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<title><![CDATA[INLAND DRIFT]]></title>
<link>http://thisisflik.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/inland-drift/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[stopped by inland drift saturday to kick it for a bit, started off slow but got very interesting whe]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Grindhouse, Il Divo, Parallax and PDXFilm Presents a Special Screening!]]></title>
<link>http://pdxfilm.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/june-25-july-2/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Last night, I lucked into the very last ticket to see David Byrne and was reminded why I prefer cine]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Last night, I lucked into the very last ticket to see David Byrne and was reminded why I prefer cinema to music venues.  At the cinema, the program starts ON TIME.  At the cinema, people don&#8217;t talk and if they do, they are scolded by the patrons.  Talking during a film is socially unacceptable and rude.  At the cinema, audiences are not constantly getting up from their seats and wandering around.  At the cinema, people don&#8217;t stand up to watch action scenes and then sit down for quiet scenes.  At the cinema, there aren&#8217;t dweeby security guards bossing the audience around.  Why is it so different?  Because at the cinema, PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION.</p>
<p>At the cinema, what is happening in front of the audience is all there is.  There&#8217;s no chatting up girls, no videotaping with cell phones (which makes about as much sense as videotape yourself fucking; it&#8217;s always more boring on video), no texting to your friend in the other aisle because the audience is FOCUSED, dreaming awake collectively, rapt by &#8220;The Holy Moment&#8221; of cinema.  Music venues function as backgrounds for socialization, and you know, I did not pay sixty bucks to be a guest at someone else&#8217;s party.  I came to dream, my dream of David Byrne.  I&#8217;m sorry, but I just don&#8217;t trust music venues anymore.  I&#8217;m tired of being corralled by age into specific areas and having some knuckle dragging troglodyte stamp my wrist with a beaver so I can get back in, none of which happens at the cinema.  The cinema is a place of unspoken respect for the collective experience.  So goodbye and no thanks to music.  I&#8217;ll stick to my cinema dreams where people care enough to mindfully pay full attention and respect the moment.</p>
<p>Now then&#8230;</p>
<p>Some real doozies this week.  First off, Portland&#8217;s gift to pulp cinema, Dan Halsted of Grindhouse, brings us the only surviving 35mm print of one of the most revered martial arts film ever made,<strong> 7 GRANDMASTERS (Joseph Kuo, Taiwan, 1978)</strong> shot with a glorious 2.35 super wide aspect ratio!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-549" title="7Grandmasters" src="http://pdxfilm.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/7grandmasters1.jpg" alt="7Grandmasters" width="271" height="408" /></p>
<p>To quote Dan&#8217;s website, &#8220;A kung fu teacher sets out to prove that he is the greatest fighter by finding and defeating the seven Grandmasters. One by one, he fights their wide variety of animal styles (tiger, leopard, mantis, monkey, etc.) He also puts a young student through elaborate training, and is followed by a mysterious kung fu villain wearing a weird hat. Let&#8217;s be honest though, how important is the plot when a jaw-dropping kung fu fight breaks out every few minutes? Featuring all the best old school sound effects, fighting styles, martial arts weapons, and silver haired villains with maniacal laughter. Directed by the great Joseph Kuo and starring Jack Long and Mark Long (the original Ghostface Killer) This is one of the top five kung fu movies of all time!&#8221;</p>
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<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the print is in the original Mandarin language (most HK films during this era were in Cantonese) or dubbed in English like the above trailer, but it doesn&#8217;t matter too much.  Just go.  This is an event.  Really.  I know a lot of you are fans of that Tarantino guy, but THIS is a film that Tarantino is a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge fan of.  I recommend you go to the source.</p>
