Horizons perdus

Titre original : Lost Horizon

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Les rescapés d'un accident d'avion se retrouvent dans la vallée isolée de Shangri-La, mais est-elle vraiment l'utopie miraculeuse qu'elle semble être ?Les rescapés d'un accident d'avion se retrouvent dans la vallée isolée de Shangri-La, mais est-elle vraiment l'utopie miraculeuse qu'elle semble être ?Les rescapés d'un accident d'avion se retrouvent dans la vallée isolée de Shangri-La, mais est-elle vraiment l'utopie miraculeuse qu'elle semble être ?

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Récompensé par 2 Oscars
- 3 victoires et 6 nominations au total

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Wyrley Birch

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Beatrice Blinn

Passenger
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Hugh Buckler

Lord Gainsford
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Sonny Bupp

Boy Being Carried to Plane
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John Burton

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Tom Campbell

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Matthew Carlton

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- Frank Capra
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Anecdotes
The year after this film was released the owner of a prosperous theater chain hired an architect who designed a mansion that was inspired by the Shangri-La lamasery in this film. Located in Denver, Colorado, it still exists today.

Gaffes
Echoing the words of the critic, James Agate: 'The best film I've seen for ages, but will somebody please tell me how they got the grand piano along a footpath on which only one person can walk at a time with rope and pickaxe and with a sheer drop of three thousand feet or so?'

Citations
Chang: Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your birthday, you build another fence around your minds.

Crédits fous
Bob Gitt of the UCLA Film & Television Archives claims the original opening sequence in 1937 had title cards "Conway has been sent to evacuate ninety white people before they're butchered in a local revolution" was changed in 1942 for a special reissue during WWII. The title cards read "before innocent Chinese people were butchered by Japanese hordes." This was to bolster propaganda against the Japanese.

Versions alternatives
Some of the music in the restored version is dubbed into different sections than the ones in the 118 minute cut version. For example, the moment in which Robert Conway ('Ronald Colman') discovers that the High Lama is really Father Perrault i accompanied by soft music in the cut version, while in the restored version this moment is played with no music.

Connexions
Edited from Tempête sur le Mont Blanc (1930)

Bandes originales
Wiegenlied (Lullaby) Op. 49 No. 4
(1868) (uncredited)
Composed by Johannes Brahms
English translator unknown
Sung a cappella by children at Shangri-La

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8/10

"I believe it because I want to believe it.."

"I believe it because I want to believe it". This one line speaks volumes about what the movie (and the original novel) was trying to say. The concept of Shangri-La, a place where people work and live in peaceful harmony, is as relevant today as it was in the post-World War I era that James Hilton wrote 'Lost Horizon', where the world was still in turmoil following a devastating war and another was on its way.

In these days of war, humanitarian devastation and disease, how many people are there who dream of getting away from it all and living out their lives in a remote paradise just like Shangri-La? The High Lama's words to Conway resonate strongly even today.

"Look at the world today. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is! What blindness! What unintelligent leadership! A scurrying mass of bewildered humanity, crashing headlong against each other, propelled by an orgy of greed and brutality." On a more cinematographic note, the movie is visually stunning in an age before CGI and astronomical budgets. The beauty of Shangri-La, the stunning mountain landscapes and the overall settings of the movie make us believe that such a wonderful place can exist. All the actors are commendable in their portrayals (though some characters are different to those in the original novel) and their interaction with each other add a real sparkle to the movie.

'Lost Horizon' is a beautiful adaptation of James Hilton's masterpiece and captures the very feeling of the novel and I would highly recommend it to anyone who has ever dreamed of escaping from the hectic world in which we live.