shot and the bigger picture, the panoramic sweep that exalts the immediate emotional drama. Unlike Audiard, he does not always marry the excellent performances to a story that really means something. There is a bit of redundancy.
Vincent Lindon, grizzled and rumpled as this actor habitually is, plays Jacques, a troubled warzone journalist on sick leave due to the trauma of seeing his photographer...
- 8/3/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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