Netflix: “The third best movie of the century” will leave the platform

According to our colleagues at the BBC, it’s the third best film of the 2000s classification It was founded by the votes of 177 film critics. Moreover, Internet users of AlloCiné are not going in the opposite direction, as the film shows an audience rating of 4.1 out of 5 (and 4.6 out of 5 from the French press).

Filmed in 2007, There Will Be Blood is the fifth feature film by Paul Thomas Anderson, the muse of American independent cinema of the 90s. Loosely adapted from the novel Oil! Upton Sinclair’s feature film tells the story of Daniel Plainview, an oil farm owner driven by greed and hatred of others.

An American story of greed-driven success, There Will Be Blood is an extremely dark and cynical drama that contrasts with the dynamic and choral aspect of the director’s previous films. Monochrome and with little dialogue, the film also has the peculiarity of featuring a nasty and misanthropic hero.

While journalists may talk about the film’s extraordinary staging, Johnny Greenwood’s excellent soundtrack, or Robert Elswit’s brilliant photography, it seems that all reviews are polarized by the film’s lead actor’s extraordinary performance.

Talented actor or completely crazy?

The role of Daniel Plainview was given to Daniel Day-Lewis. Since coming out of semi-retirement five years before Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, the British actor – considered one of the most talented of his generation – has consistently adopted extreme acting methods – to inhabit the skin of his character. throughout the filming period.

For example, during the filming of Gangs of New York, the latter refused to take drugs for the treatment of pneumonia, on the pretext that they did not exist at the time in which the film takes place. His playing methods earned him the reputation of being among the best of all time, but also as a “histrionic” or even a “schizophrenic.”

There will be blood, Daniel Day-Lewis truly delivers the best performance of his career. His role earned him his second Oscar for Best Actor (he won his first in 1990 for My Left Leg) and cemented his dual image in the public eye as both a talented actor and a mad artist.

In any case, the actor completely inhabits his role (excerpt):

Since 2007, the actor has appeared in only three films. the musical Nine, Steven Spielberg’s Abraham Lincoln biopic (his third Oscar for Best Actor), and then Phantom Thread in 2017, which marked his second collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson.

Since then, Daniel Day-Lewis has once again announced his retirement from acting, a decision that this time seems final and irreversible… As a result, Paul Thomas Anderson has found a new muse in the equally talented person of Joaquin Phoenix. And the over-the-top cast, which the American director also shot twice.

There Will Be Blood will leave the Netflix catalog on December 14.

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