Réalisation:
Robert ZemeckisPhotographie:
Dean CundeyMusique:
Alan SilvestriActeurs·trices:
Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy, Adam Storke, Nancy Fish, Michelle Johnson, John Ingle, Debra Jo Rupp (plus)VOD (4)
Résumés(1)
Depuis des années, Madeline, une actrice médiocre, vole les amants de son amie Helen, écrivain. Un soir, cette dernière se rend au spectacle de son amie, accompagnée de son fiancé Ernest, séduisant chirurgien esthétique. Une fois de plus, l'actrice joue de ses charmes et finit par épouser Ernest. Helen sombre dans la dépression et devient obèse, vouant une haine secrète envers son ancienne amie. Quatorze années plus tard, Madeline essaie désespérément de lutter contre l'inévitable vieillissement de son corps. Elle a totalement anéanti Ernest, devenu alcoolique et qui en est réduit à voir sa femme parader avec ses jeunes amants. C'est alors que Helen entre en scène, plus sublime que jamais et venue pour reprendre son dû. (ESC Distribution)
(plus)Critiques (7)
Hee-hee. I think I don’t want to be forever young. Definitely not anymore. A really wonderful comedy with the great Bruce Willis and the decomposing divas, Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn. The screenplay was excellently penned and Zemeckis has a feel for making a funnily mysterious atmosphere. A great and mainly edifying watch.
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Mediocre by Zemeckis’s standards, but the story itself hides a lot of truths. The desire for eternal youth...I can't count how many such eternal young women I see on the street.
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A decent comedy with a great cast. A great idea, a great leading trio, Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn, good black humour and nice women. The highlight for me is the scene where Streep falls down the stairs. 80%.
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Even a master filmmaker sometimes makes a mistake, and Robert Zemeckis experienced it for the first time in his career right here. I do like dark humor, as well as sarcasm and exaggeration, but in this case, those ingredients were not given at the right dosage.
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Zemeckis intellectually on top of his game. With his creative signature, he perfectly hit the retreat of classic Hollywood and the advent of the modern and predatory 90s, the dream and money factory. It succeeded both cinematically (revolutionary visual effects, pace of storytelling) and plot-wise (lots of biting satirical allusions and undertones). In places, however, this tale is extremely exaggerated and loud, or a bit out of touch with reality. So even though there are quite a lot of life tenets, it's often difficult to properly enjoy them under all the make-up and gratuitous shouting.
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Death Becomes Her is a film with a perfect stellar cast, an imaginative premise, and a fairly funny script, but I personally felt there was something missing, some kind of charge that would have given the film some juice. The special effects are well handled for the time and the makeup of Hawn and Streep is impressive, no question about it. In short, a film that makes its mark mostly with its top-notch cast, but it just didn't scare me, make me wonder, or make me laugh as much as I would have liked, which is a bit of a problem with a horror comedy fantasy.
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Zemeckis' excellent satire of Hollywood as a space for constant returns to the limelight that are all the more frightening and unnatural. At the same time, it's actually a bit of a (God knows whether intentional) satire of himself, where the amount of information he packs into the one overlong, extremely realization-intensive shot here is almost laughable. Not to mention that a good half of the film takes place in mirrors. The over-the-top nature of almost all the performances gives the impression that the entire crew must have burst out laughing just after editing (the seduction of Goldie Hawn); Bruce Willis, cast totally against type, is inherently funny; the over-exploited prima donna Meryl Streep makes a scene just by being in it, and Isabella Rosselini is simply delectable. And Fabio makes a cameo! Anyway, it's got a really good and cohesive script with lots of ideas and the longest night in a movie ever (starting from the arrival at the book launch and ending with Ernest getting hit with a vase). "What will the neighbors say?!" "Ernest, in the 12 years we've lived in Los Angeles, have you ever seen a neighbor?"
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