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When billionaire Slater King meets Frida, it’s love at first sight. Invited to his private island, he discovers decadent evenings where the champagne flows freely. But strange things begin to happen and Frida will have to uncover the truth if she wants to get out of this party alive.
3 Good Reasons to Discover Blinking Twice
If you never miss a movie with Channing Tatum, it will not be convincing. Or if the poster intrigues you. Otherwise, here are some additional arguments.
1 – Zoë Kravitz, director
We found it on camera. Jodie Foster, also an actress and director, in the thriller A vive, whose French title matches many of the characters played by Zoë Kravitz. X-Men the Beginning, Mad Max Fury Road, The Batman, in smaller films like Steven Soderbergh’s KIMI or Dope, or the series Big Little Lies and High Fidelity.
The daughter of Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet (Heart of an Angel), she regularly plays characters with strong personalities, often tough ones. We find that persona in Blink Twice, his first work as a visually and aurally carefully crafted thriller where his heavenly side is pitted against the dark things that are going on out there and that we discover as you go along. And which echoes some of his roles as an actor.
Channing Tatum and Zoe Kravitz
“The starting point of the project is a lifetime of emotions gathered in one place”– he told us with a laugh. “But it all started when I was working on another film: I was away from home, I had some time and I started thinking about my experience, talking to my friends and my family, especially women, about what we have. I felt and felt like there was a lack of conversation around certain topics.
“But I didn’t write with the intention of being a director. More to work on certain things and get out of my body. I think the writing process is very interesting because our subconscious is incredible. For some, sometimes I didn’t understand what I was trying to say until I sat down, looked at it and re-read it. I read what I wrote.”
It’s a feeling that turned into a story that turned into a movie
“It’s a feeling that turned into a story that turned into a movie. And only after a year and a half – out of the five that it took to write – I decided that I wanted to direct a movie. I first needed time to really see it, and when you write every day, you don’t start visualizing .
“But it wasn’t a chip I could download and give to someone else. I didn’t see how I could force anyone to do what I saw. I always wanted to cross the threshold. No, and this was the perfect time to do it.” With a thriller whose writing felt like a catharsis, able to explain its violence in substance and form.
2 – In the footsteps of Jordan Peele?
Blink Twice is one of those movies that is difficult to talk about, at the risk of saying too much. Because it’s better to know as little as possible so that the revelations to the heroine (played by Naomi Aki) work best. But the goal is to make you discover it, and let’s say that this film reminds us of the cinema of Jordan Peele, about political discourse, sexual and sexist violence, by wrapping it in a genre (here a thriller). .
Fully aware impact: “I have such an impression come out Everything has changed! It only happens a few times in our lives when something happens culturally and everyone feels it to the point where it changes the way we think about things. In terms of the cinema and the topic that is being discussed.”
“I felt very excited and liberated that we could talk about difficult issues in an accessible way. What’s special about what Jordan Peele did is that he invited people to see it differently. Get Out wasn’t a lecture or a speech, and it wasn’t Attack any group of people, he offered a new way of looking at things, and I find that revolutionary.
If he sometimes struggles to emphasize his point or the atmosphere he wants to establish, like many new directors, Zoë Kravitz follows in the footsteps of Jordan Peele with this thriller, some parts of which you will not soon forget. By examining sexual and gender-based violence, which has played a major role in the news since the rise of the MeToo movement.
Which affected the script, but not in the way we imagine: “We had to rewrite it once the Weinstein case broke.”It specifies. “I started writing the script in the summer of 2017 and the facts came out in October, it was interesting because the conversations and the world changed.
We had to rewrite it once the Weinstein case broke because the conversations and the world changed
“So we had a little bit of adjustment in what we were saying, but especially with the characters: because they are who they are and how they would act, make decisions, and be influenced by information. It was a challenge, but also a very stimulating thing, to write something that felt so relevant that it was constantly changing and evolving.
Is it too relevant to be easily produced? “It took time, but also because the script was reworked. The story is special and therefore can excite those who understand it and frighten others. I was lucky to find a studio and producers who really understood the film and what we understood. They were trying to say , who were enthusiastic about putting together an original project that had something to say about entertainment.”
3 – Channing Tatum like you’ve never seen him before
For this first performance, loyal and political, Zoe Kravitz was well surrounded, with a cast in which we meet Naomi Aki (Whitney Houston with I Wanna Dance Somebody), Christian Slater, Haley Joel Osment, Kyle McLachlan, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Alia Shawkat and Geena Davis. Let’s not forget Channing Tatum, the filmmaker’s companion, who offered a role that was vague to say the least.
“I knew Slater King had to be someone the audience felt safe with. Someone Frida felt safe with. It goes back to what we’ve been saying before: Conversations and things have changed because the scale has increased. By MeToo. The movement so That I had to find a way to get these people on the plane because everybody thinks about these things differently these days.”
Channing Tatum is a lovable and interesting person, but he’s also an incredible actor who didn’t get the chance.
“So I asked myself if I could make him someone very likable who might make mistakes but is trying to change and grow. I thought Channing Tatum would be great in that part of the character. I’ve never seen him as a nice and interesting person, but Also an incredible actor who didn’t get the chance.
It’s now done thanks to Blink Twice. The first performance in the form of a thriller that arrives without a scream to present itself as one of the pleasant surprises of the summer of cinema in 2024.
Commentary collected by Maximilien Pierret in Paris on August 18, 2024
Source: Allocine
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