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

Missionary
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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

Wynant
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Tom Campbell

Porter
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Matthew Carlton

Pottery Maker
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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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7/10

A beautiful film

Many people may not be drawn to a film like this because it doesn't involve a lot of conflict, and that lack of conflict does make it slow-going at times, but it's still a beautiful film. The sets are wonderfully designed for a modestly budgeted (though it was a big budget at the time) motion picture. Ronald Coleman is a terrific actor, with a dominant screen presence and a certain strength in his voice. The film delivers a good deal of life lessons, and Shangri-La really does look like a great place to live. They believe in doing everything "in moderation," which is a fine philosophy. No wars, very little conflict, everyone's in good health. Can't complain about a place like that. The ending is especially poignant. One minor flaw is the lack of development of the prostitute. She's the only character who doesn't have an arc, and holds much contempt throughout the whole film. I wanted to know the source of her contempt. I never gathered why she was so whiny.

If you want to see a beautiful, feel-good movie with great performances, then "Lost Horizon" is the one to see.

My score: 7 (out of 10)