Netflix: last chance to see this adaptation of a masterpiece starring Pierre Niney

Pierre Niney as literary hero

Time will tell whether writer-director Éric Barbier was right to bring Romain Gary’s immense novel to the screen in 2017 The promise of dawn. In the film of the same name, Éric Barbier leads a very solid cast that includes Pierre Niney and Charlotte Gainsbourg in the main roles. The actor is Roman Kacew, a young man promised, according to Nina, the authoritarian but loving mother played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, to a prodigious destiny.

Having gone to war where he became a hero, an aspiring writer, he claims an intense epistolary relationship with his mother, who sends him two letters a week. But when Roman finally returns to France, happy with his first publication and eager to announce it to his mother, he will discover a heartbreaking reality…

Autobiographically inspired, The promise of dawn is one of the greatest novels by Romain Gary, an author famous above all for having won the Goncourt Prize twice, the first time with his real name for The Roots of Heaven and the second time under the pseudonym Émile Ajar Life ahead of you. Writer, but also air force pilot, resistance fighter, diplomat and director, Romain Gary was inspired by the thousand lives and his relationship with his mother, Mina Owczyńska, to write The promise of dawnwhich he conceives as a book about maternal love and a tribute to one’s motherhe died in 1941.

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A film with modest success

Ambitious in its staging, with a supporting cast that includes Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine McCormack and Finnegan Oldfield, among others, The promise of dawn passes the bar million viewers in France, but does not really benefit from the exceptional popularity of Romain Gary’s novel. It is even a particular phenomenon that we observe, since the film does not so much transform readers into spectators as the opposite. Indeed, as Livres Hebdo noted in January 2018, book sales increased after the release of Éric Barbier’s film.

Enough to contradict the critics Inrockuptibleswho at the time of its release wrote that the film The promise of dawn era : “indigestible and strongly not recommended for Gary readers. As for others, faced with this incredible Macedonia, they risk being discouraged forever from approaching his prose..”

Since then, there are still a few days left to form your own opinion on Netflix The promise of dawn is still available until April 19, 2024.

Source: Cine Serie

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