{"id":26208,"date":"2020-10-30T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T12:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=26208"},"modified":"2020-11-22T13:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T12:55:51","slug":"the-game-de-david-fincher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2020\/10\/30\/the-game-de-david-fincher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game de David Fincher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Un banquier solitaire et misanthrope, aussi riche que d\u00e9sagr\u00e9able (Michael Douglas), re\u00e7oit de son fr\u00e8re cadet qu\u2019il ne voit pratiquement jamais (Sean Penn) un \u00e9trange cadeau d\u2019anniversaire : l\u2019invitation \u00e0 un jeu entour\u00e9 de myst\u00e8re et dont les r\u00e8gles changent \u00e0 chaque participant. Pouss\u00e9 par la curiosit\u00e9, le triste millionnaire se retrouve bient\u00f4t entra\u00een\u00e9 dans une spirale d\u2019\u00e9v\u00e9nements inqui\u00e9tants qui vont en quelques mois d\u00e9truire un univers patiemment \u00e9rig\u00e9, mais aussi lui prodiguer une th\u00e9rapie de choc. Son quarante-huiti\u00e8me anniversaire est aussi celui de la mort de son p\u00e8re, qui s\u2019est suicid\u00e9 sous ses yeux lorsqu\u2019il avait le m\u00eame \u00e2ge. Fincher a r\u00e9alis\u00e9 <em>The Game<\/em> en 1997, deux ans apr\u00e8s le triomphe mondial de son deuxi\u00e8me long m\u00e9trage, <em>Seven<\/em>. Ce nouveau film explicite la dimension ludique de <em>Seven<\/em>, o\u00f9 un tueur en s\u00e9rie imposaient \u00e0 un duo de d\u00e9tectives les r\u00e8gles d\u2019un jeu macabre et cruel. Le sc\u00e9nario de <em>The Game<\/em> permet \u00e0 Fincher de prolonger son attirance pour les r\u00e9cits pi\u00e9g\u00e9s et les retournements de situations impr\u00e9visibles, m\u00eame si, de l\u2019avis g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, le \u00ab\u00a0twist\u00a0\u00bb final et la conclusion du film sont aussi ses points faibles, et ne parvinrent jamais \u00e0 satisfaire totalement le r\u00e9alisateur, malgr\u00e9 de nombreuses r\u00e9\u00e9critures. Il n\u2019emp\u00eache que <em>The Game<\/em>, l\u2019un des films les plus mal aim\u00e9s dans la carri\u00e8re de Fincher, confirme ses immenses ambitions et se r\u00e9v\u00e8le passionnant \u00e0 revoir. Le cin\u00e9aste et son directeur de la photographie Harris Savides plongent le spectateur dans un univers fun\u00e8bre et angoissant qui parvient \u00e0 retranscrire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cran l\u2019int\u00e9riorit\u00e9 glac\u00e9e de son personnage principal. Les images et la direction artistique sont splendides, au diapason de la virtuosit\u00e9 de la mise en sc\u00e8ne de Fincher. The Game semble dresser un constat r\u00e9capitulatif des nombreuses fictions parano\u00efaques qui constitu\u00e8rent l\u2019important corpus du \u00ab\u00a0cin\u00e9ma du complot\u00a0\u00bb apparu aux \u00c9tats-Unis dans les ann\u00e9es 60 et 70. Fincher \u00e9maille son long m\u00e9trage de citations directes qui renvoient aux films de John Frankenheimer (<em>Seconds<\/em>), Alan J. Pakula (<em>The Paralax View<\/em>), Stanley Kubrick (<em>Orange m\u00e9canique<\/em>) et m\u00eame David Cronenberg (<em>Videodrome<\/em>) avec le pr\u00e9sentateur du journal t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9 qui s\u2019adresse directement \u00e0 Michael Douglas assis dans son salon. Sans oublier les s\u00e9ries t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9es <em>La Quatri\u00e8me Dimension<\/em> et <em>Mission : impossible<\/em>. En situant l\u2019action du film \u00e0 San Francisco, Fincher souligne la filiation avec l\u2019\u0153uvre d\u2019Alfred Hitchcock, puisque <em>The Game<\/em> illustre aussi le th\u00e8me de la machination (<em>Vertigo<\/em>), du faux coupable et du fugitif pris dans les mailles d\u2019un plan secret de large envergure qui le d\u00e9passe (<em>La Mort aux trousses<\/em>).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dans les compl\u00e9ments, le journaliste Philippe Guedj propose un \u00e9clairage int\u00e9ressant sur le film en pointant les similitudes entre les dispositifs sophistiqu\u00e9es mis en place par Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) et la pr\u00e9paration et le tournage d\u2019une production hollywoodienne. Le savoir-faire d\u2019une armada de professionnels, mais aussi le recours aux technologies de pointe, associ\u00e9s au d\u00e9ploiement d\u2019un budget pharamineux, auquel nous assistons dans <em>The Game<\/em>, permettent d\u2019\u00e9voquer une m\u00e9taphore du syst\u00e8me des studios que Fincher connait bien, et contre lequel il avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 men\u00e9 (et perdu) plusieurs batailles \u2013 l\u2019exp\u00e9rience malheureuse d\u2019<em>Alien 3<\/em>, son premier film &#8211; au moment de <em>The Game<\/em>. Ainsi, davantage que l\u2019apologie de la r\u00e9demption par l\u2019argent r\u00e9serv\u00e9e \u00e0 une \u00e9lite bouffie de privil\u00e8ges, The Game appara\u00eet comme une critique masqu\u00e9e des m\u00e9thodes totalitaires d\u2019une industrie du spectacle et du divertissement montr\u00e9e sous un aspect inhumain, et annonce la mise en pi\u00e8ce encore plus radicale de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de consommation et du monde capitaliste dans <em>Fight Club<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c9dit\u00e9 par L\u2019Atelier d\u2019images, le Blu-ray Collector de <em>The Game<\/em> propose pour la premi\u00e8re fois en France la restauration 2K r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par The Criterion Collection \u00e0 partir du n\u00e9gatif original, supervis\u00e9e et approuv\u00e9e par David Fincher et Harris Savides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/the_game_j.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1607\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un banquier solitaire et misanthrope, aussi riche que d\u00e9sagr\u00e9able (Michael Douglas), re\u00e7oit de son fr\u00e8re cadet qu\u2019il ne voit pratiquement\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"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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