Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près

« Cette adaptation sensible du best-seller de Jonathan Safran Foer séduit surtout par la performance envoûtante du petit Thomas Horn, vraiment exceptionnel dans la peau d'un enfant volubile, surdoué, emmuré dans sa condition. »

« Le récit, à la fois drôle et dramatique, captive malgré de légères baisses de régime et une finale appuyée. Les thèmes happent et bouleversent, au même titre que toutes ces rencontres qui sont effectuées. »

« Le long métrage de Stephen Daldry est intelligent, raisonné, profond et stimulant. »

« With its occasional flashes of honesty Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close mostly proves that Foer's source material is solid, that the author wove a tricky and dense story that added up to something; by condensing it and excising many elements, Daldry has untangled a substantial knot that needed to stay exactly the way it was. »

« Overall, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a very emotionally satisfying film, and something that manages to be life-affirming despite dealing with one of the more tragic events of our generation. »

« An emotionally potent, noticeably literary story of a precious boy's reaction to his father's death on 9/11. »

« Unfortunately, the film's contrivances undermine his efforts. Screenwriter Eric Roth's adaptation leaves out large swaths, dropping key characters and radically changing the behavior of others. Alexandre Desplat's swelling score grows overbearing. »

« Solidly crafted, impeccably acted and self-important in the way that Oscar loves, Extremely Loud is also incredibly close to exploitation. »

« In truth, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close isn’t about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity and turn it into yet another wellspring of generic emotions: sadness, loneliness, happiness. This is how kitsch works. »