Jacquou le Croquant (2007)

Jacquou le Croquant is a French historical film based on the 1899 novel by Eugene Le Roy and the 1969 TV serial “Jacquou le Croquant”. The book is often translated as “Jacquou the Rebel” even if the word “Croquant” has a more pejorative meaning as a “yokel”.

However, the action is set in the Dordogne, just after the Napoleonic period and filmed in Romania, at the Corvin Castle.

Jacquou is a boy living happily with his parents. His father will be prisoned for crime and his mother dies shortly after. Orphan and poor, the boy will be helped by the priest Bonal and remains in his care.

As an adult, Jacquou will transform his vow of vengeance into a struggle against injustice and attempts to overturn it.

Jacquou le Croquant is a movie about unconditional love and respect beyond hatred and the division of society into rich and poor, where money makes the law the way it wants.

It is a movie that creates the image of our society on another scale. A lesson that you do not have to hate and kill for changing something around you.

Jacquou le Croquant is a movie you should not miss!

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Quest for Justice (1994)

Humanity’s history of hatred goes back many and many years, and it still goes on today, but in disguised forms.

This true story movie paints that hate and racism. A female journalist, Hazel Brannon Smith (Jen Seymour) is the one who speaks out for black civil rights. Even if she knows insults, violence and death threats from the local Ku Klux Klan, she is not intimidated by the racists of the town and sticks to her ideals.

A movie about the courage to speak out your voice and stand strong against intimidation. A beautiful movie and a true story of courage against racism.

We are all human beings with the same colour of blood and living the same feelings.

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Bohemian Rhapsody

Roger: “You’re a legend, Fred”

Freddie: “We’re all legends.”

Bohemian Rhapsody

I know Freddie Mercury as a legend, because of his talent as songwriter, singer and performer.

Things as writing songs, ruling the stage and holding sway over thousands of fans make Freddie a special person and the film focuses on them.

It also shows us a man who was lonely and insecure, who did not feel he deserved love.

Besides, this film touches your heart making you think what kind of life you lived and what kind of memories you made listening to their songs.

In my opinion, it is the kind of film you can watch over and over again … A film with strong messages: family is the most important thing and living an authentic life.

In fact, “Bohemian Rhapsody” is a film that makes you think that nobody will do for you what you are not willing to do for yourself. To think that YOU are able to stand up for yourself and be who you really are!

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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy

Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy is a fiction movie about the first revolt against the British Raj in India and is inspired by the life of Indian independence activist Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy from the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh.

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