GUARDA ANCHE: Il trailer di Babylon
Babylon è senza dubbio uno degli eventi cinematografici del 2022, e alcuni giornalisti statunitensi l’hanno visto ieri sera in anteprima al Samuel Goldwyn Theater di Beverly Hills: inutile dire che i loro commenti sono arrivati subito on-line.
Damien Chazelle mette in scena gli eccessi della Hollywood degli anni Venti, costruendo un epico racconto di 188 minuti che ha destato reazioni molto contrastanti. Alcuni lo hanno amato, come Jazz Tangcay di Variety, che l’ha definito “stravagante, decadente” e “una lettera d’amore al cinema”, con “la migliore performance di Margot Robbie finora” e “una straordinaria colonna sonora”. Anche il suo collega Clayton Davis ne è rimasto impressionato: “Un travolgente trip indotto dalla cocaina. La prima metà è fantastica. Probabilmente il nuovo film preferito di sempre da internet”. Courtney Howard, Jeff Nelson, Yolanda Machado e Kevin Polowy sono sulla stessa lunghezza d’onda nei loro elogi.
Di tutt’altro avviso, invece, Ryan Swen, giornalista freelance che fa parte della Los Angeles Film Critics Association: per lui, Babylon “è davvero mostruoso nella sua sorda insistenza a spingere la faccia dello spettatore nel fango e affermare che sia qualcosa di nuovo o commovente”. Gregory Ellwood di The Playlist sostiene che il film funzioni meglio nelle sue parti da commedia, poiché il dramma è quasi impalpabile. Anche Scott Menzel di We Live Entertainment non è affatto impressionato dal colossal di Chazelle, che definisce “un ambizioso pasticcio”, prima di chiudere lapidario: “Una lettera d’amore al cinema che mi ha fatto odiare il cinema”. Altrettanto critici Joshua Rothkopf ed Erik Weber.
L’uscita nelle sale statunitensi è attesa per il 23 dicembre, mentre in Italia arriverà a gennaio, distribuito da Eagle Pictures. Troverete le reazioni qui di seguito.
Extravagant, decadent and all together delightfully delicious. @babylonmovie is phenomenal filmmaking . This is Damien Chazelle’s love letter to movie making, and Margot Robbie’s best performance to date. The score is outstanding. pic.twitter.com/86zpBANE8D
— Jazz Tangcay (@jazzt) November 15, 2022
#Babylon feels like if someone read Damien Chazelle the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and then he said, “hold my beer!”
High octane, cocaine-inducing trip. First half is great. Likely the internet’s new favorite movie of all-time. Margot Robbie and Justin Hurwitz are your stars. pic.twitter.com/aM3rru1so0— Clayton Davis – Stand with 🇺🇦 (@ByClaytonDavis) November 15, 2022
BABYLON: Truly monstrous in its thudding insistence on shoving the viewer’s face in the muck and claiming it’s something novel or moving; Chazelle might be the most confident director in Hollywood today, of course he’s also got some of the worst instincts out there.
— Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tianxing (@swen_ryan) November 15, 2022
Also Justin Hurwitz ripping off his LaLa Land score is sending me
— Gregory Ellwood -The Playlist 🎬 (@TheGregoryE) November 15, 2022
Damien Chazelle brings buckets of energy to BABYLON, but it’s never not pounding and obvious and, finally, uninsightful. Everything about it is borrowed — even down to Tobey Maguire stealing the film as its Alfred Molina. A Scorsese coke film by a squeaky clean director.
— Joshua Rothkopf (@joshrothkopf) November 15, 2022
Damien Chazelle’s #BabylonMovie is a dazzling, dizzying cacophony of demented depravity. ❤️d! A rebellious, outrageous portrait of golden-era hedonistic Hollywood. Margot Robbie is a live wire. Diego Calva is sensational. Awe-inducing costume & production design. pic.twitter.com/tzDRZgMKvN
— Courtney Howard (@Lulamaybelle) November 15, 2022
#Babylon/#BabylonMovie is a daring Hollywood epic that utterly shocks the senses. Margot Robbie and Diego Calva give huge performances. Damien Chazelle incorporates his signature musicality and movement throughout. Justin Hurwitz’s score is one hell of a wall of sound. pic.twitter.com/RTlL9WhaKa
— Jeff Nelson (@SirJeffNelson) November 15, 2022
Babylon is an ambitious mess of a film. I don’t even know where to begin with this one but the tone is all over the place. Margot Robbie tries but the script fails her. A love letter to cinema that made me hate cinema. #BabylonMovie pic.twitter.com/BnKQiOz2Zd
— Scott Menzel (@ScottDMenzel) November 15, 2022
I truly wanted to love #BabylonMovie but for every scene that I liked there were like 4-5 scenes that followed that I despised. The actors really did try to elevate the material but it’s just a tonal mess that had me checking how much time was left repeatedly throughout.
— Scott Menzel (@ScottDMenzel) November 15, 2022
I have some really — really — bad news to share with you, #Babylon’s a flaming hot mess, a tonal disaster, easily Damien Chazelle’s worst film & one of the worst films of 2022 💀
— Erick MMT Weber (@ErickWeber) November 15, 2022
A coked-up Margot Robbie projectile vomiting all over the face of a stuffy old man in a tux pretty much sums up the chaotic energy and glorious messiness of BABYLON, truly the strangest, most debaucherous love letter to Hollywood ever.
— Kevin Polowy (@djkevlar) November 15, 2022
Babylon is A LOT of movie – a purposeful mess, a journey more than a film that feels every bit as much a the town it encompasses. There is a storyline I’m questioning… but Margot Robbie and Diego Calva are 🔥🔥 and the music!!! Oomph, the music and visuals are 💯!!!
— Yolanda Machado (@SassyMamainLA) November 15, 2022
GUARDA ANCHE: I poster di Babylon
Dal Premio Oscar Damien Chazelle, regista di LA LA LAND e WHIPLASH, un racconto memorabile ambientato nella Los Angeles degli anni ’20. BABYLON, una storia di ambizioni smisurate e di eccessi oltraggiosi, che ripercorre l’ascesa e la caduta di molteplici personaggi in un’epoca di sfrenata decadenza e depravazione nella sfavillante Hollywood.
Nel cast figurano Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Li Jun Li, Max Minghella, Flea, Samara Weaving, Olivia Wilde, Tobey Maguire, Phoebe Tonkin, Spike Jonze, Rory Scovel, Lukas Haas, Eric Roberts, P.J. Byrne, Damon Gupton, Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Jonah Platt, Telvin Griffin, Lukas Haas, Rory Scovel e Katherine Waterston.
Babylon è prodotto da Olivia Hamilton, Matt Plouffe, Marc Platt e Tobey Maguire. La sceneggiatura è opera dello stesso Chazelle.
Fonte: Variety