The movie Better Man is based on the many hours of interviews given by Robbie Williams to director Michael Gracey. The singer and composer told him that he had always felt like a “singe” engaged “to entertain the crowds. An impression which dates, of course, from the time when he was in the boy band Take that. The filmmaker took him at his word and imagined a film in his image: crazy, wild, unexpected, fundamentally entertaining and, at the same time, sincere and deeply touching.
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A visually stunning story
Michael Gracey is the man The Greatest Showman, another musical biography which retraced the journey and life of Phineas Barnum, famous American show producer and creator of the circus of the same name. With Better Manhe finds a modern juggernaut and proves that he knows what he is talking about by combining story, songs and dances in an organic way. And by proposing choreographies which do not have the simple aim of illustrating a significant moment, but rather of retracing a transition, a part of History in a visually stunning way. As when Gracey chooses to retrace the meteoric rise of the group Take That through the song Rock DJ and an explosive choreography involving 500 dancers on the famous Regent Street.
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This astonishing film highlights the peaks and flaws of an extraordinary destiny: Robbie Williams has in fact fourteen singles ranked No. 1 in Great Britain, after having enjoyed dazzling success in the company of the boy band. Take That. But this period was followed by a long descent into hell punctuated by incessant drug and alcohol abuse.
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The feature film is produced and narrated by Robbie Williams himself. In the feature film, he appears, from the start, in the guise of a primate to which the actor Jonno Davies lends his body movements and his voice. We would like the numerous musical biopics present on our screens (Elvis, Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, Charles Aznavour) to all cultivate the same sincerity and the same honesty concerning the excesses of showbiz, the fantasies of celebrity never realized and the insatiable race for honors of artists and singers.
★★★ Better Man Supercharged portrait Of Michael Gracey Scenario Oliver Cole, Simon Gleeson, Michael Gracey With Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Alison Steadman Duration 2h14.
