Re: RARA-AVIS: Grang麠Les Rivi貥s pourpres (1998)

From: E.Borgers ( webeurop@yahoo.fr)
Date: 21 Jun 2006


Karin,
 Welcome to the club. I myself disliked this Grangé ´hriller having too many convolutions and unnecessary voyeurism attached to it. I never quite understood why this book received such an acclaim in France.

Further warning: stay away from the *film*... even worst. At a certain moment the whole thing hits a black hole and it is as if the film maker did not understand the main intrigue anymore, plus everything is traded in for more and more unnecessary "special effects". I saw it twice, and I'm not the source of misunderstanding, believe me! I do not know if the DVD (as it did in the French edition- so maybe in Canada is it he same DVD??) in the US still carries the bonus with an interview combining declarations of the film maker, the producer and ... Grangé® These three after 20 min of babbling were unable to explain what was going on in the film concerning its main story. A piece of anthology... of inanity and unplanned humor.

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Karin Montin
> This book by Jean-Christophe Grangé ¨as been published in English as Blood-Red Rivers (trans. Ian Monk), The Blood-Red Rivers, and The Crimson Rivers, as far as I can tell. Whether they're all the same translation, I don't know. A movie was made starring Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel and Nadia Fares, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.
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> I won't tell you any more. The killings and mutilations are gruesome, the "stagings" extremely complicated and farfetched, and the story behind the motive likewise farfetched. In other words, I didn't really like it. Too bad, because I would have liked to see more of Abdouf at work.
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