{"id":27016,"date":"2022-04-01T18:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=27016"},"modified":"2022-05-09T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:50:19","slug":"caltiki-le-monstre-immortel-de-riccardo-freda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2022\/04\/01\/caltiki-le-monstre-immortel-de-riccardo-freda\/","title":{"rendered":"Caltiki, le monstre immortel de Riccardo Freda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comme <em>Les Vampires<\/em> (<em>I vampiri<\/em>, 1957), <em>Caltiki, le monstre immortel<\/em> (<em>Caltiki, il mostro immortale<\/em>, 1959) est sign\u00e9 Robert Hampton, pseudonyme de Riccardo Freda qui avait d\u00e9cid\u00e9 d\u2019angliciser son nom dans l\u2019espoir de berner une part du public populaire italien, r\u00e9fractaire \u00e0 la production nationale quand elle s\u2019\u00e9cartait de la com\u00e9die ou du m\u00e9lodrame. Peine perdue. Le film n\u2019aura pas le succ\u00e8s escompt\u00e9 dans les salles, s\u00e9v\u00e8rement jug\u00e9 par ses contemporains. Et pourtant, <em>Caltiki, le monstre immortel<\/em> se r\u00e9v\u00e8le un excellent m\u00e9lange d\u2019aventures exotiques (la premi\u00e8re partie) et de science-fiction (la suite du m\u00e9trage). Il s\u2019agit m\u00eame d\u2019une des rares r\u00e9ussites exemplaires dans le domaine de la SF transalpine. Freda s\u2019inspire sans ambages de la s\u00e9rie britannique des <em>Quatermass, <\/em>avec une histoire de mutation et de contamination catastrophiques, travers\u00e9e par d\u2019\u00e9tonnantes images gore qui annoncent l\u2019horreur g\u00e9n\u00e9tique moderne, o\u00f9 les transformations organiques et la souffrance de la chair occupent une place primordiale. La cruaut\u00e9 et le sadisme du film, dont les personnages tourment\u00e9s sont agit\u00e9s par des crises de folie et de violence, comptent parmi les premi\u00e8res manifestations du cin\u00e9ma d\u2019horreur italien, plus excessif que ses mod\u00e8les anglo-saxons. M\u00e9content des moyens qui lui \u00e9taient allou\u00e9s et furieux contre ses commanditaires \u2013 une attitude courante chez lui, <\/strong><strong>Riccardo Freda d\u00e9serta une fois de plus le plateau de son film d\u00e8s les premiers jours du tournage et fut remplac\u00e9 par Mario Bava, au d\u00e9part directeur de la photographie et responsable de trucages assez artisanaux. Avec la seule ma\u00eetrise de l\u2019ombre et de la lumi\u00e8re dans un studio aux proportions modestes, et des bouts de d\u00e9cor en carton-p\u00e2te, Bava parvient \u00e0 cr\u00e9er de toutes pi\u00e8ces un monde po\u00e9tique digne de certains films d\u2019Ulmer. Davantage que <em>Les Vampires<\/em>, qui portaient la marque de Freda, Bava peut \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme le v\u00e9ritable r\u00e9alisateur de <em>Caltiki<\/em>\u2026 <\/strong><strong>Il deviendra en passant officiellement \u00e0 la mise en sc\u00e8ne en 1960 avec <em>Le Masque du d\u00e9mon<\/em> le seul grand rival de Freda dans le registre de l\u2019\u00e9pouvante en Italie. <\/strong><strong>Le monstre g\u00e9ant et visqueux, sorte de blob du pauvre, \u00e9tait compos\u00e9 de v\u00e9ritables entrailles animales, et r\u00e9pandait selon la l\u00e9gende une odeur pestilentielle sur le plateau. Ni ringard ni rasoir, <\/strong><strong><em>Caltiki, le monstre immortel<\/em><\/strong><strong> est un petit classique du cin\u00e9ma bis transalpin, auquel cette \u00e9dition blu-ray d\u2019excellente qualit\u00e9 rend l\u2019hommage qu\u2019il m\u00e9rite.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Caltiki, le monstre immortel <\/em><\/strong><strong>est disponible dans un combo collector Blu-ray et DVD, accompagn\u00e9 d\u2019un livret sur le film, \u00e9dit\u00e9 par Artus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/81z60xl0jbl-_ac_sl1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/81z60xl0jbl-_ac_sl1500_.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/81z60xl0jbl-_ac_sl1500_-565x280.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/81z60xl0jbl-_ac_sl1500_-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/81z60xl0jbl-_ac_sl1500_-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/81z60xl0jbl-_ac_sl1500_-580x287.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comme Les Vampires (I vampiri, 1957), Caltiki, le monstre immortel (Caltiki, il mostro immortale, 1959) est sign\u00e9 Robert Hampton, pseudonyme\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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