Time passes, our heroes grow old… But it is still possible to maintain the passion for knowledge that lies at the heart of this immortal saga. Our review from Cannes of ‘Indiana Jones: The Dial of Fate’.
Jean Cocteau maintained that the cinema has the capacity to “film death at work”. And, although the maxim of the French poet and filmmaker has something of a sinister prophecy, his reflection illuminates one of the most singular pleasures of the cinephile experience: the possibility of accompanying our idols on their way to old age. Those responsible for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate they seem to invoke Cocteau in his effort to turn the twilight into the narrative and conceptual engine of the moving final installment of the saga. The film begins at the happy close of the atrocious Nazi project, in the aftermath of World War II, and then moves to New York in the late 1960s, where we find Indy turned into an old curmudgeon, on the verge of retirement and divorce. Disenchantment seems to have taken over our hero… but everything changes when adventure knocks on the door.
It is probable that Cocteau did not come to imagine the mutations that the advent of digital cinema has caused, among which the erasure, at the stroke of a pixel, of the traces of the passage of time stands out. It should be said that this new aesthetic paradigm reinforces the immortality of myths, but it also generates distortions. In this sense, for those of us who are already veterans, the start of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate, which seems more like a video game than a classic adventure film, can be a bit uphill for us. But when the CGI relaxes, what becomes clear is that, when it comes to mythos, some things never change: Indy’s undying hatred of Nazis, his fear of snakes, or the saga’s ability to generate chemistry. memorable, like the one distilled by Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who embroiders the role of Indy’s sour and materialistic goddaughter.
At a key moment in the film, when a Nazi officer questions Basil (Toby Jones) about his motivations for taking a relic, Indy’s partner replies, “My friend and I are just trying to save history.” And that’s what the final installment of the saga is about, the recovery, by Indy, of faith in the value of History and culture. Time passes, our heroes get old, but as he shows Indiana Jones and the Dial of Fate, It is still possible to keep alive the anti-authoritarian flame and the passion for knowledge that lies at the heart of this immortal saga.
For those who continue to believe in the cultural value of popular cinema
Data sheet ‘Indiana Jones: The dial of fate’
Address: James Mangold Distribution: Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Thomas Kretschmann, Toby Jones, Olivier Richters, John Rhys-Davies Country: USA Year: 2023 Release date: 28–6-2023 Gender: Adventure Script: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, James Mangold Duration: 142 min.
Synopsis: The archaeologist Indiana Jones must embark on another adventure against time to try to recover a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, Jones soon finds himself facing off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi working for NASA.
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