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After winning the Golden Lion in Venice and breaking attendance records for an October weekend in the United States, "Joker", by Todd Phillips, will be released in theaters in France on Wednesday, October 9th.
This is a film that we do not come out unscathed. One can even remain speechless after spending more than two hours in immersion with a sick man, subject to inexpressible laughs, the Joker.
But before being called so, this forty-year-old is called Arthur Fleck. While waiting to break through as a stand-up comedian, he earns his living as a street clown, a white-haired face and green-tinged hair. Mistreated, mocked, Arthur does not even benefit from a medical aid which it seems however to have much need.
Carried by the hallucinated, haunted incarnation of a 22-kilogram Joaquin Phoenix, Joker turns the character of a super villain of comics into a flag bearer despite nihilist riots ...
If the performance of Joaquin Phoenix is enthusiastic, this very realistic and non-Manichean reading of the character divides critics. And creates controversy.
In the United States, families of victims of the 2012 Aurora shootings have published an open letter to Warner Studio regretting the compassionate portrayal of this anti-hero. Todd Phillips says he wanted to show how an ultra-capitalist and inegalitarian system can lead to the emergence of a monster.