Blueberry (film)
| Blueberry: L'expérience secrète | |
|---|---|
| File:Blueberry movie.jpg Blueberry: L'expérience secrète DVD box art | |
| Directed by | Jan Kounen |
| Written by | Gerard Brach Matt Alexander Jan Kounen |
| Starring | Vincent Cassel Michael Madsen Juliette Lewis |
| Cinematography | Tetsuo Nagata |
| Edited by | Jennifer Augé Bénédicte Brunet Joël Jacovella |
| Music by | Jean-Jacques François Roy |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar (2004) (USA) (as "Renegade") |
Release dates | February 11, 2004 |
Running time | 124 min. |
| Countries | France,Mexico,USA |
| Languages | English, German, French Spanish |
Blueberry (Blueberry: L'expérience secrète) is a French movie adaptation of the popular Franco-Belgian comic book series Blueberry, by Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius) and Jean-Michel Charlier. Very loosely based on the comic (the late Charlier's family disowned the film), the movie stars the French star Vincent Cassel as the title character along with Michael Madsen and Juliette Lewis. Although the film is a French production, the language of the film is in English because the story is set in America's Wild West in the 1870s. Directed by Jan Kounen, the film was released on DVD in America in November 2004 under the title Renegade.
Plot
U.S Marshal Mike Blueberry (referred to as Mike in the film) has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who once took him in as one of their own. The evil actions of a "white sorceror" lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals, to uncover a suppressed memory concerning the death of his lover.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Vincent Cassel | Blueberry |
| Juliette Lewis | Maria |
| Michael Madsen | Wallace Sebastian Blount |
| Temuera Morrison | Runi |
| Ernest Borgnine | Rolling Star |
| Djimon Hounsou | Woodhead |
| Hugh O'Conor | Young Mike |
| Geoffrey Lewis | Sullivan |
| Nichole Hiltz | Lola |
| Kateri Walker | Kateri |
| Vahina Giocante | Madeleine |
| Kestenbetsa | Kheetseen |
| Tchéky Karyo | Uncle |
| Eddie Izzard | Prosit |
| Colm Meaney | McClure |
Behind the Scenes
Jean Giraud, the famous Franco-Belgian comics creator and the illustrator of the original Blueberry comics, has a cameo in the film.
The movie features several elaborate psychedelic 3D computer graphics sequences which portray Blueberry's shamanic experiences from his point of view. The film's director Jan Kounen, drew upon his extensive first hand knowledge ofayahuasca rituals in order to design the visuals for these sequences, Kounen having undergone the ceremony at least a hundred times. In the film, the exact method by which Blueberry has these experiences remains unstated. (Native Americans living in the Southwest United States, where the film takes place, would not have used ayahuasca, as they had no geographic access to it.) These themes do not occur in the Blueberry comics, but only in the adaptation.
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