{"id":3874,"date":"2011-12-01T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T07:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivierpere.wordpress.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2015-07-13T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T20:18:24","slug":"sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-de-john-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2011\/12\/01\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-de-john-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Sur la piste des Mohawks de John Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sur la piste des Mohawks<\/em> (<em>Drums Along the Mohawk<\/em>, 1939) est le premier film de John Ford tourn\u00e9 en Technicolor. Visuellement splendide, c\u2019est un film sur l\u2019\u00e9dification des \u00c9tats-Unis, et donc une \u0153uvre essentielle dans sa filmographie, presque une sc\u00e8ne primitive. Nous sommes en 1776. Un jeune homme a \u00e9pous\u00e9 une fille de bonne famille de la c\u00f4te Est et l\u2019emm\u00e8ne d\u00e8s la fin de la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie dans sa ferme de la vall\u00e9e des Mohawks, dans l\u2019Ouest sauvage. Pour la citadine, cette nouvelle vie est d\u00e9courageante et terrifiante, car les pionniers sont r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement victimes de raids ourdis par des Indiens alli\u00e9s aux ennemis Anglais. Le g\u00e9nie de Ford, c\u2019est de filmer \u00e0 la fois l\u2019anecdote et l\u2019universel, la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 et la l\u00e9gende. On devine la part d\u2019id\u00e9alisation dans ces tableaux d\u2019une grande beaut\u00e9 plastique montrant les travaux saisonniers, les moments de liesse ou les \u00e9v\u00e9nements tragiques, mais Ford ne sombre jamais dans l\u2019image d\u2019Epinal. Il n\u2019occulte pas la rudesse et la violence de la vie des pionniers, et surtout il accorde une confiance limit\u00e9e dans les vertus de l\u2019enluminure. Une des plus belles et fameuses sc\u00e8nes du film, abondamment comment\u00e9e, montre Henry Fonda au retour d\u2019une sanglante bataille contre les Anglais. Aucune image n\u2019est montr\u00e9e du conflit, pris dans une ellipse entre le d\u00e9part joyeux et le retour des survivants. C\u2019est le monologue hallucin\u00e9 d\u2019Henry Fonda, film\u00e9 en un long plan seulement interrompu par l\u2019agonie d\u2019un bless\u00e9 dans la pi\u00e8ce voisine, qui raconte \u00e0 sa femme les d\u00e9sastres de la guerre. Comme Sal Mineo \u00e9voquant dans la p\u00e9nombre les horreurs des camps de concentration dans <em>Exodus<\/em> d\u2019Otto Preminger (1960), cette sc\u00e8ne bouleversante (Fonda improvise-t-il\u00a0? Combien y eut-il de prises?), b\u00e2tie sur la puissance \u00e9vocatrice de la parole est plus impressionnante que la plus spectaculaire reconstitution guerri\u00e8re. Dans <em>Sur la piste des Mohawks<\/em>, on retrouve la petite communaut\u00e9 fordienne, cette troupe d\u2019acteurs pittoresques qui campent immuablement les seconds r\u00f4les des films du cin\u00e9aste (Francis Ford, Ward Bond, John Carradine\u2026), entourant le couple vedette form\u00e9 par Fonda et Colbert. Le film retrace un moment de l\u2019Histoire des \u00c9tats-Unis jusqu\u2019\u00e0 la naissance de la banni\u00e8re \u00e9toil\u00e9e, mais aussi l\u2019histoire de la naissance d\u2019un couple, et fait le va-et-vient entre les trag\u00e9dies collectives (guerres indiennes, fermes br\u00fbl\u00e9es) et priv\u00e9es (la perte d\u2019un enfant), intimement li\u00e9es. Henry Fonda incarne comme \u00e0 son habitude une forme d\u2019aristocratie populaire, une \u00e9l\u00e9gance terrienne, face \u00e0 la pugnacit\u00e9 charmante de Claudette Colbert, une des nombreuses femmes combattantes et maternelles du cin\u00e9ma de John Ford.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3878\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/olivierpere.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/01\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-de-john-ford\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3878\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3878\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3878\" title=\"Sur la piste des Mohawks de John Ford (1939)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Sur la piste des Mohawks de John Ford (1939)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks2-373x280.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks2-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks2-580x434.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry Fonda et Claudette Colbert dans <em>Sur la piste des Mohawks<\/em> (1939)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3877\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/olivierpere.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/01\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-de-john-ford\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3877\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3877\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3877\" title=\"Sur la piste des Mohawks de John Ford (1939)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Sur la piste des Mohawks de John Ford (1939)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-497x280.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/2011\/12\/sur-la-piste-des-mohawks-580x326.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudette Colbert dans <em>Sur la piste des Mohawks<\/em> (1939)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sur la piste des Mohawks (Drums Along the Mohawk, 1939) est le premier film de John Ford tourn\u00e9 en Technicolor.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":3878,"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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