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Three kings

A confident hybrid of M*A*S*H, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Dr. Strangelove, Three Kings is one of the most seriously funny war movies ever made. Improving the premise of Kelly's Heroes with scathing intelligence, it explores the odd connection between war and consumerism in the age of Humvees and cellular phones. Writer-director David O. Russell's third film (after Spanking the Monkey and Flirting with Disaster), it's a no-holds-barred portrait of personal conscience in the volatile arena of politics, played out by one of the most gifted filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze (director of Being John Malkovich) play a quartet of U.S. soldiers who, disillusioned by Operation Desert Storm, decide to steal $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's army. Getting the bullion out of an Iraqi stronghold is easy; keeping it is a potentially lethal proposition. By the end of their mercenary mission, the Americans can no longer ignore wartime atrocities (and neither can we--the film is boldly unflinching), and conscience demands their aid to Iraqi rebels abandoned by President George Bush's fickle wartime policy. This is serious stuff indeed, but Russell infuses Three Kings with a keen sense of the absurd, and the entire film is an exercise in breathtaking visual ingenuity. Despite a conventional ending that's mildly disappointing for such a brashly original film, Three Kings conveys the brutal madness of war while making you laugh out loud at the insanity.

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  • "L'étoile entraîne dans son sillage lumineux les trois voyageurs: Finju, le roi des joueurs de luth, Arno le roi des mendiants et le roi du château. Ils trouvent la misérable cabane qui abrite une famille pauvre et l'enfant dans le berceau. Finju, Arno et le roi posent un geste charitable à leur endroit."
  • "A confident hybrid of M*A*S*H, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Dr. Strangelove, Three Kings is one of the most seriously funny war movies ever made. Improving the premise of Kelly's Heroes with scathing intelligence, it explores the odd connection between war and consumerism in the age of Humvees and cellular phones. Writer-director David O. Russell's third film (after Spanking the Monkey and Flirting with Disaster), it's a no-holds-barred portrait of personal conscience in the volatile arena of politics, played out by one of the most gifted filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, and Spike Jonze (director of Being John Malkovich) play a quartet of U.S. soldiers who, disillusioned by Operation Desert Storm, decide to steal $23 million in gold hijacked from Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's army. Getting the bullion out of an Iraqi stronghold is easy; keeping it is a potentially lethal proposition. By the end of their mercenary mission, the Americans can no longer ignore wartime atrocities (and neither can we--the film is boldly unflinching), and conscience demands their aid to Iraqi rebels abandoned by President George Bush's fickle wartime policy. This is serious stuff indeed, but Russell infuses Three Kings with a keen sense of the absurd, and the entire film is an exercise in breathtaking visual ingenuity. Despite a conventional ending that's mildly disappointing for such a brashly original film, Three Kings conveys the brutal madness of war while making you laugh out loud at the insanity."@en
  • "On a freezing winter night, a young lute player, an old, blind storyteller, and the king of the northern country are brought together to witness the birth of a very special child."

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  • "Children's stories, Afrikaans"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Juvenile works"

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  • "Les trois rois : une légende de Noël"
  • "Three kings"@en
  • "Drie Koningen : een kerstverhaal"
  • "Drei Könige : eine Weinachtslegende"
  • "Drei Könige"
  • "Drei Könige : e. Weihnachtslegende"
  • "Trois rois : une légende de Noël"
  • "Trois rois"
  • "Die drie konings: 'n kerslegende"
  • "Die drie konings"
  • "Drei Könige. Eine Weihnachtslegende"
  • "Drie koningen : een kerstverhaal"
  • "The Three Kings"@en
  • "Drei Könige : Eine Weihnachtslegende"
  • "LES TROIS ROIS"
  • "Drei Könige : eine Weihnachtslegende"
  • "Die drie konings : 'n Kerslegende"
  • "Die drie konings : 'n Kerslegende"@af
  • "Three kings : a Christmas tale"
  • "The Three Kings : a Christmas tale"@en

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