Trance

Nous sommes la somme de tout ce que nous avons jamais dit, fait et ressenti. Nous sommes enveloppés dans une fibre unique de ces sensations que nous rappelons sans cesse. Pour être soi-même, l'homme doit se rappeler constamment. Un jeu sophistiqué avec le spectateur qui, bien qu'il n'ait pas tout à fait de sens (elle a pris sur elle PLEIN DE CHOSES), est imprévisible et étonnamment amusant, mystérieux et sexy de la première à la dernière minute. Boyle s'amuse avec un kaléidoscope de perceptions d'événements et une motivation confuse des personnages, et dans un rythme effréné, il révèle sa faiblesse pour les thrillers de Brian DePalma. (28/10/2014)

Vu dans le cadre du « Challenge Tour – La chasse aux films », défi numéro 7 : un film dont le titre est en un seul mot. Clairement un faux pas pour Danny Boyle. C’est comme si j’avais vu un jeu vidéo poussiéreux et pervers avec une musique efficace et dont les seuls atouts, au milieu de cette épreuve de cent minutes, étaient précisément la musique, quelques jolies images et le corps nu de Rosario Dawson. Les thèmes que sont le cerveau humain, les rêves, le subconscient et la psychologie m’intéressent indubitablement, mais si c’est pour les mettre en scène, il y a franchement d’autres façons de le faire que celle choisie par Danny Boyle. Quelle déception ! (04/06/2015)

An overcooked start. There is a voiceover, an unreliable narrator, an attractive plot, and expensive art. After twenty minutes, only a hint of the original idea remains, which surprisingly, even by Danny Boyle's standards, fails to reach a sufficiently high level with its piercing visual and thunderous musical accompaniment. I am all for surprising twists or the denial of clichés through lively passion. However, all of this must not happen at the expense of the viewer's engagement. (22/12/2015)

Danny Boyle is simply awesome. Trance is not his best movie, but it doesn’t change the fact that he is able to film literally anything. He had fun with the camera in a drug lair, in an Indian slum, near the Sun, with millions in his suitcase or he sweated for 127 hours in the mountains and this time for a change hypnosis plays a major role, and we see an entanglement of the whole story with the aim of preparing a shocking finale. And he succeeded. The movie may be a little too dynamic and a bit complicated, but that’s simply Boyle and that’s why I like him so much. The whole movie really has guts and every five minutes there is something happening that turns the story upside down. If you can accept that, you will be satisfied. (16/10/2013)

A film that has an embellished but far-fetched plot. It was interesting, the actors were good, we never got sick of them even though there were only a few of them that we kept switching between; still, it somehow just couldn't hold my attention the whole time. The jumping from hypnosis to the real world and back is supposed to be interesting, the viewer is supposed to wonder what’s real and what’s not, yet I didn't see it that way. Instead it gave me a rather tired impression, which I only woke up from towards the end when the shooting started. Even though I wrote that the final payoff was excessive, it still fails to impress with a proper wow effect if the viewer has seen a few similar films. You can see through the smoke effects. But if Boyle wanted the viewer to feel sympathy for a man who gets a bundle at the end, he succeeded. A mediocre film. (28/02/2017)