William Tell

2024
2h 13min

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Dans la Suisse du XIVe siècle, un chasseur autrefois pacifique mène son peuple à la rébellion après que sa famille et son pays ont été menacés par un roi autrichien tyrannique.Dans la Suisse du XIVe siècle, un chasseur autrefois pacifique mène son peuple à la rébellion après que sa famille et son pays ont été menacés par un roi autrichien tyrannique.Dans la Suisse du XIVe siècle, un chasseur autrefois pacifique mène son peuple à la rébellion après que sa famille et son pays ont été menacés par un roi autrichien tyrannique.

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NOTE IMDb

7,3/10

MA NOTE

POPULARITÉ

3 585

218

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Sortie le 10 janvier 2025

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Anecdotes
Despite being a national hero in Switzerland, there is no concrete historical evidence that William Tell ever existed.

The earliest written account of the story appears in a 15th-century chronicle called the "White Book of Sarnen", more than a century after the events are supposed to have taken place.

Furthermore, the act of the hero shooting an apple from his son's head stems from the saga of Toko, who was a servant of the Danish King Harald Bluetooth, who died in 985. Likewise, Toko's story was written down more than two hundred years later, in the epic tale "Gesta Danorum".

Many historians view William Tell as a purely legendary figure, though his story was deeply embedded in Swiss national identity by the time of its writing.

Gaffes
Crossbow bolts were stabilized by vanes made from parchment, wood or even metal. Feathers, as depicted in the film, were generally not used. Also, crossbows usually took 30 to 60 seconds to reload and were thus exclusively used as sniper weapons.

The crossbows shown made use of steel, while in fact the bows at the time were made from wood, or they were glued composite bows (animal horn and wood).

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5/10

Fun fight scenes cannot save this pretentious - somewhat bloated movie.

I watched the world premiere of William Tell at the Toronto International Film Festival (2024).

The presenter of the festival had said before the movie, "they don't make movies like this anymore". I assumed that was a positive thing.

Unfortunately, it really wasn't. The biggest issue of the movie was the language used.

This is a 14th-century period piece that involved the Swiss and Austrians. But for whatever reason the dialogue was written in something that sounded like a high-schooler's approximation of Victorian English.

According to the director, he wrote the dialogue to have language unique to the film. Maybe to assist in some sense of believability within this world. Instead the film was often hard to follow. Character motivations were lost in the flowery, disjointed language.

That being said - the cast did their absolute best with the film. Golshifteh Farahani, Connor Swindells, Rafe Spall, and Ellie Bamber were standouts.

Don't go to see the film for Ben Kingsley - he was barely in it and his performance felt completely phoned in.

If you're okay with 2-hours of mindlessness as you watch beautiful scenery and cool fight scenes - I think there is enough to enjoy.

The movie set up a sequel. I do hope it can be made, and some changes to how dialogue and character interactions are done will be made.