The Elephant Man (Rétrospective David Lynch)
The Elephant Man (Rétrospective David Lynch)
The Elephant Man
USA 1980 | vostf | 122’ | De : David Lynch | Avec : John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud
Londres, 1884. Un chirurgien découvre dans une baraque foraine un jeune homme, John Merrick, hideusement déformé par une étrange maladie, exhibé comme « homme-éléphant ».
« Mélodrame à l’état pur, inspiré d’une histoire véridique, c’est un film onirique, parfois bouleversant, qui jette un regard sans concession sur l’Angleterre victorienne. » (Dictionnaire des films, Éd. Larousse)
« Though I had seen his first film Eraserhead, and had thought him a true original, I wasn’t prepared for the strength Lynch would bring out of understatement. It might be expected that the material would push him into the kind of morbid masochism that was displayed in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. But this young director (he’s 34) has extraordinary taste; it’s not the kind of taste that enervates artists — it’s closer to grace. » (Pauline Kael, The New Yorker)
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