It was impossible for the Oscar for best actor to escape him that year. In 2006, Philip Seymour Hoffman won the coveted statuette for his role as Truman Capote in Bennett Miller’s film of the same name. In this biographical film, which is broadcast this Wednesday, December 4 on Arte, the actor plays the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s at a pivotal moment in his career, when in 1959, he went to Kansas to draw inspiration from a macabre news story from which he drew one of his most cult works: The sang-froid. Capable of infinitely transforming himself for his roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman evolved to play Truman Capote, as well as many other characters until his death in 2014. Here are five films to (re)watch.
Magnolia (1999)
Favorite actor of Paul Thomas Anderson since Double mise et Boogie NightsPhilip Seymour Hoffman lands a role in Magnoliawhere he plays the nurse of a press mogul who is about to die. a moving film which mixes the destinies of nine characters who, at first glance, have not much in common. A film about human beings, connections, the past, pain and coincidences, also starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and Pat Healy.
The 25th Hour (2002)
If Edward Norton is the star of this film by Spike Lee, inspired by a novel by David Benioff, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the friend of a man arrested with heroin who will be sent to prison. But before that, he decides to spend one last day to see his loved ones, like his father, played by Brian Cox, his friends, but also his girlfriend played by Rosario Dawson.
Good Morning England (2009)
Come aboard the ship of Radio Rock, the pirate radio station which sailed the seas in 1966 to broadcast this musical genre to which the BBC then gave little importance, while the government wanted to silence this dissonant voice. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as The Count alongside Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Tom Sturridge, Nick Frost and Talulah Riley. A film to (re)discover on the Max, myCANAL and Prime Video platforms.
The Master (2012)
Philip Seymour Hoffman plays in this film by Paul Thomas Anderson Freddie, Lancaster Dodd – “the Master”, charismatic leader of a movement called the Cause, of which Freddie, a veteran played by Joaquin Phoenix quickly falls under the thumb…
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
More than ten years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the city of Hamburg is struggling to recover from having sheltered a large terrorist cell behind the attacks on the World Trade Center. When an immigrant of Russian-Chechen origin, having suffered terrible abuse, arrives in the Muslim community of Hamburg to recover his father’s ill-gotten fortune, the German and American secret services are on alert.
