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70E Locarno Festival Echos de festival 70e Locarno Festival 2 au 12 août 2017 (David Lynch et Harry Dean Stanton dans le film en compétition internationale, Lucky, de John Carroll Lynch) 70 ans, cela se fête ! Site de l'Organe cantonal (VD et Le Léopard d’Or 2017 a été attri- GE) de contrôle des films : Créé en 1946, le Festival del bué au Chinois Wang Bing pour http://www.filmages.ch/ Film de Locarno est l’un des plus son documentaire sur les der- anciens festivals de cinéma au niers jours d’une femme atteinte Commission nationale du film et e de la protection de la jeunesse : monde. Pour sa 70 édition, il de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Le http://filmrating.ch/fr/verfahrenki s'est rebaptisé Locarno Festival. verrez-vous en salle ? Plus sû- no/suche.html?search=/ En plus de ses sept salles (dont rement sur Arte ! Les distribu- deux refaites à neuf cette an- teurs suisses ne se précipitent Sommaire : née : le PalaCinema et le Gran- généralement pas sur les films Page 1 Rex), il offre toujours le plus lauréats de Locarno, il vous reste « 70 ans, cela se fête ! » et barème fascinant Open Air au monde, la à croiser les doigts et à espérer. « Etoiles et Toiles » Piazza Grande, qui peut accueil- lir jusqu’à 8'000 personnes. L’équipe d’e-media a feu vert Page 2 Rétrospective Jacques Tourneur Cannes distribue ses Palmes, pour se faire plaisir à Locarno et Tout ça ne vaut pas l’amour ou Berlin ses Ours, Venise ses ne doit pas impérativement Un vieux garçon (1931) Lions, Locarno décerne ses Léo- « couvrir » une section plutôt pards. Et puisque Locarno joue qu’une autre. C’est la raison pour Page 3 dans la cour des grands, il invite laquelle vous en apprendrez plus Toto ou Son Altesse voyage aussi force pointures du cinéma sur la rétrospective Jacques (1933) international qui ne manquent Tourneur (27 films sur les 33 Pour être aimé (1933) jamais d’être émus lorsqu’ils se longs métrages projetés) que Les Filles de la Concierge (1934) retrouvent face à un parterre vous n’en saurez sur les films aussi impressionnant que celui présentés dans les diverses sec- Page 4 They All Come Out (1939) de la Piazza Grande. Vous sau- tions du festival (seulement 17 Nick Carter, Master Detective rez tout sur les éminents visi- de ces derniers). Ne m’en veuil- (1939) teurs et le palmarès en allant sur lez pas de vous infliger une fois Phantom Raiders (Nick Carter) le site du festival : encore mes étoiles ! (1940) https://pardo.ch/pardo/festival- Doctors Don’t Tell (1941) del-film-locarno/home.html _______________________________________________________ Page 5 Cat People (1942) Etoiles et toiles quel que soit son âge. The Leopard Man (1943) Days of Glory (1943) * Thématique un peu floue, montage, langage et mise en ** Problématique toujours scène peu propices à capter ET d’actualité, mise en scène hono- retenir l’attention du spectateur, rable, narration et dialogues, pou- vant s’adressant à tout public tant comme « script-clerk », « stock- Sommaire (suite) : soit peu mature. actor », placeur, etc.) sur les ta- Page 6 lons de son réalisateur de père. Experiment Perilous (1944) Canyon Passage (1946) *** Très bonne adéquation On peut dire que Jacques Tour- entre le fond (thématiques ac- neur est tombé dans la marmite Out of the Past / Build my Gallows e High (1947) tuelles, universelles) et la forme des Arts, et du 7 en particulier (mise en scène fluide, dialogues quand il était petit ! Page 7 et langage visuel limpides, mon- Berlin Express, (1948) tage efficace, personnages étof- La famille Tourneur revient en Easy Living (1949) fés). France en 1926, Jacques travaille Circle of Danger (1951) comme assistant de son père et Anne of the Indies (1951) **** Mêmes qualités que d’autres réalisateurs, et signe la Page 8 celles énumérées pour ***, mais réalisation de quatre longs mé- Way of the Gaucho (1952) de surcroît : film exploitable dans trages avant de regagner les Appointment in Honduras (1953) une ou plusieurs disciplines du Etats-Unis et tenter sa chance à Wichita (1955) Plan d'études romand (PER) Hollywood (il a aussi la nationalité Stranger on Horseback (1955) américaine). En 1934, il a trente ans. Il bourlingue dans le cinéma, Page 9 RETROSPECTIVE JACQUES travaillant sur des courts métrages Nightfall / Poursuites dans la Nuit TOURNEUR (1904-1977) ou en seconde équipe, jusqu’au (1957) jour où la RKO lui ouvre ses The Fearmakers (1958) La Rétrospective du 70e Locarno portes. Timbuktu (1958) Festival, consacrée au réalisateur La battaglia de Maratona (1959) franco-américain Jacques Tour- Il s’impose peu à peu comme le Page 10 neur (1904-1977) a attiré des maître du fantastique, du film noir Frontier Rangers (1959) foules. Voilà un réalisateur