Steve Jobs

D'entrée de jeu, on reconnaît dans cette allégorie biographique l'esprit aiguisé et le débit verbomoteur du scénariste Aaron Sorkin (The Social Nerwork, les séries The West Wing et The Newsroom). Celui-ci fait de l'homme d'affaires le plus craint de ses proches et le plus admiré de la planète le creuset d'une réflexion brillante, toujours d'actualité, sur le pouvoir et la vertu.

For those who subscribe to the generally held view that the late co-founder of Apple was both an iconic visionary and a monster with a silicon chip where his heart should be, rest assured that writer Aaron Sorkin, director Danny Boyle and star Michael Fassbender have given their subject the brilliant, maddening, ingeniously designed and monstrously self-aggrandizing movie he deserves. 

Boyle proves to be a very inspired choice to helm the film; it ends up being a little less hyperkinetic than we're used to with him. Using three different formats to bring each act to life (the first act was shot on 16mm, the second 35mm and the third DV), Boyle allows Sorkin's script and his dynamic cast to lead the way, only occasionally inserting stylistic flourishes such as having type appear on screen or stock footage project in the background.

Cheers to master filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 127 Hours) for directing Sorkin's three-act play with the hurtling speed of a white-knuckle thriller. 

Fidèle à lui-même, Danny Boyle offre un long métrage extrêmement rythmé, la musique de Daniel Pemberton, de même que le débit des répliques d'Aaron Sorkin venant appuyer ce sentiment constant de course folle. 

Mise en scène classique mais expressive , distribution de grande qualité dominée de bout en bout par un fabuleux Michael Fassbender, véritable merveille en terme d'écriture et d'efficacité narrative: Steve Jobs est l'une des plus passionnantes propositions que le cinéma américain a offert cette année.

Racing in high gear from start to finish, Danny Boyle's electric direction temperamentally complements Sorkin's highly theatrical three-act study, which might one day be fascinating to experience in a staged setting.

The result is a movie that feels like a series of beautifully and meticulously crafted tiles in a half-finished mosaic; you can admire the pieces but still come away feeling like you've been deprived of the whole.

In Danny Boyle's kaleidoscopic new biopic, Steve Jobs, he's both: equal parts beautiful mind and bully.

The Steve Jobs film we want, and deserve.

This a super-Sorkiny Aaron Sorkin script - full of the kind of well-timed zingers and clever turns of phrase that never occur to us in real life.

La réalisation de Boyle, toujours à l'avenant et s'adaptant selon les époques, est d'un dynamisme incroyable. Qui rappelle même parfois Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) sur le plan formel.

Quant aux interprètes, tous, sans exceptions, s'avèrent magnifiques. Sans oublier Michael Fassbender, l'un des plus charismatiques et des plus versatiles de sa génération. Son Steve Jobs restera longtemps dans notre mémoire.