<p>7 GRANDMASTERS plays ONE NIGHT ONLY, Saturday, June 27th at 7:45pm at The Hollywood Theatre.  Drop all your other plans and go.  If you&#8217;re new to the genre, start NOW.</p>
<p>Speaking of Tarantino, if anyone wants to read the script for INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (yes, that&#8217;s how he&#8217;s spelling the title), I have it so drop me a line at pdxfilm@mac.com.  I always heard he couldn&#8217;t spell worth a damn, but I had to read one of his scripts to see how bad his spelling really is.  Wow.</p>
<p>Also at The Hollywood Theatre starting Friday, the most dazzling, confounding, flamboyant and operatic piece of virtuoso filmmaking you&#8217;re likely to ever see, <strong>IL DIVO (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, 2008)</strong> which won the Prix du Jury at Cannes 2008.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-551" title="ildivo" src="http://pdxfilm.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/ildivo.jpg" alt="ildivo" width="451" height="338" /></p>
<p>For the life of me, when my best friend and I saw this at PIFF last year, we couldn&#8217;t follow it at all and we really didn&#8217;t care.  It was as if we were being whisked through the history of contemporary Italian politics in a cherry red Ferrari while blaring <a href="http://mixturtle.com/song/526541/1/cincinnati-pops-orchestra---danse-macabre_-op_-40.html">Danse Macabre, Opus 40<em> </em>by Camille Saint-Saëns</a> with all the windows down.  We had no idea where we were or what was happening, but we were giddy like school children dizzy on lemonade.</p>
<p>Here.  Just watch the beginning of the movie.  It&#8217;s only two minutes long.  Watch in full screen.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/A_n1PgISVn4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/A_n1PgISVn4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.luckyred.it/ildivo/sito_en/home.html">And the trailer can be viewed on the official IL DIVO website HERE.<br />
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For more than 50 years, Giulio Andreotti has been Italy&#8217;s most powerful, feared and enigmatic politician. And as he begins his seventh term as Prime Minister, he and his hardliner faction take control of a country reeling from the brazen murders of several high-level bankers, judges and journalists, as well as the kidnapping and assassination of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. But as the Christian Democrat party crumbles in a nationwide bribery scandal, suspicion begins to fall on Andreotti himself as the center of a shocking conspiracy involving the Vatican, the Mafia and the secret neo-Fascist Masonic Lodge P2. In what is called The Trial Of The Century, Italy&#8217;s legendary Senator for Life will stand accused of corruption, collusion and murder.  That&#8217;s the story, a true one, but go for the filmmaking.  MUST SEE.</p>
<p>IL DIVO starts Friday at The Hollywood Theatre.  Check website for showtimes.</p>
<p>Still playing at The Hollywood, one of the most innovative and existential thrillers you&#8217;re likely to ever see, <strong>REVANCHE (Götz Spielmann, Austria, 2008) </strong>which was nominated for Best Foreign Film last year and won countless European awards.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-525" title="revanche" src="http://pdxfilm.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/revanche.jpg" alt="revanche" width="510" height="721" /></p>
<p>At once  gripping and tragic of nearly Greek proportions, REVANCHE is the stunning international breakthrough debut from Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann. In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerizing Johannes Krisch) works as an assistant in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara (Irina Potapenko). Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop (Andreas Lust) and his seemingly content wife (Ursula Strauss). With meticulous, elegant direction, Spielmann creates a tense, surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption, and a journey into the darkest forest of human nature, in which violence and beauty exist side by side.  This is one of the best films of the year.</p>
