Before being screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 25, and before its release on June 22, the biographical film “Elvis” was able to make the audience dance at the Grand Theater Lumière. In this case, a brief overview of what the French press thought … *
In 1992, Baz Luhrmann presented his first feature film, Ballroom Dance, in the category Un Certain Regard. Since then, the Australian director has twice opened the Cannes Film Festival with Moulin Rouge! And the Great Gatsby. He returned from the competition this year with his long-awaited biography, Elvis. Not surprisingly, this is the first time a movie has captured the fate of a rock and roll icon. In 1979, John Carpenter had already dedicated to him the television film Le Roman d’Elvis, in which Kurt Russell played the King. Did Austin Butler, who succeeds his successor, manage to convince him in the eyes of the press?
Რ About?
Elvis Presley’s life and musical career through the prism of a difficult relationship with his secret manager, Col. Tom Parker. The film explores their relationship over two decades, from the singer’s ascents to unparalleled stars, against the backdrop of a cultural uprising and the discovery of the end of innocence by America.
Elvis Buzz Luhrmann with Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonj …
In cinemas on June 22, 2022.
What does the press think?
according to Პirveli :
“Neither is another biographical film, no: a biographical biography.” (Frederick Fuber) 5/5
according to Franceinfo Culture :
“Elvis Presley and Buzz Luhrmann find themselves in the same excess. In the extravagance of the first character and his panoplasm, in the second spectacular and baroque staging where the music is central. The director may at the same time sign it. The best film.” (Jackie Bornett) 5/5
according to Point :
“A visual storm, a series of attractions such as a market where spectacular musical numbers, archival images, excerpts from Presley films, comics, intimate life scenes or ‘split screen’ effects. (Jean-Luc Vakhtausen) 4/5
according to Paris match :
“In this obviously operatic, brilliant, confused film, full of incredible cinematic moments and unknown details, but ultimately in a very dark tone, the filmmaker of ‘Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Gatsby’ does not even tell the country for three decades. In the face of a prudent and racist America, the evolution of its morality. (Fabrice Leclerc) 4/5
according to The Inrockuptibles :
“Elvis is becoming a musical biographical film, a little further away, because he is much more interested in the image, the advertising business and the company around him than the artist himself.” (Theo Ribbeton) 4/5
according to CinemaTeaser :
“With the love of the kaleidoscope, Buzz Luhrmann plunges into the baroque and circus world of Elvis Presley. At first annoying, then wonderful.” (Aurelien Alin) 4/5
according to Telerama :
“And yet, saturated with information, images and sounds, no matter how tiring, Elvis proves to be the most visible, most enjoyable of Lurman’s films.” (Samuel Duhair) 3/5
according to ყThe world :
“Elvis’s life was short-lived. Nevertheless, it contained a thousand to which Buzz Lurman seems to have added a thousand others by virtue of the image. (Veronica Kauhape) 3/5
according to Movie files :
“By playing Presley / Parker, the art / business duality, Luhrmann obscures all his other actors and, therefore, suggests that evolution and rebellion in a star’s life are exclusively related to his relationship with his manager, which reduces the role of his parents. Or his wife or the influence of major social and political movements that are his contemporaries. ” (Michael Genham) 3/5
according to Release :
“We came out of this Rococo tsunami with the impression that we did not keep anything, we did not see anything, we did not feel anything.” (Lelo Jimmy Batista) 2/5
* According to a press panel presented on AlloCiné on May 27, 2022.
Source: allocine
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