Stumbling onto this film today, after puzzling over the nature of time earlier, and even bringing up some of my short past-life flashbacks, is synchronistic, to say the least.
I found it after catching a glimpse of an actress with a striking face on French TV. Discovering her name and stalking her to the IMDB, I discovered that she was Irish, and that she'd also starred in a UK TV series I'd never heard of named "Labyrinth." No, not the older film of the same name, a more recent series, from 2012. Investigating further, I found that it had been executive produced by none other than Ridley Scott and Tony Scott. Unable to stop digging into it by this time, I then discovered that the series is based on a very popular novel I'd never heard of by the same name, and that the novel itself was based on Cathar history, myth, and legend. That pretty much nailed it, so I downloaded it, and have just finished watching it. Great, it's not. But good, and entertaining, it was, especially because much of it was filmed in Carcassonne and Montsegur and in other Cathar strongholds and areas that I know intimately from having been there many times. It's basically a Dan Brown-like riff, combining modern-day characters with their counterparts 800 years ago. Cathar history it ain't, but it's better than a lot of Neo-Cathar fantasies I've read, even though it can't avoid the cliche of making the supposed "treasure of Montsequr" the holy grail. Besides, it was only two episodes of an hour and a half each, so it was an interesting way to spend the day. It's probably available on DVD or Bluray if anyone is interested. If nothing else, you'll get to see what the Cathar country I'm so enamored with in the south of France looks like. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzBdoNeAzHw>
