Locked Down
Réalisation:
Doug LimanScénario:
Steven KnightPhotographie:
Remi AdefarasinMusique:
John PowellActeurs·trices:
Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Lucy Boynton, Stephen Merchant, Ben Kingsley, Mindy Kaling, Dulé Hill, Mark Gatiss, Jazmyn Simon (plus)Résumés(1)
Just as they decide to separate, Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) find that fate has other plans when a mandatory lockdown forces them to cohabitate – and brings them closer together in surprising ways. (HBO Max)
Critiques (3)
Another lockdown that you vainly wish would end as soon as possible. Liman is completely out of his element, spinning a disjointed script, a disjointed style, and completely out of focus. A few hints of humorous observation are subverted by a heist with no build-up and a romance with no spark.
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Two renowned filmmakers (though one of them already senile) meet on Zoom and decide that they will quickly put together a film about why they have to communicate online. Lockdown is a spectacle that seems to have been born in a rush and on its knees. It wants to be timely and satirical, but it’s weirdly contrived and boring; it wants to be romantic and appealing, but it’s cold, and instead of providing solace in these difficult times, promotes the idea of how to exploit them to one’s own benefit. There are a couple of good jokes (poor Edgar Allan Poe, though), and Hathaway is more beautiful every day, but mostly, it’s a tedious parade of pointless dialogues that no normal person would ever utter, and I believe this should be about normal people. I really don’t know why Liman got into this – Knight has been writing crap for a long time and not even the best director could have saved this. It’s about the coronavirus and it flies… 40%
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Le contexte actuel se prête à tous les angles d’approche : psychologique, sociologique, biologique, pédagogique, philosophique, sexologique, sanitaire, sportif, économique… Bref, tout peut y passer et ce n’est pas les options qui manquent aux cinéastes. Et le premier à s’engouffrer dans la brèche échoue royalement et fait un fiasco total. C’était affreusement pénible et j’ai dû mordre sur ma chique pendant tout le métrage pour rester jusqu’au bout. Si je ne m’étais pas imposé la règle de toujours regarder les films jusqu’à la fin, j’aurais arrêté un peu avant le milieu. Il y avait peut-être deux blagues réussies et de temps en temps, on s’intéressait aux quelques sujets qui nous accablent tous en ce moment, mais pour le reste, c’est une véritable catastrophe. Je me demande d’ailleurs comment Anne Hathaway a pu accepter ce rôle.
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