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    The Physician

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    This very long movie, clocking in at short of 3 hours or so is fascinating on several levels. In a very basic premise, a traumatic passing of a mother is the realization that her son, a young boy discovers a special gift of foretelling death. This is just the beginning of a long trip as it were into the discovery of Medieval times, the 11th century to be precise. The film will delve into the world of orphaned children, clairvoyants of a time so long ago, and, of course, medicine, such as it was, in a very dark age, an age of ignorance, superstition and non-education. It would take The Renaissance in the 15th century to awaken the world once again to all the glories of the world, great geniuses sprouting up in every country, especially ITALY where the RENAISSANCE all began.

    This historical journey in the fiction format gives us one enlightening yet rather moribund view of a period known as THE DARK AGES, as noted above. The film is based on the novel of Noah Gordon, an excellent read. The film spares nothing of the graphic, whether violence, sexuality or nudity so if you are squeamish this is not the film for you. The screenplay by Jan Berger tries its best to capture the enormous essence of the novel as does director Philip Stozl. The music by Ingo Frenzel is vital for a film of this proportion. The cast comprises some awesome names among whom are Tom Payne, Sir Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgaard who seems to be in every other movie I see.

    This is a film on an epic proportion. We have all studied Medieval History, but one will get a sense of it like never before as we are faced with almost every aspect of life at its crudest in an age that literally produced nothing of worth for humankind. It's as if a pall had come over Europe and many other parts of the world.

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    pietroantoni@  2.4.2015 age: 36-49 14,540 reviews

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