Blueberry (film)
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| Blueberry | |
|---|---|
| Starring | Vincent Cassel Juliette Lewis Michael Madsen Djimon Hounsou Eddie Izzard |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by | Jennifer Augé Bénédicte Brunet Joël Jacovella |
| Music by | Jean-Jacques Hertz François Roy |
| Distributed by | UGC Fox Distribution Columbia TriStar (2004) (US) (as Renegade) |
Release date |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
| Countries | France Mexico United Kingdom[1] |
| Languages | English German French Spanish |
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $5.7 million[2] |
Blueberry (
Plot
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U.S. Marshal Mike Donovan (
Cast
- Vincent Cassel as Mike Blueberry
- Hugh O'Conor as Young Mike Blueberry
- Juliette Lewis as Maria Sullivan
- Michael Madsen as Wallace Sebastian Blount
- Temuera Morrison as Runi
- Ernest Borgnine as Rolling Star
- Djimon Hounsou as Woodhead
- Geoffrey Lewis as Greg Sullivan
- Nichole Hiltz as Lola
- Kateri Walker as Kateri
- Vahina Giocante as Madeleine
- Kestenbetsa as Kheetseen
- Tchéky Karyo as Uncle
- Eddie Izzard as Prosit
- Colm Meaney as Jimmy McClure
- François Levantal as Pete
Production
The movie features several elaborate
Peyote is shown growing in the sacred areas throughout the film, and the buttons are prominently displayed at the end, although the viewer cannot be sure what Runi offers to the Marshal either time.
Reception
Blueberry was not a critical success in the Anglophone world and received mostly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 22% rating based on reviews from 9 critics.[4]
Jamie Russell, of the BBC, felt the film was 'two parts bonkers to one part boring', and compared it to The Missing by describing it as 'totally lost'.[5] In his review for Cinopsis, Eric Van Cutsem found that the film greatly disappointed the expectations of the large audiences of the original comic, being largely unrelated in both story and character.[6] Raphaël Jullien, of Abus de Cine, felt the film's greatest weakness was that it was partly auteur experimentalism and partly genre western.[7]
Some reviewers found praise for Blueberry. Lisa Nesselson, writing for
Blueberry has managed to build a reputation as a cult success and as a trip film. French language cult cinema website Film de Culte awarded the film 5-out-of-6, noting the unusual goal of the antagonist, 'the treasure sought by Wally Blount is not gold hidden in Indian mountains, but the spirit that emerges' through the quest of the protagonist as 'a man in search of his identity, his roots, openness to the world and, why not, to love'. The cinematography by Tetsuo Nagata was also referred to as 'sublime'.[9] Tripzine noted the film has 'the best, most accurate, most lovingly crafted shamanic rituals and psychedelic visuals ever created for home viewing', and praised Blueberry's uniqueness among westerns for having a climax that revolved around shamanic rite rather than a gun battle.[10]
See also
References
- ^ "Blueberry". London. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ "Blueberry, l'expérience interdite (2004)". JPBox-Office (in French).
- ^ Jounen, Jan (2004). D'autres Mondes.
- ^ "Blueberry (2004)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ^ Russell, Jamie. "Blueberry". BBC.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ Van Cutsem, Eric. "Blueberry". Cinopsis.be. Cinopsis. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ Raphaël, Jullien. "Blueberry". abusdecine.com. Abus de Cine. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ Nesselson, Lisa (11 February 2004). "Blueberry". Variety.com. Variety. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ "Blueberry". FilmdeCult.com. Film de Cult. Archived from the original on 2 July 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ Kent, James. "Renegade, the best psychedelic western, ever". tripzine.com. TripZine. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
External links
- Interview of Jean Giraud about the movie (in French)