Vidocq, Brotherhood of the Wolf, and the Lost Future of French Genre Cinema
I am no longer sure how I first saw Vidocq , or whether my memory of Brotherhood of the Wolf belongs more to the cinema or the DVD shelf. The uncertainty has become part of the memory. I know roughly when I encountered them and what they felt like at the time, but not whether either recollection begins in a cinema seat, in front of a television, in a rental shop, or somewhere in the early-internet haze of trailers, covers, recommendations, and half-remembered searches. With Le pacte des loups , released in Sweden as Vargarnas pakt , the record is clearer. The Swedish Film Database records a cinema release on 5 October 2001 , followed by a Swedish DVD release in February 2002. Vidocq seems more likely to belong to the next layer of discovery: the DVD shelf, an imported recommendation, or an online search that led to something strange but suddenly obtainable. The same database lists Scanbox as its Swedish DVD distributor in 2003 , which fits my recollection better than a conventional...