{"id":2020671,"date":"2025-09-14T07:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2020671"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:02:09","slug":"sacrifice-review-romain-gavras-entertaining-eco-satire-has-a-surprisingly-emotional-impact-toronto-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sacrifice-review-romain-gavras-entertaining-eco-satire-has-a-surprisingly-emotional-impact-toronto-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sacrifice\u2019 Review: Romain Gavras\u2019 Entertaining Eco-Satire Has A Surprisingly Emotional Impact \u2013 Toronto Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For a book that not many people know about or have read, James George Frazer\u2019s The Golden Bough (1890) has had quite an impact on cult cinema, particularly in the \u201970s. For reasons that would take too long to go into here \u2014 and thanks to its influence on Joseph Campbell\u2019s 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces \u2014 it turns out that Frazer<\/a>\u2019s non-fiction investigation of religion, mythology, folk tales and the subsequent journey to science has since shaped films as seemingly far afield as The Wicker Man<\/a>, the very first Star Wars, and Apocalypse<\/a> Now. Well, you wouldn\u2019t necessarily ever put those three films on a triple bill, but, once you see it, there is a certain overlap, mostly in the concept of the unwitting hero, a man chosen by fate, and not necessarily for the better.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, Greek-French director Romain Gavras<\/a>\u2019s Sacrifice<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a book that not many people know about or have read, James George Frazer\u2019s The Golden Bough (1890) has had quite an impact on cult cinema, particularly in the \u201970s. For reasons that would take too long to go into here \u2014 and thanks to its influence on Joseph Campbell\u2019s 1949 book The Hero […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2020672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2020671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Sacrifice-Review-Romain-Gavras-Entertaining-Eco-Satire-Has-A-Surprisingly-Emotional.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}