The Pact of Wolves: Christophe Gans tells us (almost) all the secrets of the film

The influence of Hong Kong and the video game SoulCalibur, the hidden details of 4K restoration… Gans is emptying his bag, more than twenty years after the triumph of the Pact of Wolves.

The Wolf Pact was released in French theaters in June 2022, in a restored 4K version (a Blu-ray version has since followed), and it will return this evening on Cstar.

Triumphant upon its theatrical release in 2001 (more than 5 million admissions!), Christophe Gans' film remains a true cinema miracle, mixing all of its director's cinema influences (kung fu, monsters, swashbuckling epic) around the Beast of Gévaudan in the fantasized Auvergne of 1766.

The restored version was screened in Cannes in the beach cinema, and on this occasion, we met Christophe Gans: the interview was supposed to last twenty minutes, we stayed for almost an hour talking about the fascinating The Wolf Pacthis influences ranging from Hong Kong cinema to video games (it's SoulCalibur which inspired Vincent Cassel's whip-sword). And lots of other things: what Jean-Pierre Jeunet (author of the other 2001 triumph called Amélie Poulain) when the film was released, why did the filmmaker consider that The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez is the ultimate French film, how the 4K restoration revealed buried details of the Pactwhy this film was a hit and why it had to remain without descendants… In short, a fascinating encounter that you can watch now:

The story of the Wolf Pact: In 1766, a mysterious beast raged in the Gévaudan mountains and caused numerous victims, without anyone being able to identify or kill it. People are afraid. It is a monster from hell or a punishment from God. The affair quickly took on a national dimension and undermined the authority of the King. The knight Grégoire De Fronsac, a naturalist in addition, was then sent to the Gévaudan region to paint a portrait of the beast. A beautiful mind, frivolous and rational, he is accompanied by the strange and taciturn Mani, an Indian from the Mohawk tribe. The latter settled with the Marquis Thomas d'Apcher. During an evening given in his honor, Fronsac met Marianne De Morangias as well as her brother Jean-François, heirs of the most influential family in the country. Fronsac soon encountered the animosity of influential people in the region.

Trailer:

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