{"id":5076,"date":"2012-01-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olivierpere.wordpress.com\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2017-06-03T08:57:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T07:57:25","slug":"the-strawberry-blonde-de-raoul-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2012\/01\/14\/the-strawberry-blonde-de-raoul-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strawberry Blonde de Raoul Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Il arrive qu\u2019un film, peu vu, peut-\u00eatre mineur dans la carri\u00e8re d\u2019un grand cin\u00e9aste compar\u00e9 \u00e0 des \u0153uvres monumentales (pour Walsh, ses westerns et ses films d\u2019aventures), laisse appara\u00eetre avec plus d\u2019\u00e9vidence la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 intime sur son auteur. Raoul Walsh, plus proche de Ford que de Hawks, \u00e9tait un grand sentimental, mais surtout sa truculence et sa vigueur d\u2019homme et d\u2019artiste dissimulaient mal une personnalit\u00e9 complexe et tourment\u00e9e. Par son sujet, ses th\u00e8mes et sa construction, <em>The Strawberry Blonde<\/em> (1941) d\u00e9passe largement le registre de la com\u00e9die l\u00e9g\u00e8re. Et quant \u00e0 la dimension sentimentale du film, elle renvoie davantage \u00e0 celle d\u2019une fameuse \u00e9ducation qu\u2019au feuilleton \u00e0 l\u2019eau de rose. <em>The Strawberry Blonde<\/em> est admirablement organis\u00e9 autour d\u2019un long et unique retour en arri\u00e8re. Un dentiste d\u2019origine populaire (James Cagney) a du mal \u00e0 trouver sa client\u00e8le, car il sort fra\u00eechement de prison. C\u2019est d\u2019ailleurs sous les verrous qu\u2019il a appris son m\u00e9tier. Avec son ami, un \u00e9migr\u00e9 grec, il se rem\u00e9more avec aigreur l\u2019insouciance pass\u00e9e et la jeune femme rousse qui le fit r\u00eaver (la \u00ab\u00a0Strawberry Blonde\u00a0\u00bb du titre, interpr\u00e9t\u00e9e par Rita Hayworth, dans son premier r\u00f4le important). Une rengaine jou\u00e9e dans la rue ravive le souvenir de l\u2019amoureux transi, qui \u00e9pousa par d\u00e9pit une femme heureusement formidable (Olivia de Havilland). La belle rouquine pr\u00e9f\u00e9ra en effet se marier avec un faux ami de Cagney, qui fera fortune gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 des malversations et qui conduira son associ\u00e9 (le m\u00eame Cagney, incarnation de l\u2019Am\u00e9ricain honn\u00eate mais na\u00eff) en prison en lui faisant endosser la responsabilit\u00e9 d\u2019un accident de chantier. Pas mal de gravit\u00e9, donc, pour une simple com\u00e9die chantante, qui r\u00e9serve pourtant de magnifiques bouff\u00e9es de burlesque (les fleurs du chapeau de Olivia de Havilland mang\u00e9es par un cheval, James Cagney atterrissant dans une poubelle, le d\u00eener aux chandelles avec les spaghettis r\u00e9calcitrantes). Mais surtout, derri\u00e8re l\u2019optimisme fondamental de l\u2019\u0153uvre pointe d\u00e9j\u00e0 (nous sommes en 1941) l\u2019amertume. Cette description alerte et pittoresque du petit peuple, dans le New York du d\u00e9but du si\u00e8cle, est une critique d\u00e9senchant\u00e9e du r\u00eave am\u00e9ricain, de la libre entreprise et du capitalisme sauvage (que l\u2019on retrouvera sept ans plus tard dans <em>La Rivi\u00e8re d\u2019argent<\/em>.) C\u2019est aussi le tr\u00e8s \u00e9mouvant bilan de la vie d\u2019un Am\u00e9ricain ordinaire, au cours de laquelle Walsh malm\u00e8ne les clich\u00e9s du machisme et de l\u2019\u00e9nergie, en insufflant \u00e0 ce film plein de bonne humeur beaucoup de doute et de tremblement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20786\" style=\"width: 1272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20786\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03.jpg\" alt=\"annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03\" width=\"1262\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03.jpg 1262w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03-221x280.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03-606x768.jpg 606w, https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/files\/annex-cagney-james-strawberry-blonde-the_03-580x735.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1262px) 100vw, 1262px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia de Havilland et James Cagney dans <em>The Strawberry Blonde<\/em> de Raoul Walsh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il arrive qu\u2019un film, peu vu, peut-\u00eatre mineur dans la carri\u00e8re d\u2019un grand cin\u00e9aste compar\u00e9 \u00e0 des \u0153uvres monumentales (pour\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":20785,"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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