{"id":21447,"date":"2017-10-27T00:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=21447"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:45:34","slug":"flingueur-de-michael-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2017\/10\/27\/flingueur-de-michael-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Flingueur de Michael Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Side sort le 15 novembre une \u00e9dition DVD+Blu-ray+livret du <em>Flingueur <\/em>(<em>The Mechanic<\/em>, 1972) de Michael Winner avec Charles Bronson et Jan Michael Vincent.<\/p>\n<p><em>Le Flingueur<\/em> est sans doute le meilleur film de Winner. C\u2019est l\u2019une des grandes r\u00e9ussites de sa collaboration avec Charles Bronson. Mais c\u2019est bien plus que cela. Entach\u00e9 par la mauvaise r\u00e9putation de faiseur sans scrupules du britannique Winner, <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> compte pourtant parmi les thrillers les plus importants des ann\u00e9es 70. <em>Le Flingueur<\/em>, \u00e9crit par Lewis John Carlino (sc\u00e9nariste de <em>L\u2019Op\u00e9ration diabolique<\/em> de John Frankenheimer, autre film d\u00e9mythificateur) enterre le code d\u2019honneur propre aux gangsters et autres hors-la-loi pour saluer la naissance d\u2019un monde cynique, sans valeurs ni morale, d\u00e9shumanis\u00e9, litt\u00e9ralement fasciste. Sans porter lui m\u00eame de jugement moral ou condamner cet \u00e9tat de fait, ce qui transforme <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> en film ambigu, sans doute sous l\u2019impulsion de Winner, cin\u00e9aste fascin\u00e9 par la violence, la cruaut\u00e9 et les relations sadomasochistes. Le mot \u00ab\u00a0mechanic\u00a0\u00bb se traduit par \u00ab\u00a0m\u00e9canicien\u00a0\u00bb, mais d\u00e9signe dans le film un ex\u00e9cuteur, un sp\u00e9cialiste de la mort. Bronson interpr\u00e8te Bishop, un tueur \u00e0 gage qui maquille ses contrats en accidents et ne laisse aucune trace de son intervention. \u00ab\u00a0Aussi m\u00e9thodique qu\u2019une machine, aussi pr\u00e9cis qu\u2019un ordinateur\u00a0\u00bb, Bishop est une \u00ab\u00a0m\u00e9canique\u00a0\u00bb, une machine sans affects ni sentiments qui accomplit \u00e0 la perfection son m\u00e9tier, avec l\u2019argent comme seule motivation. Comme l\u2019Indien Chato dans <em>Les Collines de la terreur<\/em> (le premier film, lui aussi remarquable de l\u2019association entre Bronson et Winner), Bishop est pass\u00e9 ma\u00eetre dans l\u2019art de tuer et il accomplit chaque contrat avec un perfectionnisme, une imagination et une froideur imparables qui confinent au g\u00e9nie. Un g\u00e9nie mal\u00e9fique cela va sans dire. Bronson pr\u00eate son physique d&rsquo;animal \u00e0 sang froid et son visage imp\u00e9n\u00e9trable \u00e0 Bishop. <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> est aussi le r\u00e9cit d\u2019un d\u00e9r\u00e8glement. Comme toutes les machines Bishop n\u2019est pas \u00e0 l\u2019abri d\u2019une panne. Il est victime de malaises et comprend que sa fin est proche. C\u2019est la peur de la maladie qui va le pousser \u00e0 choisir et \u00e0 former un jeune disciple, encore plus amoral et cynique que lui (Jan Michael Vincent). Cette rencontre va pr\u00e9cipiter sa chute, d\u2019une mani\u00e8re aussi impr\u00e9visible que logique. Le sc\u00e9nario pr\u00e9sentait clairement Bishop comme un homosexuel. Il fallut att\u00e9nuer cette caract\u00e9risation pour que Bronson accepte le r\u00f4le. Mais le sous-texte \u00e9rotique demeure de mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9gnante dans le film. La relation entre les deux hommes, qui repr\u00e9sentent le m\u00eame individu \u00e0 des \u00e2ges diff\u00e9rents de sa vie, ne laisse gu\u00e8re planer de doutes. Grande fiction comportementaliste (les quinze premi\u00e8res minutes, qui montrent comment Bishop ex\u00e9cute un contrat, sont d\u00e9nu\u00e9es du moindre dialogue) dans laquelle Winner peut se livrer \u00e0 des exp\u00e9rimentations formelles qui renforcent la froideur du personnage principal, <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> est aussi une fable sur la trahison et la transmission impossible. La r\u00e9cente actualit\u00e9 Jean-Pierre Melville permet de v\u00e9rifier la g\u00e9n\u00e9alogie entre <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> et l&rsquo;univers des films noirs du cin\u00e9aste fran\u00e7ais, en particulier <em>Le Samoura\u00ef <\/em>et son f\u00e9tichisme glac\u00e9.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21449\" style=\"width: 3210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21449\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-6.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bronson dans Le Flingueur de Michael Winner\" width=\"3200\" height=\"2550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-6.jpg 3200w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-6-351x280.jpg 351w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-6-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-6-964x768.jpg 964w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-6-580x462.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3200px) 100vw, 3200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Bronson dans <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> de Michael Winner<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21450\" style=\"width: 3041px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21450\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-8.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bronson et Jan Michael Vincent dans Le Flingueur de Michael Winner\" width=\"3031\" height=\"2433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-8.jpg 3031w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-8-349x280.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-8-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-8-957x768.jpg 957w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-8-580x466.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3031px) 100vw, 3031px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Bronson et Jan Michael Vincent dans <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> de Michael Winner<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21451\" style=\"width: 2407px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21451\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-12.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bronson dans Le Flingueur de Michael Winner\" width=\"2397\" height=\"2992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-12.jpg 2397w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-12-224x280.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-12-768x959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-12-615x768.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingueur-photo-12-580x724.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2397px) 100vw, 2397px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Bronson dans <em>Le Flingueur<\/em> de Michael Winner<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingeur-sceno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingeur-sceno.jpg 1632w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingeur-sceno-346x280.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingeur-sceno-768x622.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingeur-sceno-949x768.jpg 949w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/le-flingeur-sceno-580x469.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Side sort le 15 novembre une \u00e9dition DVD+Blu-ray+livret du Flingueur (The Mechanic, 1972) de Michael Winner avec Charles Bronson\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":21448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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