They say that music softens morals. Maybe that’s why Joker: madness for twoTodd Phillips’s film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, seemed wiser to us, with its musical cues and lullabies, than the furious previous part, Joker (2019), by the same filmmaker, the blockbuster earned Joaquin Phoenix the Oscar for best actor. Because the supervillain of Ordinance he’s in love! Joker, aka Arthur Fleck, meets his Harley Quinn (Lady Gaga, in a gothic style) in the prison corridors. Both are as broken as each other and have only one desire: to be together.
In the race for the Golden Lion, the film premiered on Wednesday, September 4 at the Mostra, including the 81stmy The edition will end on Saturday, September 7. Joker He had already won the honours of the Venice competition in 2019. It took place in a dark and violent New York and ended in blood: Joker ended up killing (among others) his idol, a television celebrity (Robert de Niro) who had humiliated him. live. Folie a dos It marks the time of love and trial. The lawyer wants to defend the mental dissociation of the Joker, alias Arthur Fleck, linked to a traumatic childhood with an abusive mother.
The jury will have to answer one question: was he the accused at the time of the act or was he possessed by the Joker? Joaquin Phoenix gives a memorable performance, in which the grimacing hero softens in contact with his loved one. Annoying, not to say tortuous, the question of the hero’s identity gives rise to numerous twists, legal, intimate, interspersed with songs… Harley Quinn herself hides some secrets.
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test filmFolie a dos It has the air of a musical, although the American director Todd Phillips revealed with Very bad trip (2009), questioned the term in an interview with Variety – perhaps for fear of scaring his audience. Still, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in a lively show, which culminates with a tap dance number by the actor, with the pop star accompanying him on the piano.
The Joker and Harley Quinn seem like two madmen who calm down as soon as they come into contact. The young blonde is capable of setting fire during a movie session with her fellow inmates, to distract and drag her lover away. The Joker will hum a touching Don’t leave me/If you go. The alchemy works, but otherwise there are few inventions to be found in this rather cheesy and long-winded show.
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