“Sicario” 5 reasons to go see this thriller overkill – TF1

In Sicario Denis Villeneuve, thriller under very high pressure, is followed for more than two hours, Kate ( Emily Blunt ), rookie FBI is designated to help a group intervention against drug trafficking, led by Reggie, an agent (Josh Brolin) and hunt down one of the leading barons. The team is guided by a mysterious Colombian consultant ( Benicio Del Toro ). Kate, full of ideals and loving justice, finds himself plunged into a chaotic situation where the secret services are freed of laws, legal and necessary alibi to validate the behavior of others. The result, hot as hell, deserves your attention. Here are five good reasons to go today.

1. Because this is the best film director Denis Villeneuve
Before the last Cannes Film Festival begins, Denis Villeneuve stated that Sicario , in competition, was his ” Best Picture “suggesting that this film marked a true surpassing an already dense and unique filmography. From the director Fire, Prisoners and Enemy: , we were curious to see the results. It is clear that he has not lied about the goods.

2. Because in the register of the narco-thriller, Sicario is the top of the basket Interested
for years by what is happening at the border between the US and Mexico, this area of ​​the dangers under the control of cartels and their extreme violence and specific location of the American continent, Villeneuve has used the atmosphere and genre codes to tell America how idealism can collide realism, how convictions fail in the field when it comes to face the problems of other countries. In other words, it is an inexorable in darkness.

3. In the view of a woman in a man’s world
Villeneuve develops these moral ambivalence of a female point of view, that of the young rookie FBI (Emily Blunt), only in a man’s world. It is through her, like a double viewer, that the action is lived and it is through his eyes that metamorphose men. Adopting this principle immersive initiation, the staging of Villeneuve works entirely on the notion of perspective. It is so efficient and so demanding that we come to forget that the secondary characters as they hide a dark side.

4. Because the actors are always in Denis Villeneuve because
Denis Villeneuve ran quite masterfully five stars in its cast Prisoners (Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Maria Bello, Viola Davis Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano) and Enemy: (Jake Gyllenhaal again, Sarah Gadon, Melanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini), he manages to offer in Sicario gold role to Benicio Del Toro, really crazy in this register, and reveal Emily Blunt in an unpublished regitsre for her.

5. Because it does not rely on appearances …
its theme and the presence in the credits of an imperial Benicio Del Toro Sicario can evoke area Traffic Steven Soderbergh, another film about cartels on the Mexican border – the actor had also received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2001. But do not be fooled by appearances. It is much closer to that Kathryn Bigelow had dared Locker especially Dark Zero 30 . At the helm of this dark thriller, sparkling, Denis Villeneuve also tells a moral fable about good and evil in a twilight world, with the same documentary precision and virtuosity in any muscles that great thrillers of William Friedkin.

“Sicario”, in theaters this Wednesday.