Can anyone remember the last good caveman film in recent memory? I can't recall but maybe the upcoming French film Ao, the last Neanderthal (original language title: Ao, le dernier Néandertal) will fit the bill. The director Jacques Malaterre is no stranger to the subject of our prehistoric ancestors. With his two acclaimed TV documentary, A Species' Odyssey and Homo Sapiens, under his belt, I doubt we would have to worry about an inaccurate historical depiction a la Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC.
The epic adventures of Ao (Simon Paul Sutton), the last Neanderthal, and his passionate encounter with the beautiful Aki (Aruna Shields), one of the few Homo-Sapiens to accept and come to love him for what he is. A wonderful hunter, Ao must survive and then battles with terrifying animals of a lost world into savage landscapes. He also protects his family from the most dramatic natural phenomena. But...
The epic adventures of Ao (Simon Paul Sutton), the last Neanderthal, and his passionate encounter with the beautiful Aki (Aruna Shields), one of the few Homo-Sapiens to accept and come to love him for what he is. A wonderful hunter, Ao must survive and then battles with terrifying animals of a lost world into savage landscapes. He also protects his family from the most dramatic natural phenomena. But...
- 6/22/2010
- Screen Anarchy
CANNES -- The eighth MIPDOC factual programming market, which wrapped here Sunday, served to underline the increasingly blurred boundary between what counts as a documentary and what is out-and-out fiction. "Twenty years ago you couldn't mix styles and genres," said Frederic Fougea, head of French independent Boreales, which produced the recent $5 million fictionalized re-creation of man's evolution, Homo Sapiens. "Is it docu-fiction? I don't know what it is, but it's wide open." The show drew an audience of some 9 million viewers on pubcaster France 3, making it one of the highest-performing "documentaries" ever on French TV. MIPDOC also was marked by the growing gulf between so-called blockbuster documentaries and the continuing struggle of smaller-scale projects to find financing.
- 4/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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