{"id":2212,"date":"2011-09-21T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivierpere.wordpress.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2014-06-22T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T09:36:57","slug":"the-et-sympathie-de-vincente-minnelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2011\/09\/21\/the-et-sympathie-de-vincente-minnelli\/","title":{"rendered":"Th\u00e9 et Sympathie de Vincente Minnelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: 10pt\">Red\u00e9couvert cet \u00e9t\u00e9 lors de la r\u00e9trospective Minnelli du 64<sup>\u00e8me<\/sup> Festival del film Locarno, <em>Th\u00e9 et Sympathie<\/em> ressort aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0 Paris en copie neuve (et bient\u00f4t dans les salles de province) gr\u00e2ce au distributeur Action\/Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Temple, apr\u00e8s de longues ann\u00e9es d\u2019invisibilit\u00e9. Tant mieux, car il compte parmi les plus beaux films du cin\u00e9aste am\u00e9ricain, les plus intimes et secrets aussi. R\u00e9alis\u00e9 en 1956, <em>Th\u00e9 et Sympathie<\/em> repr\u00e9sente sans doute ce que l\u2019on pouvait proposer de plus audacieux \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque &#8211; \u00a0et surtout \u00e0 Hollywood &#8211;\u00a0 sur un sujet tabou, l\u2019homosexualit\u00e9. Le film commence et se termine dix ans apr\u00e8s les faits racont\u00e9s, le temps d\u2019un long flash back. C\u2019est l\u2019histoire d\u2019un jeune \u00e9tudiant, gar\u00e7on \u00ab\u00a0sensible\u00a0\u00bb et solitaire, amateur de couture, po\u00e9sie et de musique classique, qui se heurte \u00e0 l\u2019hostilit\u00e9 de ses camarades plus virils. Mais le film est surtout le souvenir d\u2019un amour impossible entre ce jeune homme et une femme mal mari\u00e9e, plus \u00e2g\u00e9e que lui, dont le premier \u00e9poux \u00e9tait lui aussi un gar\u00e7on doux mort au combat en voulant prouver sa bravoure aux autres soldats. Minnelli explore les th\u00e8mes des probl\u00e9matiques rapports p\u00e8re fils, des passions interdites et du refus \u2013 ou de l\u2019incapacit\u00e9 &#8211; \u00e0 se plier aux r\u00e8gles d\u2019une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9touffante, au c\u0153ur de toute son \u0153uvre. La douleur de vivre frappe les personnages de Minnelli, fragiles et d\u00e9s\u00e9quilibr\u00e9s, emp\u00each\u00e9s dans leurs r\u00eaves et leurs d\u00e9sirs, insuffisamment arm\u00e9s pour affronter la violence de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine, atroce et cruelle sous le vernis des conventions et la joliesse du d\u00e9cor. L\u2019ali\u00e9nation d\u00e9bouche souvent sur la folie, \u00e9voqu\u00e9e dans deux grands films dramatiques r\u00e9alis\u00e9s juste avant <em>Th\u00e9 et Sympathie<\/em>, <em>La Toile d\u2019araign\u00e9e<\/em> (d\u00e9j\u00e0 avec John Kerr, qui rempla\u00e7ait James Dean) et <em>La Vie passionn\u00e9e de Vincent Van Gogh. Th\u00e9 et Sympathie <\/em>comporte une des plus belles sc\u00e8nes de l\u2019\u0153uvre minnellienne, lorsque la femme mari\u00e9e se donne enfin \u00e0 son jeune amant, dans un sous-bois, au cr\u00e9puscule, pour la premi\u00e8re et la derni\u00e8re fois. Sc\u00e8ne bouleversante car d\u2019une grande th\u00e9\u00e2tralit\u00e9, dans un d\u00e9cor de studio et baignant dans une lumi\u00e8re totalement picturale\u00a0: quintessence du cin\u00e9ma de Minnelli o\u00f9 la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 et l\u2019\u00e9motion surgissent toujours par le d\u00e9tour de l\u2019artifice. Et difficile de faire l\u2019\u00e9loge de <em>Th\u00e9 et Sympathie<\/em> sans admirer la gr\u00e2ce et le talent de Deborah Kerr, au sommet de sa carri\u00e8re puisqu\u2019elle allait tourner dans deux autres chefs-d\u2019\u0153uvre apr\u00e8s le film de Minnelli, <em>Elle et Lui<\/em> de Leo McCarey (1957) et <em>Bonjour tristesse<\/em> d\u2019Otto Preminger (1958).<br \/>\nSur TCM tout le mois de septembre on pourra voir l&rsquo;int\u00e9gralit\u00e9 (ou presque) des films de Deborah Kerr. En plus des titres d\u00e9j\u00e0 cit\u00e9s, ne pas manquer <em>Les parachutistes arrivent<\/em> de John Frankenheimer&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2214\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/olivierpere.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/21\/the-et-sympathie-de-vincente-minnelli\/affiche-de-the-et-sympathie\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2214\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2214\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2214\" title=\"Affiche de Th\u00e9 et Sympathie de Vincente Minnelli (1956)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/09\/affiche-de-thc3a9-et-sympathie.jpg\" alt=\"Affiche de Th\u00e9 et Sympathie \" width=\"640\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/09\/affiche-de-thc3a9-et-sympathie.jpg 1240w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/09\/affiche-de-thc3a9-et-sympathie-197x280.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/09\/affiche-de-thc3a9-et-sympathie-580x820.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Affiche de Th\u00e9 et Sympathie (1956)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red\u00e9couvert cet \u00e9t\u00e9 lors de la r\u00e9trospective Minnelli du 64\u00e8me Festival del film Locarno, Th\u00e9 et Sympathie ressort aujourd\u2019hui \u00e0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":13141,"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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