Venice Show: Kathryn Bigelow Dynamites competition with a big thriller

Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear return

Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie, A house of dynamiteIt was one of the most awaited films in the 82a competition of Venice. Presented this Tuesday 2 September, his new film, a hybrid between the war film and the procedural thriller, has not disappointed and tells the biggest of possible crises: a nuclear attack on American soil.

Kathryn Bigelow confirms with A house of dynamite What we already knew. Among the active filmmakers, he raised the internal investigations of a crisis – often belliginally – to the degree of art. We think above all Dementers AND Zero Dark ThirtyOther works finely mixing the narrative and reality in which the participation of individuals in the resolution of a global crisis was already masterfully narrated and staged. Here, if on the one hand Netflix – film distributor – seems to have standardized the photography and visual ambition of the film, on the other the richness of the means granted guarantees an authenticity of the representations and an ultra -acute show.

Three stories for a global vision

A house of dynamite It is cut into three segments. Everyone says, from the point of view of various protagonists, all military or officers of the United States government – whose president, embodied by Idris Elba, the same situation. Without notice, an intercontinental missile is launched in the United States, without the sender being identified. The pole is triple. It is necessary to identify those who launched this nuclear attack, to intercept the missile, to determine which response to bring. All this, coordinating the different services in a very reduced time, since the missile will touch its goal in twenty minutes …

The triple point of view has no different interest from that of completeness in its description of defense mechanics. Therefore, the intention is not so much to question the truth of a story, such as in Rashomon OR Anatomy of a fallnor to bring new iterative elements of resolution such as in Point of viewBut to go as much as possible in the technical details of a terribly complex situation. These details are staged with an expert suspense practice. Let’s go without blowing from a launch base for interceptors to a crisis room in Washington. We stop on the various communication systems that prove to be bankrupt and follow the president as close as possible when it must be repaired.

High level thriller and political criticism

Thanks to the choice of a drama in the end Drive of the characterThe human element takes over on this Tecno-Thrilier Tom Clancy e The sum of all fears : The characters, all the owners of the same information, all by applying the planned protocols, each ends up close up close with the unthinkable, paralyzed at the end of the world that takes shape before their eyes. While everything was prepared, planned, organized to avoid this type of attack, the materialization of what was only a distant hypothesis makes this preparation instantly obsolete instantly. And then he refers to each character to his humanity and the concern of his relatives. The entire casting, including Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, Jared Harris, Gabriel Basso and Greta Lee, guarantees his performances in an ideal choral set.

It is in this perspective of exhaustion of the technique that the powerful critical dimension of A house of dynamite Take shape. While it will welcome the seriousness and the level of preparation of American power concerning the nuclear threat, Kathryn Bigelow and his screenwriter Noah Opppenheim underline pure madness to maintain this system rather than working to end nuclear proliferation. Basically what formulates, a few minutes to make the most serious decision in the history of humanity, the American president: “We built a house whose walls are made of dynamite and continue to live there.. “

A house of dynamiteFrom Kathryn Bigelow. Available on Netflix 24 October 2025.

Source: Cine Serie

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