Wild

Le récent film "The Way" d'Emilio Estevez m'a plus accroché. Il présentait des interactions plus intéressantes entre les personnages que le héros rencontrait lors de son voyage. "Wild" a quelques bonnes scènes, une atmosphère extérieure agréable et Reese est talentueuse. Cependant, les flashbacks qui décrivent les relations avec les personnages de son passé ne sont pas le moteur du film, comme ils devraient l'être. Dans ce domaine, la vie en flashback d'Aron Ralston dans "127 Hours" était beaucoup plus puissante et absorbante pour faire face à la situation que le personnage principal actuel. Néanmoins, "Wild" reste un bon film, trois étoiles et demie. (07/03/2015)

Un film qui m'a étrangement échappé jusqu'à ce que Netflix me le mette sous le nez. Il a un montage impressionnant qui donne un rythme adéquat, demande l'attention du spectateur et révèle progressivement le passé et la raison de la décision de Cheryl de s'engager dans un voyage aussi éprouvant. C’est excellent, et l'histoire m'a immédiatement emballé. Quand je regarde le nom du scénariste, tout s'explique ; c'est qu'il s'agit de mon écrivain préféré, dont les romans m'ont toujours captivé dès la première page. Le regretté réalisateur Jean-Marc Vallée aimait visiblement travailler avec Reese et Laura, et cette collaboration a porté ses fruits dans le cinéma et la télévision − du côté des séries. Très belle histoire qui m'a touché et m'a amené à réfléchir sur ma propre vie. Je ne dois pas non plus oublier la musique, qui illustre magistralement l'ensemble du récit. (21/01/2024)

Though Wild is very well rhythmised in twenty-minute segments, due to the logic of the plot new revelations cannot reverse the course of events, but only contribute to our understanding of the protagonist. Especially in the final third, we could criticise the film for the fact that it suffers from a low level of action and structural repetitiveness. However, if we don’t judge it by the standards of mannishly linear “action” films, the narrative cyclicity with the returning of motifs as fixed ideas (instead of development of those motifs) is conversely what makes Wild a unique film that is both outwardly and inwardly feminist. 80% (07/03/2015)

Beautiful scenery, a charismatic girl, Simon and Garfunkel, a meaningful story and emotions. If I were to recall something similar in type and genre, the last time I enjoyed a film like this was Penn's Into the Wild eleven years ago. The protagonist of that one had different motivations, but both have something in common: they are searching for themselves in a beautiful, purifying landscape. At the beginning I wasn't really hooked, the sudden cuts were a bit confusing, but as time went on I got incredibly engaged. I understood the main character, I envied her determination to do something with herself, and I'm so glad that Vallée didn't slip into cheap tropes, that some scenes that could have slid into a fatal ending were resolved in a different way and the clichés were avoided. And the way Vallée works with flashbacks is a masterpiece, too. And especially Reese – she put everything into the role, she even produced it herself; girl I admire you! Reese is just a God-given talent, like Vallée, I have yet to see a bad or even just mediocre film from him. (21/09/2018)

Reese Witherspoon delivered quite a respectable performance in this movie. Already in the beginning, she showed how easily a chipped nail can be torn from a toe which went through a two-hundred-kilometer hike on a trek across the Rocky Mountains with an elevation gain of least thirty kilometers. After a moment, however, a totally typical story began to unravel. It shows us Reese who is going through purgatory, at first without showing the reason, and we’ll only get to know the reason gradually, from the glimpses of her memories. It took me some time to attune to her, and about a halfway into the movie everything was clear to me. And from that moment I started to really enjoy the movie. Too bad that the ending was too open. I like open endings in movies like this but in this case it kind of faded away into nothing. The Way (2010) is much better in this respect. Anyhow, Reese’s performance was really great – I’d say even greater that the elevation gain she had to tackle during the movie. (26/02/2015)