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Django

2017

Etienne Comar

Reda Kateb, Cécile De France, Maximilien Poullein, Ulrich Brandhoff ...

5.8

267

Drama The French film revolves around Django Reinhardt, the well-known guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"It’s as if Comar (...) doesn’t quite understand how to tell this story, assembling instead a collection of wispy, wandering vignettes (...) Such scenes are neither realistic nor dramatic, and barely qualify as poetic"	NEG
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s fairly entertaining stuff but also too overcooked to be true"	NEU
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Unimpeachably honest intentions and a solid, laid-back lead performance by star Reda Kateb mean that at least the film won’t be derided as 'Django Untuned'."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This tale of guitar genius Django Reinhardt’s war falls flat due to slack tempo and poor characterisation (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Django' deserves credit for refusing to fit its subject into the straightjacket of a survival tale, and Kateb’s expressive turn (...) provides the story with a richness that the writing struggles to achieve on its own."	POS

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