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August 15, 2021. Therefore, The Taliban managed to take control of the Afghan capital, while the Americans withdraw their troops from the country. Furthermore, 13 days 13 nights Adapts the true story. For example, the book of Mohamed Bida, commander responsible for the French Embassy in Kabul, the last secure place in the city. Moreover, Beyond nationals. Meanwhile, hundreds of Afghans seek to take refuge in it, which pushes the soldier to organize negotiations to exfiltrate a huge convoy to the airport. Moreover,

Although its Three musketeers The heirs of the Cape. Consequently, French Sword film were wanted to be heirs, Martin Bourboulon’s cinema has assumed from the Pachydermic Eiffel His inspiration on the side of the American blockbusteror at least of the idea he has, with his heads skulls (the famous horrible sequence plans of D’Artagnan et Milady), his impatience in the criticism minor downside unfolding of his sequences, and the Zimmerian music not very final of Guillaume Roussel (that’s good, it is a former protégé of the German composer).

Where his adaptation of Alexandre Dumas seemed to be torn between his contradictory referents, 13 days 13 nights has the merit of being more homogeneous and much more explicit in its intentions. The French Embassy justifies in the first part an intimate camera which serves as a metonymy to the country’s overall chaos. before opening up to the external threat in an oppressive countdown in a second time.

With his disatuated pee yellow photography to represent the Middle East. his trembling camera but not too much and his stretch negotiation scenes where the shots are likely to criticism minor downside leave at any time, the film checks all the boxes expected in a school-pot, which draw at leisure in leisure The fall of the black hawk, Deminers and Paul Greanggrass’s cinema (Vol 93, Green Zone).

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Even if Roschdy Zem seeks to bring a touching vulnerability in his portrait of Commander Bida, a few weeks before his well -deserved retirement, Bourboulon is unable to give his characters more than some characterization crumbs. Whether it is Lyna Khoudri as a humanitarian. becoming a translator or the brilliant Sidse Babett Knudsen, under-exploited in a intrepid war reporter, everyone is housed in the same brand, taken in the turmoil of events without them really defining them.

Obsessed with criticism minor downside its suspense (moreover effective), The director does not even try to dodge the sensationalism that supposes his approach. Worse. this one comes to transform its tension into an emotional hostage taking unwelcome in its “climax”, which suddenly reminds us that this story revolves around a mass of individuals.

It’s a shame, especially since the best scenes of 13 days 13 nights Gravate around separations and reunion, on these moments when the close -ups take on meaning in the political slump where the panic of the crowd is reduced to statistics. This is. for the time being, the undeniable success of the feature film: its way of filming this flow of the Afghan population, this desperate crowd in search of criticism minor downside refuge, whose abstraction reaches a certain universality.