Johnny Depp knows how to scare in "Waiting for the Barbarians"

Johnny Depp in "Waiting for the Barbarians" by Ciro Guerra -

• Johnny Depp plays a sadistic officer in “Waiting For the Barbarian”, presented at the Deauville Festival in 2019.

• Robert Pattinson and Mark Rylance give him the answer in this anti-colonialist fable.

• The actor delivers a chilling and sober performance.

Ciro Guerra's

caused a sensation at the Deauville Festival 2019, just a year before its video release on M6 on Wednesday.

This cruel tale inspired by

 Nobel Literature Prize winner JM Coetzee's

marked Johnny Depp's return to screen as a sadistic officer.

Robert Pattinson as a detestable non-commissioned officer and Mark Rylance as an ambiguous magistrate give him the answer in this spellbinding film in which the director of

(2019) plunges the viewer into a country threatened by dictatorship.

"I found it interesting that its geographical location was never clearly given," Johnny Depp said in Deauville, during a crowded press conference.

What the film describes could take place anywhere and denounce the abuse of power by representatives of authority whoever they are.

This anti-colonialist fable leaves time for time to get its message across.

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An abused child

With his pinched mouth and his little dark glasses, the actor delivers a disturbing performance.

Far from the excessive characters he has often embodied, Johnny Depp remains as sober as he is chilling.

“Since I couldn't get anything through the eyes because of my dark glasses, I played on the monolithic side of this man whom I consider to be an abused child who externalizes his anger by persecuting others,” he explains. he.

This perverted soldier makes life difficult for a young girl played by the Mongolian actress Gana Bayarsaikhan, discovery of the film which brings real freshness to a patriarchal universe.

Preparation in music

“I think that the man I play can end up destroying himself or going into madness,” Johnny Depp admits.

On the set, the actor seems to have been much warmer than his terrifying character.

“He came with his guitar and played us songs between each take,” remembers Mark Rylance.

It was a good way to get in shape!

“Music fan, Johnny Depp even told him that he would love to make a documentary on Alice Cooper.

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