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High Anxiety
Réalisation:
Mel BrooksPhotographie:
Paul LohmannMusique:
John MorrisActeurs·trices:
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Jack Riley (plus)Résumés(1)
Suite à la mort de son directeur, la clinique psychiatrique "pour très très grands nerveux" de Los Angeles attend son successeur, le docteur Richard H. Thorndyke. Sommité des neurosciences formée à Harvard, ce dernier jouit d’une solide réputation malgré les attaques de panique que lui cause sa phobie du vide. À peine arrivé dans l’établissement, Thorndyke découvre que rien n’y tourne vraiment rond. Non seulement les patients ne bénéficient pas d’un suivi médical très orthodoxe, mais en plus, l’infirmière en chef Charlotte Diesel et le docteur Charles Montague semblent lui cacher de lourds secrets… (Arte)
(plus)Critiques (1)
I have had, have, and will have one fundamental problem with Mel Brooks, or rather with his films. Poor Mel had the misfortune of encountering clueless people, for whom hinting, directing, and pointing is not enough. Many of his jokes have decent potential, but he presents them so exaggeratedly that they lose all charm for me. He can't capture that delicate line between parody and awkwardness. But maybe the fault is in me, and I have set my boundary too high. In High Anxiety, where he takes aim at poor Hitchcock, he still holds back and thankfully doesn't push the envelope as much as he does in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, but even so, I can't give this film an overall impression of more than 40%.
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