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<div><span>REVANCHE plays for one more week at The Hollywood Theatre.  Check website for showtimes.</span></div>
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<p>Starting Friday at The Laurelhurst is <strong>THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula, U.S., 1974)</strong> starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn and gorgeous cinematography by Gordon Willis who shot The Godfather and Annie Hall.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-552" title="Parallax View" src="http://pdxfilm.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/parallax-view.jpg" alt="Parallax View" width="510" height="790" /></p>
<p>Of the three films that make up director Alan J. Pakula&#8217;s &#8220;paranoid trilogy&#8221; (Klute, All the President&#8217;s Men and THE PARALLAX VIEW), the latter most strongly conveys the paranoid atmosphere of the 1960s and &#8217;70s. A stylish suspense-thriller, THE PARALLAX VIEW mirrors the political distrust Americans began to feel during the period following the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, culminating in the Watergate conspiracy. The film stars Warren Beatty as investigative journalist Joe Frady, whose former girlfriend and colleague, Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss), witnesses the assassination of a U.S. senator at the Seattle Space Needle. A government report declares it the work of a lone gunman, but when eyewitnesses begin showing up dead, Carter is convinced that a wider conspiracy is at work. Probing deeper, Frady uncovers the operations of the Parallax Corporation, which recruits social misfits and uses mind control techniques to turn them into assassins. In keeping with classic 1970s film, the story is a suspenseful, well-acted thriller with a surprise ending that will resound with the viewer long after the credits start rolling.  Plus the film brilliantly employs the use of montage.  Check out this sequence from the testing room.  It&#8217;s genius.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/MNMi8fXi5Os&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/MNMi8fXi5Os&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>THE PARALLAX VIEW starts Friday at The Laurelhurst.  Check website for showtimes.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t forget, you only have one more week to see one of the best films of the year at The Laurelhurst, Jim Jarmusch&#8217;s THE LIMITS OF CONTROL.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/YJQ5bLmYGm0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/YJQ5bLmYGm0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>AND LASTLY&#8230;<strong>PDXFilm Presents</strong> this coming Independence Day weekend, <strong>TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE (Trey Parker, U.S., 2004)! </strong>Yup, this July 3rd, PDXFilm is presenting one of the most subversive comedies made this decade as we celebrate the coming of a new political era (we hope) and wave goodbye to ignorance and arrogance of the Bush Era.  Come celebrate with me July 3rd at 11pm.  This screening is only SIX BUCKS!  21 and over only as Cinema 21 now serves beer and wine.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-553" title="team_america_2004_poster" src="http://pdxfilm.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/team_america_2004_poster.jpg" alt="team_america_2004_poster" width="510" height="750" /></p>
<p>TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE, with a $30 million budget, was made entirely using marionettes in the style of the 60&#8217;s British television series, Thunderbirds.  The puppetry is deft and creative, the production design is detailed and loaded with secret jokes (the streets of Paris are cobblestones that look like croissants, to name one of many), and in typical Trey Parker form, the film holds no alliance to any politics, vilifying all abuses of power and imperiousness.  But more than that, this is also an attack on the crappy action films made in Hollywood.  Idiotic dialogue, impossible plot points, completely neutered sex scenes and lots and lots and lots of destruction and pro-military imperialism.  And I appologize in advance but the film print does not include the famous golden showers and Hot Carl scene.</p>
