WE HAVE SEEN – At the opening of the Berlinale, the Americans put everyone in a good mood with their new film, brilliant satire of the Hollywood of the 1950s. in French theaters next Wednesday.
We left the Coen brothers in the role of presidents of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in May. They are found in open competition of the Berlinale with what they do best. Movies. And even very good films.
Before the launch of this 66th edition, Dieter Kosslick, festival director, stressed the fact that many films scheduled echoed the tragic news of our violent world. Refugees and migrants wait. Thursday night, with Ave Caesar! , festival goers were treated to an orgy of glamor and humor. . A cocktail which only the Coen secrecy
In the credits of their new film, we find The Usual Suspects and new faces, but only great people: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Tilda Swinton, Alden Ehrenreich … You need at least that to recreate the Hollywood of the 1950s
the Coen make an ironic and twisted tribute to the golden age of studios telling the crazy day Eddie Mannix. A crazy day. Mannix is set for the account of the Capitol studio – the real Mannix worked for MGM. He “repairs” everything that goes wrong. It puts oil in the wheels of the dream factory. Half guardian angel half prison guard, he keeps an eye on the players away from the tabloids, defuse rumors.
Between two meetings with representatives of religious communities to validate an adaptation of the Bible in Technicolor, Mannix will have to handle the case DeeAnna Moran, queen of the water ballet in the Esther Williams or chaperone Hobie Doyle, promising young studio specializing in musical western, very strong but no roping everything else, propelled into the decor of a psychological drama directed by Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes).
Mannix is found mostly Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, imperial), the star of the Capitol, the nincompoop oversized ego, who is kidnapped in filming of a biblical epic by a band of communist writers ! The dialogues fuse. The players play the game with admirable masochism.
grumpy say that Ave Caesar! is a minor film in the course of the Coen, preferring probably Barton Fink . The Palme d’Or at the throes of a screenwriter in Hollywood has yet not aged. His serious bored where Ave Caesar! seduced by his fancy.
It would be more accurate to speak of a thumbnail. It condenses all their obsessions and their vision of cinema. They who keep revisiting genres, film noir ( Miller’s Crossing ) and western ( True Grit ), through parody ( Burn After Reading ) are here fun pastiche of the epic or the musical. The Coen reminder that Hollywood is an insane asylum. But an asylum without which we would be bored to death.
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