Entre a Luz E as Trevas

Título original: The Hour of the Pig

1993
R
1 h 52 min

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6,6/10

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Colin Firth, Lysette Anthony, and Amina Annabi in Entre a Luz E as Trevas (1993)

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Na França medieval, o advogado Richard Courtois deixou Paris para uma vida mais simples. Entretanto, é atraído por intrigas amorosas e políticas. Ao mesmo tempo, é forçado a defender um porc... Ler tudoNa França medieval, o advogado Richard Courtois deixou Paris para uma vida mais simples. Entretanto, é atraído por intrigas amorosas e políticas. Ao mesmo tempo, é forçado a defender um porco, que foi preso pelo assassinato de uma criança.Na França medieval, o advogado Richard Courtois deixou Paris para uma vida mais simples. Entretanto, é atraído por intrigas amorosas e políticas. Ao mesmo tempo, é forçado a defender um porco, que foi preso pelo assassinato de uma criança.

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Curiosidades
Based on genuine court proceedings against animals.

Erros de gravação
In the epilogue crawl, the character name Mathieu is spelled once correctly, and in a subsequent paragraph as Mathiew.

Citações
[Richard is nude and embarrassed]
Maria: Don't worry, I have brothers.

Versões alternativas
The Hour of the Pig was released in the United States by Miramax as The Advocate. Harvey Weinstein was actively involved in the cuts of films distributed by Miramax, this film was no exception. For US release, the film was trimmed down, including a sex scene, that was edited in part to avoid a stronger than R rating. The name of the film was changed as part of an advertising campaign. The US film poster and opening crawl instruct the audience not to "reveal the client". The campaign did not improve sales for the film. The UK version was released on VHS. Only the shorter (R-rated) version of the film was released to VHS or DVD in North America. The full version has been released on DVD and screened on television in some European countries. Besides the titles, there are many differences between The Advocate (US) and The Hour Of The Pig (UK). These include: US version begins with music from the film and an opening crawl of text. UK version goes straight into the film. The US and UK versions end with different text before the end credits roll. Different voice takes for some scenes Different music or no music for some scenes Amina Annabi's voice is dubbed in the US version A speech made towards the end of the film by Donald Pleasence was shortened for the US version In the original version, Sophie Dix gives a short voice-over at the end of the film. In the US version, Jim Carter gives a short voice-over near the beginning of the film, and near the end.

Conexões
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Natural Born Killers/Blankman/Fresh/Wagons East/The Advocate (1994)

Trilhas sonoras
Quant Voi en la Fin D'este
Written by Perrin D'Agincourt
Performed by the St. George's Canzona
Counter-tenor, Derek Harrison
Arranged by John Sothcott
Courtesy of CRD Records

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7/10

Solid film that never overcomes quirk factor

I saw this film as "The Advocate," not that it matters, but just so you know. The place where I rented it didn't have the original box, so I had NO idea what the film was about. I was, um, surprised.

Colin Firth plays a 15th-century lawyer (called an advocate) who moves to the country from Paris. He wants to get in touch with the real essence of the law, defending the common folk and such. As it turns out, animals can be charged with crimes as well. Poor Colin finds himself defending rats and a pig in open court. (I could make a really obvious crack about the parallels to the practices of modern law, but that's a tad crass. Truthful, but crass.)

The film's claim that the secret of the movie is along the same lines of "The Crying Game" is surely meant as a joke. Still, the movie spends too much dwelling on the absurdity of defending animals and not enough time finding a story to tell. There is some twaddle about defending a beautiful gypsy woman's pig in a murder trial, but it is never gripping or, sadly, interesting.

The acting make up for the triteness of the story, though. Firth is solid and has some great scenes with the Seigneur who owns the land and the village Firth comes to reside in. There is also a small appearance by the wonderful, underrated, nuanced, subtle IAN HOLM~ as a shady priest. The cast raises the film from the status of sideshow curiosity.

While the "Crying Game" style secret is a reference to the murder case that is (ultimately) shuffled off to the side of the movie, I have no problem revealing another big secret of "The Advocate": the sow is really a hog!!!