Réalisation:
John HillcoatScénario:
Joe PenhallPhotographie:
Javier AguirresarobeActeurs·trices:
Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Kenneth Williams, Molly Parker (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Il y a maintenant plus de dix ans que le monde a explosé. Personne ne sait ce qui s'est passé. Ceux qui ont survécu se souviennent d'un gigantesque éclair aveuglant, et puis plus rien. Plus d'énergie, plus de végétation, plus de nourriture... Les derniers survivants rôdent dans un monde dévasté et couvert de cendre qui n'est plus que l'ombre de ce qu'il fut. C'est dans ce décor d'apocalypse qu'un père et son fils errent en poussant devant eux un caddie rempli d'objets hétéroclites - le peu qu'ils ont pu sauver et qu'ils doivent protéger. Ils sont sur leurs gardes, le danger guette. L'humanité est retournée à la barbarie. Alors qu'ils suivent une ancienne autoroute menant vers l'océan, le père se souvient de sa femme et le jeune garçon découvre les restes de ce qui fut la civilisation. Durant leur périple, ils vont faire des rencontres dangereuses et fascinantes. Même si le père n'a ni but ni espoir, il s'efforce de rester debout pour celui qui est désormais son seul univers. (Metropolitan FilmExport)
(plus)Critiques (9)
Un film triste et beau. Une histoire racontée lentement et avec sensibilité sur le voyage de deux personnages sans défense à travers un monde dépourvu d'humanité. Un monde dans lequel on ne veut pas les laisser seuls et on voudrait les protéger. Mortensen magnifique, Duvall phénoménal, une scène incroyablement glaciale et un joli motif de piano omniprésent. Pour l'instant, mon deuxième ajout (après Shutter Island) au top 10 de l'année.
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Hillcoat certainly didn't do badly here and in fact, I can't imagine if McCarthy’s book could have been adapted more faithfully. However, like the Coen brothers, the film is brought down by the poor rewrite that simplified some passages for the film medium, and cut others, and yet added nothing of its own. I appreciate the austere work with images, which doesn't push the viewer into the popular post-apocalyptic depression, but rather strums on grimly sad strings, like the musician Nick Cave. Regardless, I’m glad Hillcoat had the balls to film it the way he did. On the other hand, the aftertaste of uselessness cannot be repelled, at least in my case. Seven thumbs up out of ten. I think I'll go to the movies. I’m afraid of Blood Meridian.
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A sensitive and adequate adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's short story, as much as it can be. The truth is that what in the original referred somewhat to the elusive heights of "divinity", "sympathy" and "humanity" logically clings to mud and dust in the film. In my opinion, it could not have been shot any better or in a more raw way. However, it could have been tighter.
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The most catastrophic commercial for Coca-Cola. McCarthy’s The Road stands on atmosphere, and so it was extremely important that no one scene should stick out, like in the book, so that a month later you have no memory of anything specific that happened, only of the atmosphere of cruel despair, ruin; a world where trusting your nearest and dearest is a synonym for criminal naivety. A memory of the atmosphere that gets under your skin, an atmosphere that will stay with you long after you leave the movie theatre. All it takes is somebody coughing on the bus, the sight of a discarded beer can and there you are again - up to your ears in depression. I don’t want to pretend that this is flawless. It isn’t. I could find quite a lot of things to criticize here, but everything fades in the shade of THAT atmosphere and the very end, where you find out straight away who has what perspective of the world (you know: is the glass half-full or half empty?). That dulls the edges of any of its negative aspects. Mainly that it’s fragmentary and everything else that the book suffers from. Yes, you heard me right, although I really like The Road, I don’t rate it among McCarthy’s top works. It isn’t even his most atmospheric works. P.S.: But this is one of those pointless adaptations. It’s an illustration, one to one scale, nothing more. I really had expected the director to cut deeper and defy the “canon" of the book, while still remaining faithful to it. Here, everything is down to the book, and nothing comes “out of Hillcoat". That’s why I give it four.
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For most of the runtime I had decided on a 100% rating, but the last few minutes belong to a completely different film. When it comes to the portrayal of a post-apocalyptic future, The Road leaves all the modern competition way behind. Only the old British film Threads can be compared in terms of the intensity of the despair and depression. The Road is a strong argument for those who claim that I Am Legend and Carriers are not particularly good films. 9/10
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