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The Last Panthers Recap: Death Sentence
John Hurt as Tom. Photo: Stephane Remael/Sundance
The fifth episode of The Last Panthers is the most focused and accomplished to date. It’s an immensely satisfying hour, enough so that it’s worth wondering why its flashbacks weren’t sewn into the premiere.
For four episodes, we’ve had to puzzle through the exact history between diamond thief Milan (Goran Bogdan) and insurance-loss agent Naomi (Samantha Morton). We knew their paths had crossed — Milan recognized her at the end of the first episode and Naomi mentioned their history in Bosnia — but we didn’t know the details until now. If the opening-episode heist had segued right into tonight’s lengthy flashback, it may have given Milan and Naomi’s arcs the weight that they were arguably missing from episodes two to four, as Khalil (Tahar Rahim) became the more interesting character. We’re here, though, and I’m happy we finally made it. This episode features the strongest writing and acting so far. It’s a testament to two things: What Samantha Morton can do when she’s given a juicy role, and how detailed the storytelling has become on this series, which tells a story in which there are no true heroes or villains.
In a devastating prologue, we see Milan running. He knows Zlatko (
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ByRobyn Sassenon
JUST WHEN YOU think your hero has met the greatest challenge he’s capable of weathering, he pops to the surface to return victorious again, all cleaned up with the scars on the inside. This is the message prominent in Michael Moer’s reworking and direction of Papillon for 2018 audiences. The story, based on fact, was popularised in the 1973 filmed version of the work, with Steve McQueen in the lead opposite Dustin Hoffman. The eponymous book was published four years earlier, and rapidly became part of popular culture’s most important block buster and a must-have on everyone’s book shelf. The film rocked box offices and popular imagination, then. In the same kind of thinking that brought A Star is Born to cinematic life for contemporary audiences this year, Papillon is here.
You’re never quite given to understand why Henri Charrière (Charlie Hunnam) is known as Papillon (butterfly, in French), but you’re so quickly swept away on the horns of a tale of intrigue and dishonesty, jewel thieves and evil behind the scenes, that you forgive this. Papillon is a story of unabated cruelty and its corollary: deep friendship in men in a context where you might believe is more about the selfis