qui a et autres genres à suspense. Il toujours su mêler dans son travail excelle à créer l’angoisse en LOCARNO 2017 : TOUTES SEC- l’imaginaire puissant des récits de jouant sur l’éclairage, les compo- TIONS CONFONDUES genre et une esthétique sitions « clair-obscur » les effets unique. Locarno présentait l’inté- sonores, les angles de prises de Cat People, Paul Schrader, Etats- gralité de l’œuvre de Tourneur : vue, les suggestions hors-champ. Unis 1982 soit 33 longs métrages. La Ciné- Il s'essaie cependant à tout, wes- mathèque suisse et les Cinémas Page 11 terns, films de cape et d'épée, Maps to the Stars, David Cronen- du Grütli montreront en septembre mélodrames, péplums, etc. Il berg, Etats-Unis 2014 un choix de films de Tourneur. travaille aussi à la télévision, no- Atomic Blonde, David Leitch, Etats- Une aubaine à ne pas manquer ! tamment pour des séries. Unis 2017, 1h55 Jacques Tourneur est né à Paris En 1966, il revient en France, en 1904. Son père, le réalisateur Page 12 lassé par le petit écran à moins What happened to Monday / Sev- Maurice Tourneur, est l’un des que l’Amérique ne se soit lassée en Sisters, Tommy Wirkola, Roy- pionniers du cinéma français, de lui. Sa carrière ne redémarre aume-Uni 2017, 2h03 après avoir été tour à tour gra- pas, il ne trouve pas de finance- Madame Hyde, Serge Bozon, phiste, illustrateur, assistant du France, Belgique 2917 ment pour ses derniers projets. Il sculpteur Auguste Rodin, puis du Demain et tous les autres jours, meurt en 1977 à Bergerac (Dor- peintre Puvis de Chavannes, Noémie Lvovsky, France 2017, 1h36 dogne). Le film La Mort en Direct acteur et metteur en scène de (1980) de Bertrand Tavernier lui théâtre, puis de cinéma. Page 13 est dédié. Lola Pater, Nadir Moknèche, France, Belgique 2017, 1h35 Maurice Tourneur participe à une The Big Sick, Michael Showalter, Les longs métrages réalisés en douzaine de films entre 1912 et France entre 1931 et 1934 sont Etats-Unis 2017, 2h 1914 (comme technicien ou figu- une forme d’apprentissage du Le vénérable W, Barbet Schroeder, rant), puis à l’appel d’Hollywood, il métier, mais ni Caron, ni Pagnol ni Suisse, France 2017, 1h40 part avec famille, armes et ba- Guitry ne les désavoueraient : gages aux Etats-Unis, où il réali- sera une cinquantaine de films. Il Tout ça ne vaut pas l’amour y est un cinéaste confirmé, dont alias Un vieux garçon (1931) les films sont très appréciés du COMEDIE *** public. Jacques découvre les Un brave pharmacien, Jules coulisses du métier (il travaille Renaudin, vieux garçon qui n'a 2 Disciplines et thèmes dans sa vie que la passion des drôles propres au théâtre bur- Contenu (suite et fin) : timbres, recueille une jeune fille lesque. Page 14 enceinte qui met au monde un Did you wonder who fired the gun, Travis Wilkerson, Etats-Unis enfant mort. Renaudin s'attache à Les Filles de la concierge (1934) 2017, 1h10 Claire dont il voudrait faire le bon- COMEDIE *** Charleston, Andreï Cretulescu, heur, et pour laquelle il se met en Madame Leclerc est concierge Roumanie, France 2017, 1h59 frais : costumes excentriques, dans un bel immeuble de Mont- Willkommen in der Schweiz, crèmes anti-rides, virées à la fête martre, et mère de trois filles ra- Sabine Gisiger, Suisse 2017 foraine, il ose tout... Mais la vissantes, Lucie, Ginette et Su- Die letzte Pointe, Rolf Lyssy, Suis- femme s'éprend de Jean Cordier zanne, pour lesquelles elle a déjà se 2017, 1h39, (Jean Gabin dans le rôle du jeune trouvé les maris idéaux, selon premier), marchand d'appareils de elle. L’aînée est mannequin, la Page 15 Lucky, John Carroll Lynch, Etats- T.S.F, dont le magasin jouxte à la seconde vendeuse et la plus Unis 2017, 1h28 pharmacie. Renaudin souffre et jeune travaille en usine. De beaux Goliath, Dominik Locher, Suisse n’a plus qu’à se consoler avec ses mariages feraient grimper toute la 2017, 1h25 timbres. Vaudevillesque et char- famille dans l’échelle sociale. Mais The Hitman’s Bodyguard, Patrick mant. rien ne va se dérouler comme Hughes, Etats-Unis 2017, 1h51 Madame l’a prévu : les trois jolies Toto ou Son Altesse voyage filles ont leurs propres ambitions. Page 16 (1933) – COMEDIE *** C’est gentil, moral, charmant, bien Tulip Fever, Justin Chadwick, Toto, un escroc (Albert Préjean boulevardier, comme les trois Etats-Unis, Royaume-Uni 2017, 1h47 qui pourrait être le jumeau de autres films tournés précédem- Jean Gabin) devient honnête par ment par Tourneur en France. Les amour. Pour se faire des sous, il quatre comédies de sa période vole leur chien à des gens riches, française ont l’immense qualité puis prétend avoir retrouvé d’en dire beaucoup en peu de l’animal pour toucher une récom- mots, avec des images et des pense de son propriétaire.
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