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<p>TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE plays Friday, July 3rd only at 11PM.  SIX BUCKS.  21 and over only.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll see you there.</p>
<p>tenzispdxfilm</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Klute]]></title>
<link>http://noreille.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/klute/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dans son livre &#8220;La totalité comme complot&#8221; (voir les épisodes précédents ici et ici), Fr]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Dans son livre &#8220;La totalité comme complot&#8221; (voir les épisodes précédents <a href="http://noreille.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/la-totalite-comme-complot/">ici</a> et <a href="http://noreille.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/retour-a-la-conspiration-premiere-partie/">ici</a>), Fredric Jameson fait du film &#8220;Klute&#8221; un des trois volets de ce qu&#8217;il appelle la &#8220;trilogie de la paranoïa&#8221; du cinéaste Alan J.Pakula. Une trilogie dont les autres épisodes seraient &#8220;<a href="http://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?intervenant=&#38;morceau=&#38;titre=A+cause+d%27un+Assassinat&#38;x=0&#38;y=0">A cause d&#8217;un Assassinat</a>&#8221; en 1974 et &#8220;<a href="http://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;titre=Les+Hommes+du+Pr%E9sident&#38;ref=&#38;supa[1]=1&#38;supa[2]=1&#38;supa[3]=1&#38;supa[4]=1&#38;supa[5]=1&#38;supa[7]=1&#38;supa[6]=1&#38;supa[8]=1&#38;__utma=12944426.623797522.1213974536.1213974536.1213974536.1&#38;__utmb=12944426&#38;__utmc=12944426&#38;__utmz=12944426.1213974536.1.1.utmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29&#38;supports=&#38;details=&#38;ofs=0">Les Hommes du Président</a>&#8221; en 1976. Ces trois films pourtant si différents constituent selon Jameson trois facettes d&#8217;une même intrigue. Trilogie de la paranoïa et non du complot, car le film est en effet l&#8217;exception dans une longue série de films politiques. Tous les autres ont à voir avec ce que Jameson appelle la thématique politique en tant que &#8220;sujet spécifique, associé à Washington ou aux élections&#8221;. Un genre dans lequel se rangent également des films comme &#8220;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055728/">Tempète à Washington</a>&#8221; d&#8217;Otto Preminger, &#8220;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/">Point Limite</a> &#8221; de Sydney Lumet, &#8220;<a href="http://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;intervenant=tim+robbins&#38;titre=bob+roberts&#38;ref=&#38;supa[1]=1&#38;supa[2]=1&#38;supa[3]=1&#38;supa[4]=1&#38;supa[5]=1&#38;supa[7]=1&#38;supa[6]=1&#38;supa[8]=1&#38;__utma=12944426.623797522.1213974536.1213974536.1213982385.2&#38;__utmc=12944426&#38;__utmz=12944426.1213974536.1.1.utmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29&#38;Mediatheque_choisie=&#38;__utmb=12944426&#38;supports=&#38;details=&#38;ofs=0">Bob Roberts</a>&#8221; de Tim Robbins, ou même &#8220;<a href="http://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;titre=dead+zone&#38;ref=&#38;supa[1]=1&#38;supa[2]=1&#38;supa[3]=1&#38;supa[4]=1&#38;supa[5]=1&#38;supa[7]=1&#38;supa[6]=1&#38;supa[8]=1&#38;__utma=12944426.623797522.1213974536.1213974536.1213974536.1&#38;__utmb=12944426&#38;__utmc=12944426&#38;__utmz=12944426.1213974536.1.1.utmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29&#38;Mediatheque_choisie=&#38;supports=&#38;details=&#38;ofs=0">Dead Zone</a>&#8221; de Cronenberg. &#8220;Klute&#8221; est en comparaison un film &#8220;purement&#8221; policier, un film noir, basé sur l&#8217;histoire d&#8217;amour inattendue entre une call-girl de Manhattan, Bree Daniels(Jane Fonda) et un policier de la campagne, John Klute (Donald Sutherland). Parti à la recherche d&#8217;un ami disparu, Klute suit la piste de celui-ci jusqu&#8217;à la prostituée, dernier contact connu de cet ami.