It is rare enough to be underlined. The tenth feature film of the American Paul Thomas Anderson, who marks the return to the big screen of Leonardo DiCaprio after Flower moon murderers Martin Scorsese in 2023, seems to leave everyone in agreement. From its staging to the performance of its actors, including its spinning script, One battle after another Fix criticism.
On the Parisian side, one wonders directly if this western ColdBut breathless, on the undulating roads of the United States it is not “the best film of the year.” At least, “without a doubt Paul Thomas Anderson’s most important feature,” The Daily said.
The last job of the filmmaker of Licorice pizza, There will be blood Ghost thread, pitillo-marmon EITHER MagnoliaThat it benefited from a budget between $ 130 and $ 175 million according to IMDB, it could, according to the New York Times, “win appointments in all categories and finally offer PTA (the filmmaker’s nickname) the Supreme Oscar.”
This western to Horcajadas on comedy and thriller, very freely adapted from the novel Vineland By Thomas Pynchon – PTA had already put images in another of his books, with Inherent vice In 2014, he tells the story of an ancient revolutionary of distant drowned in alcohol and drugs (Leonardo DiCaprio) in search of his daughter (Chase Infiniti), kidnapped by his old enemy, Colonel Lockjaw (Sean Penn).
Already pursues the cult
Its scenario, already has every genius: “The first brief historical part of the film already hits crazy energy and licked the reconstruction, and the rest will be crescendo. Even an infernal final prosecution of a car that will mark the history of cinema,” will simply come out.
“The set is visually sublime, captured in view vision […] An effect that, far from being a gadget, gives a crazy amplitude to certain sequences, including the unforgettable, and very referenced new Hollywood, of a persecution on a mountainous path, where all the tension is found in these nearby plans where we see that the road appears and disappears according to the crests “, the comments, slid fun. “
On the other side of the Atlantic, Famous Variety “a captivating master class that manages the absurd, satire and suspense.” “I laughed throughout the movie, it’s probably Anderson’s funniest movie, and in the end, I was so moved that I was crying,” Brett Arnold said, from the American podcast Roger (Ebert) and me. For the British newspaper Le Guardian, One battle after another It is an “exciting and crazy counterculture film.”
The director Steven Spielberg was one of the first to cry genius: “Everything is really incredible. It is a mixture of things that are strange and very relevant.”
America today
Not only “notable” in its form, One battle after another Also reserve a “visionary” painting of America. For Télérama, the 55 -year -old filmmaker “looks at America in the eyes”, while for the Inrocks, “PTA signs the impressive portrait of a chaotic and violently polarized America,” which makes him his “great epic and political film.”
According to The Monthly, the thriller “crystallizes, in a madly attractive gesture, all the political neuroses of the time: violent activism, white supremacism, generational conflict. While the diet in its place comes, in the smoking body of Charlie Kirk, to relaunch a search for witch for Maccarthyst, One battle after another Shipment […] To the Basques of a group of activists from distant “
For Franceinfo, the filmmaker uses great success codes to “denounce Trump’s supremacist abuses” and deliver “a deeply humanistic film”, which “never releases his characters.”
“Paul Thomas Anderson also tells us about America today, with a certain nostalgia for yesterday, and the dangers that runs with its correct and right -wing extremists like Nazis, and its magician billionaires […] In the shadows to “clean” the country of everything they exercise, migrants, blacks, leftist, poor … “, tells Le Parisien.
But first it calms down: the PTA does not feel here a history-geese lesson or a political prechi-bucle, blur the reference points “to invent a poetic vision of the history of the United States, a circuit of the temporary court that mixes references yesterday and today, today, today, The battle of Algiers And black lives matter, the prophet soul Gil Scott-Heron and rapper Junglepussy. “
“Great show”
For first, the film is a “great show on Saturday night” with “insane energy”, receiving jokes, suspense, emotion, toy races in hand and foot on the floor. “Or, more simply,” a splendid and deep entertainment, alarming and funny “for télérama.
Also served by actors at the top of their art. “The PTA offers gold roles to the actors who give their best,” summarizes the Parisian. Whether it is the support roles, transported by Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor or the young Infiniti Chase, of which this is the first appearance in the cinema, or the partitions of the stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, all offer staggered performances.
“DiCaprio is at the top of his art. Teyana Taylor is remarkable. Chase Infiniti is a revelation. She steals the show,” Variety summarizes.
For the Parisian, Leonardo DiCaprio “masterfully acquired a Bob with a robe from beginning to end, overwhelmed by the events but of the infallible determination of finding his daughter, reediting the feat of making an extraordinary or even unattractive antihero to the beginning.” The star of Titanic It is none other than a “virtuous interpreter of the depths of the human soul,” according to Franceinfo.
Beside them, Sean Penn, “almost physically unrecognizable in perverse and ice cream”, delivers “one of these phenomenal partitions that made their reputation.” Therefore, the two stars seem in the pole position in the Oscar’s career. And for the world, the PTA is the “endowed Hollywood” and enough. No one will contradict it.
Source: BFM TV
