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La particularit\u00e9 du film Alpha<\/i>, c\u2019est qu\u2019il nous permet enfin de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 une question qu\u2019on aurait d\u00fb se poser depuis longtemps : Julia Ducournau<\/b> n\u2019est-elle pas l\u2019une des r\u00e9alisatrices les plus surestim\u00e9es de notre \u00e9poque ? Je vais \u00eatre un peu sal\u00e9, mais apr\u00e8s son premier film Grave<\/i>, sympathique mais loin d\u2019\u00eatre une r\u00e9volution, et la grosse arnaque qu\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 sa Palme d\u2019Or Titane<\/i>, on pouvait l\u00e9gitimement se demander si la presse et le public ne s\u2019\u00e9taient pas emball\u00e9s un peu trop vite. Et la r\u00e9ponse nous est donn\u00e9e avec son dernier film Alpha<\/i> : non seulement la r\u00e9ponse est oui, mais surtout Ducournau<\/b> est tomb\u00e9e dans cette esp\u00e8ce d\u2019intellectualisation cin\u00e9matographique, digne des pires auteurs du cin\u00e9ma fran\u00e7ais.<\/p>\n
L\u2019histoire se situe dans les ann\u00e9es 80, alors que le monde doit faire face \u00e0 une nouvelle maladie transformant les gens en statues de marbre. La jeune Alpha (oui, c\u2019est son pr\u00e9nom), 13 ans, revient chez elle avec un tatouage sauvage sur le bras, provoquant la panique dans sa classe et l\u2019inqui\u00e9tude de sa m\u00e8re, m\u00e9decin. Sans compter qu\u2019ils devront accueillir Amin, l\u2019oncle d\u2019Alpha, toxicomane et contamin\u00e9 par le fameux virus.<\/p>\n
Allons droit au but : le virus est une m\u00e9taphore rat\u00e9e du VIH, tristement apparu dans les ann\u00e9es 80-90. Mais pour une raison inconnue, Ducournau<\/b> a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de faire en sorte que ce virus transforme les gens en marbre. Non seulement cela n\u2019apporte absolument rien \u00e0 l\u2019histoire, mais surtout rien ne l\u2019emp\u00eachait d\u2019aborder frontalement le sida et toutes les inqui\u00e9tudes qu\u2019il a suscit\u00e9es dans la population. Surtout que le film insiste beaucoup sur le sang et sur toute la parano\u00efa qu\u2019il engendre. Cette id\u00e9e de transformation en marbre n\u2019a aucun sens et ajoute une distance artificielle au r\u00e9cit, puisqu\u2019elle \u00ab embellit \u00bb les malades, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 Ducournau<\/b> s\u2019\u00e9tait faite conna\u00eetre par son go\u00fbt pour le body horror et avait l\u2019occasion de filmer de fa\u00e7on frontale les d\u00e9g\u00e2ts physiques qu\u2019une maladie peut causer.<\/p>\n
De plus, le film souffre d\u2019un montage alternant entre pass\u00e9 et pr\u00e9sent, caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par un code couleur (pr\u00e9sent en bleu, pass\u00e9 en jaune). Mais l\u2019histoire devient rapidement confuse, surtout vers la fin o\u00f9 les deux temporalit\u00e9s se m\u00e9langent, au point de d\u00e9courager le spectateur. Alpha est terriblement ennuyeux : aucune tension quant \u00e0 la contamination d\u2019Alpha, aucune inqui\u00e9tude r\u00e9elle. Le film zigzague maladroitement entre plusieurs arcs \u2014 celui d\u2019Amin, de la jeune fille et de la m\u00e8re. Ducournau<\/b> est persuad\u00e9e de faire preuve de subtilit\u00e9 et d\u2019intellectualisme, sans se rendre compte que tout cela est vain, sans int\u00e9r\u00eat\u2026 et tr\u00e8s laid. Plus haut, je parlais des codes couleurs pour diff\u00e9rencier les temporalit\u00e9s, mais malgr\u00e9 tout cela, le film est horriblement moche : la photographie est assez rat\u00e9e, \u00e0 deux ou trois plans pr\u00e8s.<\/p>\n
Ce qui sauve le film de la catastrophe totale, c\u2019est son casting, tr\u00e8s impliqu\u00e9 et talentueux. Golshifteh Farahani<\/b> restera \u00e0 jamais une formidable actrice, Tahar Rahim<\/b> (qui a perdu 20 kg pour ce r\u00f4le) s\u2019investit \u00e9norm\u00e9ment \u2014 peut-\u00eatre m\u00eame trop \u2014 et M\u00e9lissa Boros<\/b> est une belle r\u00e9v\u00e9lation. Ce trio aurait m\u00eame pu nous \u00e9mouvoir si leurs personnages avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 mieux \u00e9crits et leur parcours mieux d\u00e9finis.<\/p>\n
Alpha<\/i> est donc une preuve suppl\u00e9mentaire que Julia Ducournau<\/b> n\u2019\u00e9tait qu\u2019une hype \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re. Spectateurs et presse se sont emball\u00e9s trop vite, et la Palme d\u2019Or de Titane<\/i> l\u2019a propuls\u00e9e dans un \u00e9gotrip stylistique faussement rebelle. Il ne suffit pas de mettre du gore et deux ou trois sc\u00e8nes chocs pour se dire subversif : encore faut-il que la mise en sc\u00e8ne ait du sens, et surtout que le film raconte quelque chose. Or, \u00e0 force de se disperser dans tous les sens sans savoir o\u00f9 aller, Alpha ne raconte rien.<\/p>\n
Et si vraiment vous tenez \u00e0 soutenir le cin\u00e9ma de genre r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par des femmes, voici une liste non exhaustive : Natalie Erika James<\/b> (Relic<\/i>, 2020), Jennifer Kent<\/b> (Mister Babadook<\/i>, 2014), Coralie Fargeat<\/b> (The Substance<\/i>, 2024), Marjane Satrapi<\/b> (The Voices<\/i>, 2014), Mary Harron<\/b> (American Psycho<\/i>, 2000), Antonia Bird<\/b> (Vorace<\/i>, 1999), Mary Lambert<\/b> (Simetierre<\/i>, 1986)\u2026 et je terminerai par la meilleure r\u00e9alisatrice de notre \u00e9poque : Kathryn Bigelow<\/b>, dont je vous recommande la moiti\u00e9 de la filmographie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
La particularit\u00e9 du film Alpha, c\u2019est qu\u2019il nous permet enfin de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 une question qu\u2019on aurait d\u00fb se poser depuis longtemps : Julia Ducournau n\u2019est-elle pas l\u2019une des r\u00e9alisatrices les plus surestim\u00e9es de notre \u00e9poque ? Je vais \u00eatre un peu sal\u00e9, mais apr\u00e8s son premier film Grave, sympathique mais loin d\u2019\u00eatre une r\u00e9volution, et la grosse arnaque qu\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 sa Palme d\u2019Or Titane, on pouvait l\u00e9gitimement se demander si la presse et le public ne s\u2019\u00e9taient pas emball\u00e9s un peu trop vite. Et la r\u00e9ponse nous est donn\u00e9e avec son dernier film Alpha : non seulement la r\u00e9ponse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":36900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2454,2436,2437],"class_list":["post-36898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-zone","tag-art-zone","tag-cinema","tag-horreur"],"yoast_head":"\n
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