Guerre civile

Récit d'anticipation d'une actualité criante. Simplifications et flottements dans le scénario. Scènes de guerre percutantes. K. Dunst excellente. Solide distribution.

Alex Garland's Civil War dares to show us a hell of our own making in an attempt to keep it from ever happening.

Dans son nouveau film, Alex Garland (Ex Machina) examine la violence d'une guerre civile américaine, et plonge Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura et Cailee Spaeny dans le conflit.

La fin ne plaira pas à tous, mais n'empêchera pas Civil War de nous habiter pendant des jours.

Et dans ce brouhaha entre le faux calme et l'intensité du moment, une sorte de remise en question de soi, d'une profession qu'on a jadis menée tambour battant. Sur ce point, Kirsten Dunst excelle.

Garland has always been a director of big ideas, and Civil War is no exception when it comes to that ambitiousness. But he's also reaching for an intimacy here that his screenplay doesn't quite deliver on.

A literal shock to the system, Civil War is designed to be divisive.

It is a film about journalistic ethics and, in its own way, the interpretation of images is grounded in [Dunst's] outstanding performance. It isn't an easy role to inhabit, but she does so perfectly.