A movie that motivates ...A RED GIN (Screen)

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2006)

The "Da Vinci Code" has a lot of things the others haven't, thus giving an unique flavor:

a complex story: it isn't usual to have your "grey matter" working in a movie. My last time was "JFK" (another big conspiracy...?). Human nature likes to ponder, solve questions, so thanks for the authors to offer such pleasure...

the American blockbuster effect to a french set: I am french & lives in Paris, have visited the Louvres museum... So it was great to see my neighborhood directed in a new & speedy way.. The same feeling applies to the cast: Tautou & Reno are very famous here, and hearing them speak fluently English was fun... And Hanks, as excellent wines, ages very well...

the subject, now.... ah!.... well, i don't think a movie (or a book) can erase questions, traditions, beliefs from about 2000 years. Personally, i can watch this movie and read a book from Pope Pie XVI, offered by a friend...

Finally, a essential question: is the movie better than the book ? Well, I am maybe the last human on earth, but I haven't read it. The movie was my first experience of this Da Vinci mania... The only opinion I can give is the basic truth of film-making: pictures have strength than words haven't & vice-versa: The beginning of the story is thus masterly, and the Valette stage is revealing...
NB: "a red gin" is a puzzle: solution is "reading".....