CRITIQUE – Although Lady Gaga joins Joaquin Phoenix, this time in prison, the new episode by Todd Phillips is a pale copy of the first.
In 2019, Todd Phillips considers himself a serious author by filming a clown. Until now harmless Hollywood entertainer, director of Very Bad Trip 1, 2, et 3Phillips tries a poker game with Joker . And it works. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival before grossing more than $1 billion in international box office revenue.
Joaquin Phoenix loses 23 kg and wins an Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, an outsider who lives alone with his mother in a very sad apartment, a failed stand-up comedian in a Gotham which strongly resembles the criminogenic New York of the 1970s and 1980s . Joker is a clever pastiche of Scorsese and Lumet films from that period (Taxi Driver, The Waltz of the Puppets, A dog’s afternoon, Network). The presence of Robert De Niro, in the role of Murray Franklin, television host adored and then targeted by Fleck, makes the homage even more obvious.
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