Joy

Les films de David O. Russell sont étranges et singuliers et, dans la plupart d’entre eux, on retrouve Jennifer Lawrence et Bradley Cooper. Pour moi, American Bluff l’emporte haut la main. Joy m’a nettement moins convaincu. Ce film est trop américain pour moi, je le ressentais à pratiquement tous les niveaux. Jennifer est clairement une bonne actrice et il est inutile de polémiquer là-dessus ; en revanche, je ne pense pas qu’elle doive être nominée ou récompensée à chaque prestation. Dans Joy, elle joue bien, mais sans être époustouflante pour autant, alors que dans American Bluff, elle était absolument brillante. En conclusion, Joy est un film moyen que j’aurai oublié dans une semaine. (15/02/2017)

Jennifer Lawrence est excellente dans une comédie aigre-douce peu marquante sur une petite ville, qui tente de réussir grâce à un balai inventé par elle-même. Ce qui la motive avant tout, c'est la conscience du spectateur que ce balai fait désormais partie de presque tous les foyers. Les relations familiales extravagantes, les tubes pop, l'atmosphère hivernale poétique agréable et l'utilisation peu (et étrange) de Bradley Cooper. Scénaristiquement, David O. Russell a choisi de ne pas l'affiner de manière surprenante. (24/12/2015)

A mop's thorny journey into American households. I confess that I found the synopsis so dull and uninteresting that I wasn't tempted to watch it. At first the film was "quite interesting but nothing special", sometimes quite bizarre with characters behaving strangely (a classic malady of Russell's films), but by the time Joy meets Bradley Cooper's character midway through I was firmly hooked to the final impression of "excellent". The actual scene of the mop being introduced by its creator in the TV commercial was five-star, as was Jennifer's immersion in the role, as she emotionally drove it in like a snowplow. And by the way, winter was a good move, the flying snowflakes gave the narrative an attractive atmosphere, along with the music, which Russell always knows how to use in a film. (27/12/2016)

During the movie I realized we had the same mop at home. After I finished watching it, we went to visit our friends where I found out they have exactly the same mop. I have never really noticed that before. So I thank this movie that it told me a story of a thing where I would otherwise hardly realize how it came into being, and yet its author had so much trouble with it that many other people would not recover from that shit. However, Joy managed and that is why this movie, which was really sleep-inducing in the beginning, was created. When Joy was so deep in the shit that she started to sell herself in teleshopping (best scene of the whole movie, by the way), the whole movie got quite interesting. It’s a pity Jennifer Lawrence acted in the way she did, even though I normally quite like her. And I don’t even know why. Her acting is really emotionless and pretty arrogant. And it does not even have to be true. Throughout the whole movie I somehow tolerated her as Joy, but she completely knocked me down with the finale. It’s a pity. Biopics really need the compassion of the audience. And after the narration of the story, I missed that a bit. (03/01/2016)

This is what business is like. Not a time-hopping, broadly speaking, but serving up the initial hell of the business world live with the fabulous Jennifer Lawrence. Scene by scene, shot by shot, all the emotions are spot on and it has incredible energy. For those starting out on a similarly harrowing journey with their idea, it's doubly so. What is incomprehensible then is the initial bitterly Woody Allen-llike build-up, full of odd individuals and strange directorial devices – you have to wait about 30 minutes. But it gets better and clearer towards the end, as does the main character's life journey. Jennifer steals some scenes downright for herself – she should have got the Oscar rather than Brie Larson, but she was in a less commercial flick. (16/05/2016)