From Nicolas Cage’s career we would only like to retain the first films, Birdy, Arizona junior, Sailor and Lula, so much he was lost from the 2000s in mediocre commercial productions, intended to finance his lifestyle and his tax debts.
It is a young American director, Michael Sarnoski, who with his first film, Pig, finally allows Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew to return, at 57, to his best level.
“Nicolas Cage had personal reasons for having this experience.”
Michael sarnoskito franceinfo
If all is well in the pig, there is nothing to throw in Pig, dark film, silent, with false western airs. Nicolas Cage is there Rob, a recluse hermit in the forest near Portland in Oregon, he lives alone with his formidable truffle hunter sow.
When his pet is stolen, Rob must return to town and face the memories of a past he was fleeing. An unexpected duo is then formed between this admired former cook, now looking like a homeless man, and a young buyer of bling-bling truffles. In Pig the gastronomy is a nice pretext to evoke the loss, the women and mothers whose ghosts haunt the film, and Nicolas Cage, whose voice we rarely hear, delivers a monstrous performance, in the most complimentary sense of the term.
In this romantic and gory comedy at the same time, Fabrice Eboué and Marina Foïs play a couple of small traditional butchers caught between two fires: the competition of cheap industrial meat and the vegans who destroy their business.
“I made a radical film to make people want to go see it in theaters.”
Fabrice Ebouéto franceinfo
By accident and then by chance, the two mass-kill environmental activists and turn them into hams, sausages that their customers snatch at a high price. It’s totally amoral and bloody, but so well done that we find this murderous couple sympathetic, finally quite representative of all the people who send back to back junk food and vegan radicalism.
The dandy director, with an obsessively polished and poetic universe, may bring together a hallucinating cast, he struggles to breathe life into his, or rather his stories. The French Dispatch, installed in France in Blasé-sur-Ennui, is the cultural supplement of an American newspaper, tribute to the magazine le New Yorker and some very literary journalism.
Wes Anderson expresses all his love for France through three crazy stories about a cursed artist, May 68 and haute cuisine. The French Dispatch struggles to take off, yet it is the most aesthetically successful film of Wes Anderson.