Far from Men

Far from Men (French: Loin des hommes) is a 2014 French drama film directed by David Oelhoffen. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

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• Cast
• Critical reception
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The film is based on a short story by Albert Camus from his Exile and the Kingdom collection. Entitled The Guest and set in French Colonial Algeria, the narrative follows Daru, a reclusive, pacifist, Algerian-born French teacher of Spanish decent (Viggo Mortensen) tasked with delivering Mohammad, a docile Algerian murder suspect (Reda Kateb), into the hands of French authorities as the Algerian War of Independence ignites.

The French title "L'Hôte" translates into both "the guest" and "the host".

Mortensen (who also co-produced the film) says that, as he was making the film, he thought about "European versus native populations in America, but also about Gaza" and "the artificial country called Iraq that was created by Europeans and is now falling apart.

According to Manohla Dargis of The New York Times, "although Camus sets the movie's initial course, Oelhoffen resolutely steers it home with political context, historical hindsight, an unambiguous moral imperative and a pair of well-matched performances. In French and Maghrebi Arabic with English subtitles.

Cast

Viggo Mortensen as Daru

Reda Kateb as Mohamed

Djemel Barek as Slimane

Vincent Martin as Balducci

Nicolas Giraud as Lieutenant Le Tallec

Jean-Jerome Esposito as Francis

Hatim Sadiki as Abdelkader

Yann Goven as Rene

Antoine Régent as Claude

Critical reception

The movie was well received by the critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 79% of 24 critics gave the film a positive review, for an average rating of 6.8/10. Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a "generally favorable" average score of 74, based on 13 reviews.