Expected in our theaters on May 22, “Furiosa”, a prequel to “Mad Max Fury Road”, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. And the feedback may make your mouth water a little more.
Top Gun Maverick in 2022. Indiana Jones and the Clock of Destiny in 2023. And Furiosa today. It has now become a Cannes habit: the great sagas of the 80s take a detour via the Croisette before returning to ignite the theaters.
Nine years after triumphing there with Mad Max Fury Road, George Miller returned to the South of France with his prequel, in which Anya Taylor-Joy succeeds Charlize Theron, and faces Chris Hemsworth. Presented out of competition this Wednesday, May 15, the feature film seems to have been more than popular according to the first reviews published online.
(“Furiosa is an absolute triumph. Not only one of the best prequels ever made (it complicates and deepens Fury Road at every turn), but also an immensely satisfying revenge epic in its own right. The movies: sometimes it’s great !”)
Aurélien Allin – CinemaTeaser : “As the story progresses, Furiosa, perhaps even more than the previous installments of Mad Max, emerges as a monstrous, distorting and grotesque vision of the world as it already exists – masculine, aberrant, oppressive, disrespectful of life. And as the desperate exploration of the impossible mourning of everything that the Apocalypse (or death, or oblivion) takes from us.”
(“Furiosa crushes the metal pedal. Tense, compelling and wild, filmmaker George Miller has created a masterful proto-punk rock, neo-Western opus. Large-scale action at its finest. Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth are perfect. An absolute hit.”)
A rich, sprawling epic that only expands and deepens the Mad Max mythology
John Nugent – Empire : “The chassis may look familiar, but a different engine than Fury Road powers Furiosa: it’s a rich, sprawling epic that only expands and deepens Max’s mythology. May it live forever!”
(“Holy shit! I absolutely loved Furiosa! George Miller just keeps getting better with crazy action, high-octane adrenaline and constant on-screen craziness This is the kind of film for which giant screens and powerful sound systems are created!”)
The impression of seeing a myth and a heroine come to life like never before. Mad
(“Furiosa somehow achieves what was thought impossible: it is an absolutely triumphant prequel to the revered Fury Road. Gritty, gruesome, eccentric, it maximizes the imaginative extravagance of the the happiest Anya Taylor-Joy is like we’ve never seen her before.”)
(“George Miller forges a daring post-apocalyptic epic with Furiosa. An artist’s mythic apotheosis. A singular and relentless odyssey of violence and revenge of EPIC proportions told with all the grandeur of a chatty grandfather unraveling a fable of humanity beyond words!”)
For those who have been made even more impatient by these heated reviews, Furiosa will be released in French theaters on Wednesday, May 22, with previews the evening before.
