The amazing gentlemen Affleck Denis Lehane, American author whose other work Mystic River, was brought on the big screen by Clint Eastwood masterfully in 2003, saw another of his novels , Gone Baby Gone. Adapted for film by Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck with the title role, the film shows the chemistry that exists between the two brothers who gave birth to a masterpiece of film noir.
In a working class suburb of Boston, Amanda, a girl of four years, has disappeared. Police failing to find its track, the uncle and aunt of the child decide to use private detectives in the region, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The more they investigate, the more they discover the other side of the city in what is more sinister and terrifying: they are poking, digging, digging up sordid secrets while crossing the road to drug dealers, criminals and pedophiles. At the same time, facing the media pressure, Remy Bressant and his supervisor, the police captain Jack Doyle, for their part will lead the investigation in a case that looks more and more sordid.
Filmed in June 2006, Gone Gone Baby has long been delayed because of the "Maddie case" with which the film share many similarities. If the wait was long, it is clear that this directorial debut from Ben Affleck is a density of rare and extraordinary acuity. His film resonates with its lucidity on our contemporary world, his excesses, his sins and his ill-being permanent. From the first seconds, Gone Baby Gone guts to take us through beautiful music and the emotion that comes out does not leave us, even when the film is finished. Ben Affleck, actor capable of the best ( Hollywoodland for which he received the Best Actor award at the 63rd edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2006) and the worst ( Pearl Harbor ) shows, for his first time behind camera, an amazing talent by showing a staggering sensitivity without being overbearing. Moreover, he himself made the screenplay adaptation of the novel by Denis Lehane, showing a real talent as a singer (his previous scenario, Will Hunting, written with Matt Damon in 1998, was a resounding critical success and Commercial during its film adaptation by Gus Van Sant). Casey Affleck, younger brother of another, after stealing the show from Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , sang with great conviction by a private detective very clear, confusing and disturbing . This boy, I'm sure, is one of the major players in future years! The rest of the cast is amazing. Special mention for Ed Harris and Morgan Freeman are dying every second of screen charisma. All the ingredients are there to provide us with a delicious cocktail of nearly two hours which human beings do not grow out of this amazing drama. If
Gone Baby Gone evokes the plight of missing children, you must know that this subject remains highly taboo in our society. For information, the United States, 85 to 90% of cases of missing persons lists that the police are minors. In 2007, a report by the U.S. Department of Justice noted that 797,500 children under 18 were reported missing over a period of one year. Moreover, it is estimated the United States, one in eight boys and four girls will be sexually exploited or sexually abused before reaching age adult. Finally, 99% of missing children are found through research of the police. But there are approximately 10,000 children each year who are never found ...
Bruckheimer revisits the history of the United States The recipe is well known in Hollywood: Heroes do not rest, particularly if unleashed passions at the box office. Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of many Hollywood blockbusters over twenty years (The trilogies The Beverly Hills Cop and Pirates of the Caribbean, Bad Boys I and II, Pearl Habor , ...) into a true alchemist of cinema, can transform the worst scenarios in global cinema success. Thus, after the tune of about $ 200 million garnered worldwide in 2004 with the movie National Treasure and National Treasure, American producer, knowing that you should never kill a goose that lays golden eggs, we offer a second episode even more entertaining but inconceivable that its predecessor.
Treasure: Book of Secrets starts rather well - so to speak - with murder Abraham Lincoln in the nineteenth century. Her killer left behind a diary containing the real reasons for the crime he committed. Unfortunately, 18 pages are missing while some of these could exonerate a grandfather of Benjamin Gates in this conspiracy. Back to the twenty-first century where the adventurer, who became famous, in full possession of his great wealth acquired at the end of the first game. To wash the honor of his family and his ancestor, Benjamin Gates, aided by a fine team, distributed at random. In conducting the investigation, he soon realizes that the murder of former President conceals a different story: one best kept secrets of American history.
Say it now, these new adventures in National Treasure do not match those of the first episode. A new behind the camera, Jon Turteltaub provides a realization for a bland story with no surprises. Certainly, you never get bored for one second because the events are numerous and linked together very quickly. Unfortunately, the humor injected into the story weighs a ton, National Treasure is as funny as a clown Asmat. If the improbabilities abound everywhere, the worst, as in the first game, to meet the many hints Patriotic Americans: thus, Benjamin Gates is fighting for his family ... but also his country, the largest of all the nations of the world! This way of thinking, somewhat disturbing, would raise the ideology of some war films from Uncle Sam for entertainment ... dismaying childhood or scary?
Fortunately, the five-star cast (Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Harvey Keitel) comes to save the film entertaining but totally tasteless, without irony or malice. Immediately seen, soon forgotten! Roll on May 21 and the return of "archaeologist whisk largest in the history of cinema" in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull .
JD
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