Three men of different nationalities, American Gangster (Roy Skeyer), French Banker (Bruno Kremer) and Palestine Terrorist (Amidu), each of which the police wanted to be associated with nitroglycerin in the South American jungle to stop oil exploitation.
A highly explosive burden is transported only by road, by shipping, which is a suicide mission. But three adventurers desperately need money to leave this infernal place … The fourth man (Francisco Rabal), Hitman also runs, joining them at the last moment of this dangerous journey …
If Henry-George Clusotti, on top of his art, gave his own fatal odyssey in 1953 with fear of fear, late William Friedkin walked his steps after 24 years of magic.
An unusual film that has many filmmakers is also higher than its original model, already fabulous. Between frustration and redemption, or even the absence of redemption, Friedkin’s film is a pessimistic and visceral transformation of Clusot’s classics that led to the incand -free point.
“The film has become obsessed”
“The film has become obsessed. It must have been my magnesium opus. The one I played with my reputation. It will say years after Friedkin.
The magician is known to be a real hell to turn it into, between large logistics problems (especially the bridge that was found without water), diseases (Friedkin himself contracted malaria), a huge creative tension, a budget of explosive production that requires two studios (universal and paramatures). Ten months of shooting in hell, especially in the Dominican Republic. “Almost everything that has been physically wrong has turned out to be bad” Friedkin said in December 2017 in an interview with Sight & Sound.
“I have repeated that you have been left alive”
Roy Sheider will not say anything else about the experience of this effort in an interview with the New York Times in January 1977: “CE that I did in the magician, it looked like Sea teeth On the picnic. “ And later: “I repeated to stay alive … so what you see in the movie is exactly what happened.
When I drive two wheels on the mountain, the nest along the road with the pulp with the size of the shell craters. No one except Billy Friedkin has been convinced that I took reckless risks. But when I was over and I was watching the raw images, I knew it was worth it.
Bitter failure in cash registers
If Sorcerer is unanimously recognized as a masterpiece today, the film was a terrible failure in the cash registers, namely, due to the brutal competition of a completely different nature compressor. Some stellar wars …
To determine the disaster level, he returned more than $ 12 million. Not enough to cover your production budget, more than $ 22 million.
But he was also destroyed by criticism of the time. “There was a wonderful filmmaker of Los Angeles Times, Charles Champlin, who would always give my films a stylish criticism. So I went to look for a newspaper, in Los Angeles after the opening of two cinemas and two in New York.
That’s when I knew. Then the public diminished and the star wars opened the doors and caught all the society-the only film we should see this year. “ Comment by Friedkin. And add: “I was very disappointed because I sincerely thought it was the best movie I have ever shot and always feel it.”
Want to discover this absolute surprise? Sorcerer was published in a very beautiful director’s cut version of DVD / Blu-Ray 2015 because of its outdoor room.
Source: Allocine
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