Réalisation:
Elia KazanScénario:
Moss HartPhotographie:
Arthur C. MillerMusique:
Alfred NewmanActeurs·trices:
Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm, Anne Revere, June Havoc, Albert Dekker, Jane Wyatt, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe (plus)VOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Phil Green, journaliste américain, est veuf et vit avec son fils chez sa mère. Chargé d'un reportage sur l'antisémitisme, il décidé de se faire passer pour juif et découvre la ségrégation larvée dont ceux-ci sont les victimes : insultes et vexations, discrimination professionnelle, et gentleman's agreement, qui leur rend l'achat d'une propriété beaucoup plus difficile. En même temps, il s'éprend de Kathy, jeune femme issue d'une famille aisée... (Flash Pictures)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Watching Gentleman's Agreement almost made me nauseous. Not even because of how the film is shot, or how it's acted, because there's not much to criticize about that because it's good. But rather because one realizes that it's a film that accentuates antisemitism soon after the war. But 70 years have passed, and nothing has changed in the world. The hate is still there and it’s even worse. Basically a timeless film.
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Elia Kazan once again as the director of a social drama. That's why there is abundant, frequent, and rapid dialogue, magnanimous forgiveness, and consequences evaded at the right moment. Less is sometimes more, and one intense scene would have been enough for this film and would have said more than the fifth or sixth monologue about what could be getting done but isn't. Gregory Peck himself later admitted that had he been a more mature actor, he would have put much more into the role of Mr. Green; as it is, unfortunately, he makes Gentleman's Agreement look too much like a tableau.
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