At the heart of the dense filmography of Woody Allen , which this week celebrates his eighty years, Match Point is one of the major films. Aired tonight on the airwaves of Chérie 25, the film appears as a form of comeback of the New York filmmaker, who remained at the time on a series of minor films or big failures. A comeback that passes through the start of a European tour ( Match Point was initially turn in New York, but the previous failures of Allen have made too complicated financing in the US ); and a name. that of Scarlett Johansson , Woody brought into the circle of his muses, those that accompanied most of his classic
The actress radiates Indeed the screen each of his appearances in Match Point , where she succumbed Jonathan Rhys Meyers to its charms time for a table tennis as part high voltage where a rainy walk in the fields. Catapulted thanks in large part to this film to the rank of Hollywood sex symbol, the lovely Scarlett signed by the first of his three movies with Woody Allen .
The shared history between actress and director have yet never been born. Not only Woody Allen was indeed not the name of Scarlett Johansson in mind when writing the film, but it was not she who was cast to First to embody the seductive disorder game Nola Rice. The role would indeed have been played by a British actress, not least since it was Kate Winslet , Scarlett Johansson has replaced a few days before shooting begins. In his book of interviews with Eric Lax, Woody Allen came back to the imbroglio that led to the defection last minute actress Titanic , with its sense the usual humor.
Given the European funding, I thought I have to choose the players registered in the European Union, [...] including the wonderful Kate Winslet. But shortly before the shooting, she felt she had worked too long and neglected his child from one film to another. She wanted to stay with her family, and she withdrew. I sent him a note: “Believe me, my priority to me either not to make movies no problem Maybe one day we will have another project together…”
Following the departure of Kate Winslet , Woody Allen think to go in search of an English actress to replace her, but Last discovers with his producer (and also his sister) Letty Aronson the cast already includes British actors of the quota requires that the financing of the film in the UK. It was then that choice turns to Scarlett Johansson , he had discovered in Ghost World Terry Zwigoff and Lost in Translation Sofia Coppola . Engaged in just a few hours, the character was rewritten to make her an American: “ It was no problem It did not take more than an hour .” Confiait- . it about that the Guardian in 2008
Although it took: incandescent, Scarlett Johansson instantly captures the eye of the viewer in each of his appearances. “ It is sensual. She has a beautiful face, full of character and pretty, of course, and a gorgeous body. And all of this, it’s like Marilyn Monroe, it can not be the analyze. We can only observe this alchemy. Everything is harmonized, his personality, his voice, his look, his eyes, his weight, his lips, everything is in harmony so that, somehow, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts “, he said about him in the book of Eric Lax.
The meeting of these two talents was the most fruitful in the end. Considered by the filmmaker himself as one of his most successful films, Match Point reaped a triumphant critical reception, especially following its presentation at Cannes in 2005, out of competition as usual. first , at the time, had joined the chorus of praise: “ Woody weaves a web that tends to progressively until reaching its breaking point (. …) The stylistic leitmotifs (…) are integral with the point. The English phrasing brings a unique flavor to dialogues (…) And the actors are all perfect “. The film will stall an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay and the César Award for Best Foreign Film, and four Golden Globe nominations.
Match Point ended a long series performance-against Woody Allen at the box office, earning $ 85 million in revenue for only 15 million budget. In France, the film surpassed the million and a half entries, making it now the sixth best result of the filmmaker in France in its forty-seven feature films. The shooting took place meanwhile so good Woody Allen wrote immediately thereafter a custom role to explore a lighter side of the game of the actress. It will be Scoop , which hit theaters the following year and in which ScarJo starred with him at the time that becomes his favorite director.
L history of Match Point Chris Wilton, an Irish tennis player and penniless, unable to break into the London high society. Everything changes when he meets his future sister-Nola Rice, a failed actress. About to marry Chloe with wealthy, the fact continues nevertheless a passionate relationship with Nola.
Match Point is broadcast tonight at 8:55 p.m. on Honey 25.
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