We saw “Eddington”, a biting and dismal dive in the American nightmare

One met him in Cannes. Furthermore, he is still a young boy, only 38 years old, at the Intello’s round glasses, who smiles a lot and speaks little, clearly shy, in an amazing contrast with his status: Ari Aster is among the most prominent filmmakers in Hollywood. Consequently, He is a part. Consequently, with Robert Eggers (“Nosferatu”) and Jordan Peele (“nope”) of a prestigious club of the three, a trio of directors celebrated for having reinvented the horror film, by approaching this genre with a new aesthetic and political ambition. Meanwhile, A trendy terror cinema, which talks about the current world.

In full pandemic – We saw "eddington", biting dismal

Perhaps more than ever in “Eddington”, his fourth feature film. Moreover, This dark and incisive fable alive a America at the end of the roll. However, A sheriff who looks like a replet and tired cowboy, Joe Cross (Joaquin we saw “eddington”, biting dismal Phoenix), personifies this sick Empire. Meanwhile, The man seems rather sympathetic at the beginning, not mean, claims to be common sense. Similarly, He tries without achieving it because it is hardly taking him seriously to impose his authority in the small commune of Eddington. lost in the desert plains of New Mexico.

We are in May 2020, in the middle of the pandemic. American in devil. Joe Cross is wary of orders from the federal state and allows himself, although there is nothing to doubt, to doubt scientific discourse. Skaming, the sheriff even refuses to wear a mask. Unfortunate when you are supposed to represent the law.

A miniature America. trampled by paranoia, conspiracy and community hatreds

This funny zebra becomes more and more disturbing as the story highlights its dark share, an injured vanity, an account to settle with contemporary society, interior violence. In chaos created by the epidemic. he decides to we saw “eddington”, biting dismal try everything for everything, and to challenge, before the polls, the outgoing mayor, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal). His antithesis, a liberal, of Hispanic origin, environment convinced but above ground.

The often delusional confrontation between the two men turns to the game of massacre, in a boiling town. A miniature America, plagued by paranoia, conspiracy and community hatreds, populated by citizens hypnotized by their smartphones. The representation of reality on Facebook or Instagram has won: it replaced the real.

In the vein of the Coen brothers

Alas too long (2 h 25…). this tragic farce, in the vein of the Coen brothers, amazed by its formal mastery and its ideological freedom. Ari Aster is not satisfied to expand the “Maga” people. Too easy. Its unbridled acidity is unleashed all rounds. We cannot say. for example, that he offers a very flattering portrait of a group of “progressive” activists as arrogant as Neuneus, we saw “eddington”, biting dismal who see “victims” and “humiliations” everywhere.

Undoubtedly the best film on Trumpian America. in the broad sense, described as a society under dislocation, a drunk boat in full shipwreck.

“Eddington”, by Ari Aster, with Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone. Duration: 2 h 25. Prohibited – 12 years. Room release on Wednesday July 16.