Paul Thomas Anderson whets your appetite with "Licorice Pizza"

• In 1973, in Los Angeles, Gary met Alana.

• Their relationship which oscillates between friendship and love garnishes this "Licorice Pizza" with bittersweet flavors.

• Promising young actors and stars like Sean Penn or Bradley Cooper bring additional happiness to the viewer.

The  title

 cannot be eaten.

It's the name of a chain of stores that sold vinyl records (the famous "liquorice pizzas") in 1970s California, before giving its title to Paul Thomas Anderson's new film.

This is a difficult love story between two young people, Alana and Gary, and to tell it, the director of

relied on the stories of one of his friends, an ambitious young entrepreneur. .

“It made me want to relive this period that I idealized because I did not really live it being born in 1970, confides the filmmaker to

s.

is not a nostalgic movie.

It's a walk in an America that I find cinematic.

"

Race against time

For this romantic and eccentric ballad, the filmmaker makes two exceptional performers debut on the screen. He wrote his film with Alana Haim, a member of the Haim group in mind, and assisted him with Cooper Hoffman. The latter is the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman actor who died in 2014 who was one of the favorites of the filmmaker from 

to

via

. “I don't know if the talent is hereditary,” explains Paul Thomas Anderson. But after all, why not ? Cooper turned out to be breathtakingly natural in the face of Alana who, for her part, had a little more experience thanks to her career as a musician. "

This duo - him barely out of adolescence, she a little older - gallops in a Los Angeles unknown to the general public with a lot of dazzling sequences where they run as if they were trying to beat the clock.

“This is the idea I have of the 1970s, insists the filmmaker.

I see it as a moment of freedom where everything was possible and where you had to work extra hard to enjoy it.

This is what the hero does, a child star who launches into the waterbeds then pinball business with equal enthusiasm.

Star friends

Around this couple with the invigorating freshness, Paul Thomas Anderson gathered star friends like Sean Penn, Benny Safdie, Tom Waits and especially Bradley Cooper, astonishing in the role of Jon Peters, rather agitated Hollywood producer.

"I called on friends that my family and I have been seeing for years," says Paul Thomas Anderson.

I hope that the public will feel included in our complicity and that they will accept to be the accomplice of our delusions.

»We bite into our

with the immense pleasure of a delicious moment of cinema.

And when it ends, we would take back part of it.

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