Time Has Come

You need to see these men questioning their sexuality and their love in the middle of the countryside, while they are chasing after some bad guys or trying to save some unjustly accused person, to understand how much Guiraudian space is a space of utopia. Voici venu le temps (Time Has Come), at once serene (in form) and restless (in content), shines with a dark glow. Here is a film that brings to mind Jacques Tourneur’s The Flame and the Arrow, where the small utopian community living in the forest and fighting against the master of the castle is not so far removed from Guiraudian characters. The same calm, the same tranquillity, the same discretion, and at the same time, the same assurance here as there is with the American master. (Jean-Sébastien Chauvin; Chronicart)