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Of Gods And Men [DVD]

Lambert Wilson (Actor), Michael Lonsdale (Actor), Xavier Beauvois (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
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Contributor Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Loic Pichon, Xavier Maly, Pascal Caucheteux, Abdellah Moundy, Jean-Marie Frin, Philippe Laudenbach, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Herlin, Sabrina Ouazani, Etienne Comar, Olivier Perrier, Abdelhafid Metalsi, Lambert Wilson, Caroline Champetier See more
Language Arabic, French
Runtime 2 hours and 1 minute

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A monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region. The army offers them protection, but the monks refuse. Should they leave? Despite the growing menace in their midst, they slowly realize that they have no choice but to stay... come what may. This film is loosely based on the life of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Algeria, from 1993 until their kidnapping in 1996.

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  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Rated ‏ : ‎ Suitable for 15 years and over
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Arabic, French
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm; 90.72 g
  • Manufacturer reference ‏ : ‎ 5021866517308
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Xavier Beauvois
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 1 minute
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 11 April 2011
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Artificial Eye
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Pascal Caucheteux, Etienne Comar
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00450AG1Y
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Etienne Comar
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings

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Gully Foyle
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a political but a personal and deeply moving tale.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2024
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Loosely-based on the real lives of Trappist monks who try to persist with ministering to a local community during the Algerian Civil War. The monks wrestling with their own faith and debating with one another whether to remain or flee is all captured in simple, tiny details which situates the audience right in the heart of these philosophical discussions. The result, as the film draws towards its climax, is sensitive, emotive and profound.
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Tommy Dooley
5.0 out of 5 stars Moving true Story of the Monks who stood by their Flock.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2012
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This moving drama is based on the true events that took place in 1996, when seven French Trappist monks from the monastery of Tibhirine, Algeria were kidnapped from their monastery. This was during the Algerian Civil War and daily atrocities were frequent.

Xavier Bouvois wanted to make a film about the reasons behind the monks deciding to stay. They knew how dire their position was and yet continued to minister to their flock, providing, advice, comfort and medical help. They lived an almost subsistence lifestyle, selling their excess produce at the local market and living life as piously as they could.

When hostilities get closer they have to face up to Islamist extremists and their own cowardice in the face of what could be a certain, horrible, death.

This is a slow burning powerful film, which is beautifully shot and framed. The acting is superb in its understatement especially by Lambert Wilson as Brother Christian and Michael Lonsdale as Luc. It is in essence a film about faith and togetherness, the monks are all supportive of each other and that strength seems to pull them through. Even though they are democratic they have an agreed leader, but still feel at home in questioning him and it is through that process that we get to see more of who these extraordinary men were. It received masses of critical accolades even getting a 92% rating on `Rotten Tomatoes', as well as the more serious Cannes Grand Prix prize.

I was moved by this film and was really left wanting more at the end, but it is only at that point that you realise that the story teller has done his job; the next chapter would be too horrible. Still an excellent piece of cinema that should be a must for lovers of European Cinema.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The book arrived on time
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2024
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Happy with the books l received and saddened by the one that ldid not received
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Rupert Harvey
5.0 out of 5 stars Three dimensions
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 January 2011
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Xavier Beauvois' slow-burning story of Trappist monks caught up in an existential crisis in 1990s Algeria might not sound like populist material, but it contains universal themes that should strike a chord with any human being: the metaphysical discrepancy between the body and soul; the knowledge of one's own corporeal prison, never capable of achieving the same level of grace as that of a faithful mind.

The form is conservative, shorn of flourish, and the narrative familiar. But you'd have to go back to Black Narcissus to see a similar setting framed with such poise, albeit with more playfulness.

It's impeccably played, particularly by Lambert Wilson as the appointed leader, Christian, and Michael Lonsdale as the world-weary doctor, Luc. Beauvois establishes the sense of serenity and balance beautifully - not only in the simple pleasure of watching people work with their hands, but in the rhythm of Marie-Julie Maille's editing, showing us moments of virtual silence, only to be jarringly shattered by the roar of some engine, or surrendered to a song fairly blared.

With the introduction of fundamentalist terrorists to threaten the village, the film becomes more than a little reminiscent of Roland Joffe's The Mission (minus the melodrama). There is a great scene in which Christian visits a lake to consider the decision to stay or desert the village, and watches a flock of birds take flight. He sees the ease with which they flee.

