Un roi sans divertissement

A very interesting film, with the fantastic atmosphere of a remote village in the middle of snowy mountains. The unexpectedly calm, emotionally unstressed scene of the meeting between the captain and the killer is excellent, I enjoyed every second. But that’s where the good things end. I really don’t like it, I actually hate it when live animals are killed for the sake of a film, as is the case here; not artificial mannequins, but real living beings. I could still stomach the wolf and the thrush, it wasn't so obvious there, but the severed head of the goose at the end, with the body still shaking in death convulsions, dripping blood, was too much for me. I experienced something this shocking a long time ago, in Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, where a poor turtle is slaughtered on camera, and it was the same here. No movie justifies killing a living being just to make a scene look spectacular. No a single one! Without rating. (14.10.2018)