In cinema, the end of 2023 is marked in particular by the release of the highly anticipated latest film by Martin Scorsese, worn by Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. But 2023 has already reserved its share of big-budget feature films. French productions had opened the ball with Asterix and Obelix: the Middle Empire or The Three Musketeers (and its unexpected novelties), before Guardians of the Galaxy left in style with a moving third part. In recent weeks, a film has been on everyone’s lips: Barbie. With already more than 1.3 billion dollars collected at the global box office, Greta Gerwig’s film has already largely fulfilled its contract. Just like Oppenheimer, the latest vintage from Christopher Nolan. This year 2023 does not however succeed for everyone.
How much did the movie Babylon make at the global box office?
Like Steven Spielberg with his autobiographical film The Fabelmans, the very fashionable Damien Chazelle also broke his teeth in dark rooms, particularly in the United States, with Babylon. Highly anticipated in particular for its star cast led by Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, the film ends its race slightly above the 15.3 million greenbacks collected in the land of Uncle Sam, and around 63 million worldwide. Very far from the enormous success of the director with La La Land for example (more than 470 million dollars), and especially very insufficient to amortize a budget estimated at around 80 million dollars. In France, the reception is more positive since it attracts more than 1.5 million curious people.
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After the success of his film La La Land, Damien Chazelle refuses nothing
Despite this flop in the United States, Damien Chazelle has nothing to be ashamed of. If you haven’t seen it yet, now is the time. Babylon is set in 1920s-1930s Los Angeles. In the midst of the transition from silent to talking, Manny Torres (Diego Calva), a young Mexican immigrant, arrives in Hollywood with the ambition of making a name for himself on film sets. Around him gravitate two characters at completely different stages of their careers: Jack Conrad (Brad Pitt), actor in his fifties at the height of his glory, and Nellie LaRoy (Margot Robbie), star in the making. Once again, the Oscar-winning director proves his talent as a director. He refuses nothing so that the form marries the content. The first scene or the very long orgy sequence, as impressive technically as visually, announces the color. Because if it shows the grandeur and splendor of Hollywood at the time (especially during filming moments), it illustrates its decadence just as much.
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Diego Calva debuts against Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt in Babylon
In front of the camera, Damien Chazelle could hardly have found better than Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. These two roles suit them like a glove. The first shines with nuance and fragility in the guise of a rising star as talented as he is self-destructive. The second splashes the lens with his charisma, his phlegm, and his derision. As for Diego Calva, disarmingly natural, he fits perfectly into the workings of this star film. The relatively jerky editing and the length of the film (more than three hours) will perhaps lose some of it. The incorrigible romantics will prefer to return to see the Hollywood of La La Land. In the end, these two films, however opposed, share the same objective for the Franco-American director: to declare his love for the seventh art.
2023-09-05 08:30:00
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