This is three-dimensional film-making without the glasses. The wordless scene in which Luc enters the dining chamber, slaps on a tape of Swan Lake, and serves wine to his brothers, has a sense of Last Supper significance and mythical profundity. We are observing love and doubt and a million other markers of the human condition. There may be more drama in these few wordless minutes, with the probing camera seeking every twitch in every man's conflicted face, than in all the 3D films yet made.
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Wordsmith
5.0 out of 5 stars Of Gods and Men
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 May 2011
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I have watched this film four times and have been more moved each time. Although it is based on a true story, therefore with a known ending, this does not detract from the tension building throughout the film with the monks' growing realisation of what was likely to happen. The film is about faith and choice. Each character is very different, so there is a wide range of emotion, doubt, faith and a combination of these. These were not men who wanted to be martyrs.Their simple life and their relationships to each other and their interdependence are shown to be at the root of their faith.
The sound track is worth buying on its own (as I did).Both discourse and singing are wonderful. I particularly liked the words of Christian who, aware of the negative stereotypes held by so many about Muslims, prayed that after his death he would see all his Muslim brothers and sisters through the eyes of a god who loves us all.
There were many memorable scenes. One that stays in my mind is the Last Supper-like meal they had with a rare taste of wine and Swan Lake playing as they ate,joy and awareness of what was coming shown clearly on each face.
I would say that this is the best film I have seen for several years.....and I am a regular film-goer!
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T. Nick Fenger
5.0 out of 5 stars A Deeply Rare Experience
Reviewed in the United States on 26 October 2012
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How many times in your life have you witnessed real conflict and more real resolution? This film has both and more. One actor cries as he recognizes the interaction of faith, culture, and deep friendship explored on several levels. The older monks serve the health needs of their neighbors who are of a different faith while both are caught in a war between France and native Algerians mixed with terrorists who have another faith that destruction is the way to purge their lives of the burden of exisence in a hopeless world. The focus is on the monks as they try to walk the narrow path between the four realities: The French army trying to save Algeria for themselves, the Algerians fighting for independence, the terrorists who are hiding from both while killing them when they can, the local Islamic people who have no where else to go and no access to medicine, healing, and food that the monks provide and the monks themselves who through their comforting presence provide for everyone's needs including their own need to serve their Christian God while finding fellowship and life meaning. The French government (they are, of course, French citizens as well as Algerians) want them to leave because the goveernment can't guarantee the monks safety (or anyone's for that matter). So here you have the plot: he government wants them to leave, every other group want their medicins and their care and are jealous that the monks accept even the badest guys as needing their healing. You as the audience know there is no winning way out. But the monks find one anyway: stay committed to service, ask for God's forgiveness, and remember the sacrifice of Jesus as they contemplate the inevitability of their sacrificial demise while doing what they can to appreciate their friends and their opportunity to serve even the most destructive of human ends. I know of no movie which has so capably shown so many needs and so much goodness all in the same script while giving the audience a chance to fit oneself into the real word of conflict and the kinds of resolution of that conflict that are available to those who strive for goodness while others practice destruction their defined enemies and themselves and maybe even the whole world ultimately. Yes there are two monk survivors who add another dimension to this multidimentional scenario as well as the observation that no one knows who actually did away with the monks while leaving the doors of their monistary to wave in the wind of the winter leaving the viewer to feel the coldness of death,the chill of their fear, the warmth of monks faith and the goodness of their gifts cast on the world of ignorance, selfishness, while providing a vision of the ignominy of human life with its need for purpose, vision, and faith. Its what we all need whether we know it or not for as Hamlet said and Lincoln quoted many times: "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."
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cévennes
5.0 out of 5 stars To view and to keep
Reviewed in France on 5 May 2013
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and view again...wonderful performances, cinematography.
Never cloying, never over the top.
Tells you more about a terrible time in history than any
so-called documentary.
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Caroline Sayson
5.0 out of 5 stars A highly recommended and powerful film.
Reviewed in Canada on 24 February 2018
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Excellent film. Powerful and moving story. Love the cinematography. Good casting. The silent parts in the movie speak volumes. I didn't know this part of history so have purchased now the book called "Monks of Tibhirine" which provides a lot of the historical background to this true story. In recent news, it was announced that those who died for their faith in Algeria, including these monks of Tibhirine, will be beatified. One of my favorite movies!
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Dr. L. Lambeth
5.0 out of 5 stars God gave them love and hope
Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2020
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a wonderful story of brave men dedicated to their vocation and the people to whom they. ministered
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mariiep
5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly as described; arrived quickly
Reviewed in the United States on 7 December 2023
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The DVD was exactly as described...used, but like new. It was packaged carefully and arrived very quickly. I am very pleased!
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