• Elvis Presley was revealed by Colonel Parker who exploited him.

  • Baz Lhurmann autopsies their relationship in "Elvis."

  • The Tom Hanks/Austin Butler face-to-face is exciting.

We learn a lot about the King and his manager in

Elvis

by Baz Luhrmann, discovered in Cannes out of competition!

Or more precisely how Elvis Presley (1935-1977) fell under the control of Colonel Parker, a mysterious greedy agent who placed him in the spotlight before shamelessly exploiting him.

Tom Hanks, always so convincing, embodies this devious character ready to sacrifice the interests of his foal on the altar of his own profit.

“He was both a genius and a scoundrel, explains the actor in the press kit.

He was a very disciplined guy but it was better to recount his tickets in his wallet after having met him.

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A sex bomb

Austin Butler, who plays the 17 to 42-year-old rocker, gives him the answer in a remarkable way and it is their duo that fascinates for this flamboyant biopic.

The film lifts the veil on their relations, which had nothing to do with a long calm river, while evoking the evolution of mores in America between the mid-1950s and the end of the 1970s. When we see him aging, he is hard to imagine that Elvis was a sex bomb who put the spectators in a trance to the point of triggering the indignation of puritanical politicians and virtue leagues.

We discover in particular that the manager sent his foal to the army in Germany in 1958 when the latter caused too many scandals with his suggestive swaying.

It would also be him who then pushed him to erase his sexy image and who favored his breakup with Priscilla Beaulieu.

He would have forced the King to stay in Las Vegas, all because the colonel needed to settle considerable gambling debts with a notorious mobster.

And he would even have favored the early death of the star at the young age of 42…

Never without the Colonel

This vitriolic portrait of a greedy man with a mysterious past makes

Elvis

thrilling because we take pleasure in hating this unscrupulous being.

Between two superb musical numbers paying homage to the genius of the King, the psychological study of his relationship with his manager describes his personality.

We love Elvis Presley after seeing Baz Lhurmann's film.

We mourn his broken life like his shortened career while recognizing that he probably would not have acquired the same star status without a certain Colonel Parker.

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