Being John Malkovich (1999)
Charlie Kaufman, it all started in the head of someone else. In 1999, the shaggy young man of 41 years old from New York, drags painfully shy and unlikely scenario.
Being John Malkovich tells how a puppeteer unemployed enters the body of a famous actor. In Hollywood and in the world of TV, where Kaufman freelancing for sitcoms, everyone finds his brilliant but unfeasible idea. Until one day … Spike Jonze! Thirty years all round, freshly married to Sofia Coppola, he is a photographer, filmmaker and skate boarder clips. Hollywood makes eyes at him.
He stumbles across the Kaufman script. Contacted by Studio Ciné Live the person recalls: “I did not think this scenario would become a film I had written years ago for fun Sometimes I m.. ‘use as a business card, but I could see that people thought I was crazy. Basically, it’s a pretty simple love story. the imagination did the rest. ”
But why John Malkovich? “It represented something refined and, above all, his name sounded wonderful.” The film also.
A rain of Oscar nominations, including one for Kaufman. Three years later the pair Jonze-Kaufman explores the identity crisis again with Adaptation , where the writer is projected into the skin of both Nicolas Cage. Unless it is the opposite.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003)
The Oscar nominations are wriggle Kaufman Hollywood. We spend it all. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is the incredible story of a star TV presenter, coupled with an officer C.I.A. Lies and truths intertwine.
The directors waltz: Fincher, Aronovsky, Singer … This will ultimately Clooney Kaufman never really met, “See her work is very painful escape My scenario is passed from hand to hand. . Clooney never consulted me. ” Kaufman quickly sidesteps the debate.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The wacky Kaufman and Gondry bricolo were made to meet. In the wake of Malkovich , Charlie signed the script of Human Nature (2001), a wild comedy (and missed!) That Gondry stages. But for them, the big night arrives with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, romantic comedy in which two lovers are forced to erase their memories.
This time it is the Oscar, Charlie shared with his brother Donald, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth artist. This statuette of cutting allows the writer not to over expose. Kaufman shuns flashes, even if he has learned to communicate with journalists.
At the other end, we feel that exercising weighs him still a little: “At the time of Eternal … I stayed the usually in my den, but Michel insisted that I come on the set. I thought I was undesirable and felt that everyone was looking at me funny looks. ” Charlie paranoid? “A little, like everyone else, right?” Or not.
Anomalisa (2016)
After the success Sunshine, Kaufman finally out of the box and started directing. With Synecdoche, New York (2009), explores the agonies of creation and love life. Not bad. Today is glare. The melancholic Anomalisa , animated film in stop motion, co-directed by Duke Johnson, tells the parenthesis (some) Enchanted morosely fifties in a Cincinnati hotel.
This is the time to take stock of the autobiographical part of his work: “Cinema is a projection case Everything I write comes out of the tunnel of my imagination and contains a share. myself. the hero of Anomalisa has written a baptized guide How can I help you help? However, he is overwhelmed by the gloom of its existence. who will help him? Design a movie, it’s like writing a survival guide. it does not mean that the author is invincible! ” At home, the I is not really another. Everyone is cordially invited to enter the skin of Charlie.
Anomalisa Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson , with the VO voice of Jennifer Jason Leigh … Release: February 3
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