Of course, the comparison was difficult. In our imagination of spectators, “films on marital dashes”, there were diamonds Anatomy of a fall, Kramer against Kramer, marriage history, scenes of a marriage made by the elderly. EITHER Rose war 1980 version, controlled by actor and filmmaker Danny Devito (Matilda, a duplex for three), with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in the couple’s skin on the edge of the nervous breakdown.
A muscular heritage, however it did not cooled to the brave Jay Roach (Scandal, my stepfather and me either DinnerAmerican adaptation Cons dinner) Imagine a new corrosive version of Rose warTaken from Warren Adler’s homonymous novel, published in 1981. Let’s greet at least Audacy.
Absolute hate
In this new version distributed by Disney, in theaters this Wednesday, it is this time Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman (launch no more unpleasant, say) who give the replica. They form a united, loving and mocking couple, served by well distributed, with perfect marmotes, easy smiles, ascending races, large SUV, large house with bright windows.
But Patatras. Everything changes to a storm night: he is put at the door of his architecture cabinet, while his wife, she is strongly applauded and begins to make a name among the best chefs in the country. Cross destinations, opposite destinations.
The two, devoured by her ego (one more than the other anyway) and her frustrations (she accuses him of having transformed her children into machines with sports performance, he blames her lack of participation; she points to freedom, seeks success), will gradually move away, she will hate himself. Even too climbing and absolute hate.
Dramatic comedy unfortunately only avoids climbing. At first, the two tortolites love themselves with madness, in a look (can we still believe in this type of couple with frankness?), They promise several times an eternal love, hope, they project themselves, they walk in silence with their American life path successful and his feeling of invincibility in the back. And, in the end, he tear too brutally to be credible.
Of course, realism is not the goal of its director or screenwriter Tony McNamara (author of The Cynic Poor creatures), but his satire seems so demonstrative that he avoids any emotion and ends up annoying.
Prestigious casting
Unlike Rose war Since 1989, new generation domestic comedy turns out to be better in its interstices. Neither in marriage happiness, nor in the wild rivalry, but rather in the staging of the small daily cowards of the spouses, and their desire, mutual, sincere, of understanding, of trying again.
Oscariize Olivia Colman (The favorite, the Empire of Light, the Crown …) He leaves perfectly in the registration of this spicy wife, with this cunning and tender air that has always lived on his face and his almost natural protuberances. Benedict Cumberbatch, square shoulders and a haughty bust, opposes a deep and perfectly proud appearance.
But its deconstruction of the illusions ofAmerican dream It seems seen, even outdated. And one still wonders if the final scene, when the rabbiboche couple after having launched the machete and the revolver, is not disturbing, if it does not cause #Metoo. Even in the initial version of 1989, they had not dared.
Source: BFM TV
