“Danny. Legend. God” is a UK-Bulgarian production and the first film of Yavor Petkov, available on May 3 on platforms including Amazon Prime. The film won 2 awards, one for “best feature film” at the Cardiff International Film Festival and one for “Best Cinematographer” for Rumen Vasilev at the Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film.
This film is a mockumentary (type of film showing depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary) in which we find an English film crew composed of Susan (played by Kate Nichols), Jaime (played by James Ryan Babson) the soundman and a cameraman. This team follows Danny (played by Dimo Alexiev), a Bulgarian businessman with a totally uncontrolled and unhealthy behavior. We will follow him in his professional and personal relationships, but the film crew will quickly face Danny’s deviances.
The film presents Danny as having a behavior close to madness and psychopathy, not regretting any of his acts and having an almost divine self-esteem.
Dimo Alexiev’s performance is very impressive, he interprets perfectly the role that was given to him, but this is not enough to give a real interest to the film, which suffers from a cruel lack of rhythm that makes the film very complicated to digest. Greatly inspired by Man Bites Dog (1992), with Benoît Poelvoorde, the mockumentary format is still very complicated to handle, which can quickly drift towards heaviness, lose its realistic side and thus lose its primary interest.
Everything is done here to make Danny’s character seem as detestable as possible without really doing half measures. As the film progresses, Danny’s behavior becomes more and more oppressive, he takes total control of what is filmed. Susan decides to leave the shoot, leaving Jaime and the cameraman in the grip of the furious and uncontrollable Danny.
Beyond his inappropriate and sometimes childish behavior, the film tries to draw the portrait of a Bulgarian elite, who bathes in corruption and for whom money allows them to reach the rank of god. This elite no longer respects the laws or any form of rule, and seems to think that their life is more valuable than others’.
This film will certainly please the fans of Mockumentary but will surely have difficulty convincing the rest of the spectators, because of its slowness, and its lack of subtlety.
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