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">L&#8217;intrigue tourne tout doucement au thriller, au fur et à mesure que l&#8217;enquête progresse, et qu&#8217;il ne fait plus aucun doute que Daniels est l&#8217;objet d&#8217;une surveillance particulière, double de celle établie jusque là par Klute. La traque se resserre et se précise pour culminer dans une scène terrifiante, que je ne puis évidemment vous raconter&#8230; Il y a complot, c&#8217;est indéniable, et tous les ingrédients traditionnels du film de ce type, les écoutes, les filatures, les micros cachés, l&#8217;intrigue, le mystère, la trahison et le double-jeu, sont en place. Mais le fond de l&#8217;histoire ici, est bien plus &#8220;simplement&#8221; une affaire &#8220;civile&#8221;, une intrigue policière qu&#8217;une conspiration politique. Contrairement aux deux autres volets de la trilogie, ce qui sera révélé au final sera bien trivial, comparé aux conspirations sans visage d&#8217;&#8221;A cause d&#8217;un assassinat&#8221; et à la Haute Trahison du <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandale_du_Watergate">Watergate</a> dévoilée par &#8220;Les hommes du Président&#8221;. Quoique tout aussi dangereux et potentiellement fatal, ce qui se passe ici, bien que relevant du complot est du ressort du domaine privé. La raison pour laquelle Fredric Jameson considère ce film comme faisant partie d&#8217;une trilogie le reliant au deux autres, est à trouver en partie dans la disproportion entre les deux milieux, celui de la call-girl Jane Fonda, new-yorkaise, et son demi-monde, et celui du policier de Pennsylvanie, Donald Sutherland, inflexible, à la limite du rigide, (qui se révèle au final, le vrai sentimental du lot).<!--more--></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Jameson: &#8220;Dans ces films, l&#8217;opposition public/privé se trouve déjà présentée sous un jour inhabituel. C&#8217;est précisément cette opposition qui fait l&#8217;originalité de &#8220;Klute&#8221;, qui n&#8217;est officiellement pas un film &#8220;politique&#8221; du tout. (&#8230;) Car ce film a ceci d&#8217;exceptionnel qu&#8217;il déploie la tension entre public et privé sous la forme de l&#8217;opposition entre ce qui demeure la ville, ou l&#8217;urbain, et cet espace qui n&#8217;est déjà plus la campagne, mais pas encore la banlieue (&#8230;) &#8221; Les sources du mensonge, les raisons du complot sont principalement la nécessité de masquer ce qui dissocie les personnalités officielles des &#8220;clients&#8221; de Bree, et leurs fantasmes privés, leurs perversions. Pour conserver ceux-ci secrets, il est impératif pour les plus en vue de ceux-ci de  faire échouer les recherches du policier, ou d&#8217;en éliminer les témoins. Le film suit donc le canevas de l&#8217;investigation menée dans &#8220;A cause d&#8217;un assassinat&#8221;, où l&#8217;enquête qui semblait gênante, se voit manipuler par les coupables eux-mêmes.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc221/martiensgohome/klute-jf3.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;Ce qui se dégage de ces films, et tout particulièrement des figures publiques qu&#8217;ils présentent, c&#8217;est une totale dissociation des réalités publiques et des réalités privées, selon des modalités qui sont certes cohérentes avec la culture de l&#8217;image, mais qui, de ce fait, bloquent l&#8217;ancienne littérature &#8220;politique&#8221; où la question de la personnalité de l&#8217;homme politique conservait une place substantielle.&#8221; Selon des procédés identiques aux conspirations décrites dans ses films suivants, Pakula nous fait découvrir/visiter un monde secret, insoupçonné de l&#8217;enquêteur. A la différence que l&#8217;envers du décor n&#8217;est pas ici une organisation occulte, impliquée dans une entreprise criminelle de déstabilisation politique, mais le monde interlope de Bree Daniels, ses collègues, ses protecteurs et ses clients. Le film nous ballade de situations en situations, reconstruisant l&#8217;univers de la call-girl, dans lequel le policier va plonger.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Le contenu, scandaleux pour l&#8217;époque, de cet univers interlope, et la réaction de Donald Sutherland à ce qu&#8217;il va y trouver, est le thème final de &#8220;Klute&#8221;. Citant Georg Simmel, Jameson rappelle que &#8220;ce que la prostitution comporte de scandaleux pour les classes moyennes, ce n&#8217;est pas la dégradation du corps, de la sexualité et de l&#8217;amour, mais plutôt l&#8217;inverse : une dégradation de l&#8217;argent qui résulte de son association avec les fonctions sexuelles.