Réalisation:
James MangoldPhotographie:
Phedon PapamichaelMusique:
T Bone BurnettActeurs·trices:
Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Dan John Miller, Larry Bagby, Shelby Lynne, Tyler Hilton (plus)VOD (5)
Résumés(1)
1957. L’Amérique ébahie découvre la première rockstar de l’Histoire. Son nom : Johnny Cash. Icône d’une génération, éternel rebelle, « l’homme en noir » a connu tous les excès : les concerts hystériques, les ravages de la drogue, la passion dévorante… Entre gloire et déchéance, « Walk the Line » vous plonge dans la vie hors du commun de ce musicien visionnaire devenu une véritable légende. (20th Century Fox FR)
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Critiques (12)
Une superbe interprétation du parcours de vie de Johnny Cash. Comme je n’écoute pas ses chansons, je ne voulais pas voir ce film du tout, mais je me suis poussé à le voir et je ne le regrette pas ! Joaquin Phoenix y est phénoménal, tout comme Reese Witherspoon. Ce dernier a d'ailleurs manqué de chance au vu de la rude concurrence qui l’attendait cette année-là aux Oscars. Bravo, bravo, bravo !
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Film biographique musical du type Ray, mais pas aussi hollywoodien et un peu plus sincère et concis. Ce n'est que bien. Plus le super duo Joaquin Phoenix + Reese Witherspoon. J'espère qu'ils commenceront à tourner des films sur des réalisateurs avec le même amour, qui me sont plus proches que les musiciens...
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Some movies will thoroughly change you, even with a proper distance. I mocked the country music while I was watching it and pretty much ignored Reese Witherspoon, but then everything was suddenly different after I saw it. Although I don't actively listen to Johnny Cash, I took to heart all the life warnings that Walk the Line subtly piles on one after another, and (however pathetic it may sound) I would like to believe that they helped me several times to take the right turn at the most important crossroads. This biographical spectacle is not among my top ten, nor even among my top fifty. And yet there is so much truth in it regarding temptations, difficult decisions, love, and career, that at one point I even put Joaquin Phoenix's portrait from the hand-drawn poster as my profile picture – and I have kept it there until today. A personal film in the most obvious sense of the word.
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I guess I've waited too long, because I've been sucked in a lot by various biographies or other films from the country and early rock and roll scene. I no longer see Walk the Line as above average anymore. I'm more bothered by the fact that the filmmakers only chose the romance with his second wife June from Johnny Cash's biography. It may have been enough for Oscar-winning performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, but it said almost nothing about the breadth of the phenomenon.
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I first met Johnny Cash on U2's “Zooropa” while listening to the last song he sang with his beautiful deep voice (which Joaquin Phoenix also possesses), and although his work is not my cup of tea, he certainly deserved "his" movie for the inspiration that many music personalities, not only country but also rock, credit him with. Thankfully, Walk the Line isn't a boringly descriptive story, despite spanning a several eras, the viewer doesn't really learn much about Cash's achievements and work (which may disappoint die-hard fans), but the story focuses intimately on the formation of his relationship with his future wife June Carter (a sweetly vital Reese Witherspoon) and his almost obsession with her, showing his addiction to pills and his lifelong struggle to cope with the death of his brother. Joaquin not only sings beautifully and I believed his every move with the guitar in his hand, and his tormented look with the inner demons in his eyes, which he was constantly fighting with, was Oscar-worthy. Likewise Witherspoon, with the body of a fragile little bum, but the character of a strong woman and Cash's redeeming angel. The only thing that separates this film from 5* is the absence of a really strong scene that would be indelibly etched in my memory, except perhaps for a punishingly brief moment depicting a concert in Folsom Prison that gave me goosebumps.
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