&#8221; Ici encore c&#8217;est un processus d&#8217;inversion qui est en marche. Le personnage de Jane Fonda va se révéler sinon plus équilibré (ses multiples séances de psychanalyse vont nous dévoiler ses doutes, ses attentes inabouties) du moins plus adapté au monde qui l&#8217;entoure, un monde gouverné par le profit, le commerce, l&#8217;exploitation. Jameson verra en elle une héroïne capitaliste, non pas menant sa barque, mais construisant sa &#8220;carrière&#8221; en réelle professionnelle, parfaitement à l&#8217;aise dans l&#8217;hypocrisie fondatrice du capitalisme tardif. Selon le principe de l&#8217;&#8221;obliquité&#8221; observé par Jameson, c&#8217;est au travers d&#8217;un enquête policière que peut se révéler un discours de type politique, et une analyse de type économique. Le prétexte utilisé par Pakula lui permet, ici comme dans les autres films de sa trilogie, de démonter des mécanismes socio-économiques, et donc des mécanismes politiques, sous couvert d&#8217;un mystère parallèle, justifiant l&#8217;enquête qui les met à jour. La lumière sera ainsi faite à la fois sur ce prétexte et sur des thématiques plus importantes.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc221/martiensgohome/klute-psy.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dans ce but, le choix de Pakula est délibéré de ne pas proposer des personnages stéréotypés. Il montre au contraire une prostituée &#8220;libérée&#8221;, moderne, ni fille de saloon, ni tapineuse, mais plutôt femme d&#8217;affaire, moderne, prenant sa vie en main, tout en faisant également quelqu&#8217;un de froid, désabusé, quasi cynique. Si le personnage peut être lu comme une icône féministe par certains aspects, il est également une critique de la société capitaliste. Il n&#8217;y a pas de question morale autour du métier de Bree, simplement des questions professionnelles, des questions de concurrence et de marché. Elle se montre très à l&#8217;aise dans son rôle de &#8220;prestataire de service&#8221;, ne cherchant pas à en défendre l&#8217;utilité, ou la moralité mais en en expliquant (notamment dans ces fameuses et nombreuses scènes de psychanalyse) la rationalité et la rentabilité. Si elle est victime de la société, ce n&#8217;est pas en tant que prostituée, puisqu&#8217;elle insiste sur le fait que le choix de sa carrière est délibéré, mais bien comme victime de la ville, du surmenage, de New-York, de l&#8217;Amérique. En désamorçant par avance tout préjugé et toute réprobation morale que pourrait avoir le spectateur moyen, Pakula fait de Bree Daniels le miroir déformant de l&#8217;Amérique capitaliste.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Film noir, urbain, &#8220;Klute&#8221; est paradoxalement un thriller lent, un film d&#8217;atmosphère qu&#8217;on peut comparer à des classiques du  polar &#8220;à la&#8221; Raymond Chandler&#8221; comme le sera à la même époque &#8220;<a href="http://www.lamediatheque.be/med/rech_n.php?ser=&#38;titre=chinatown&#38;ref=&#38;supa[1]=1&#38;supa[2]=1&#38;supa[3]=1&#38;supa[4]=1&#38;supa[5]=1&#38;supa[7]=1&#38;supa[6]=1&#38;supa[8]=1&#38;__utma=12944426.623797522.1213974536.1213974536.1213982385.2&#38;__utmc=12944426&#38;__utmz=12944426.1213974536.1.1.utmccn%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcsr%3D%28direct%29%7Cutmcmd%3D%28none%29&#38;Mediatheque_choisie=&#38;__utmb=12944426&#38;supports=&#38;details=&#38;ofs=2">Chinatown</a>&#8220;, évoquant les films de détectives des décades précédentes, les John Huston, les Jules Dassin, plus que les films policiers de son temps. Tout en prises de vues sombres, extrêmement léchées, il se veut un bel objet visuel, jouant de cet aspect urbain, archétypique du film noir, pour distiller un sentiment de paranoia, résultant autant de la surveillance constante, puis de la traque, dont Bree est l&#8217;objet, que du sentiment d&#8217;oppression que Pakula attribue à la vie à Manhattan. Ici encore la ville, dans l&#8217;état de délabrement, d&#8217;abandon où il était dans les années septante, avec sa surpopulation mal gérée, son aliénation, est un élément clé d&#8217;une critique sociale qui ne s&#8217;arrête pas aux limites de l&#8217;ile, mais peut être étendue au reste des Etats-Unis, voire au reste du monde. Comme le dit Pakula: &#8220;New York is a place where one can get a more intense view of our society than anywhere else in the world&#8221;.</p>
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