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« Advenir » ou les secrets enfouis du cinéma de M. Night Shyamalan

De « the village » à « the visit » : le cinéma de shyamalan.

Après deux films plus commerciaux et moins habités, The Visit marque le retour attendu de M. Night Shyamalan vers un cinéma plus personnel. Bien qu'inégal, ce film peuplé de bizarreries et d'assemblages de tons déroutants a le mérite de remettre en avant ce qui faisait la singularité de son cinéma. Il permet en effet de retrouver l'inventivité qui caractérisait sa période dorée (qui va du Sixième sens jusqu'à Phénomènes ). The Visit raconte l'histoire de Tyler et de sa sœur Becca qui sont envoyés chez leurs grands-parents pendant une semaine. Le problème, c'est qu'ils ne les connaissent pas et, une fois arrivés sur place, ils se rendent compte qu'ils ont une attitude très étrange... (Attention spoiler) Il s'agit en fait d'imposteurs qui ont tué leurs véritables grands-parents. On pourrait voir dans The Visit une caricature de ce qui faisait la force des précédents films ; et loin de nous l'idée de tomber dans une politique des auteurs primaire (un petit film de Shy vaut mieux que dix navets), mais à partir de plusieurs lignes narratives explorées par le film, il est possible de se rapprocher au plus près des singularités qui ont toujours animé le cinéma de Shyamalan et que celui-ci continue à explorer.

Peu de choses transparaissent généralement sur la manière de travailler du cinéaste. Lorsqu'il apparaît dans un making-off ou s'exprime dans des interviews, il donne souvent l'impression de s'intéresser uniquement à l' entertainment , renvoyant ainsi l'image d'un faiseur de produits mainstream avide de grands effets et obsédé par le storytelling. Il s'agit pourtant d'une façade. Car les films de Shyamalan suivent un mode de fonctionnement qui repose sur ce que nous appellerons des happenings (c'est aussi le titre d'un de ses films, et c'est pourquoi nous utiliserons ce mot). Ces happenings trouvent leur origine dans les secrets enfouis au plus profond des personnages, et aboutissent sur une sorte de (re)découverte de soi et du monde. Ils vont advenir en émergeant des liaisons qui existent entre les aspirations des personnages, les situations qu'ils ont vécues dans le passé et les situations auxquelles ils sont confrontés dans le présent. The Visit va nous servir de passerelle pour approcher quelques-uns de ces secrets enfouis. Nous pourrons ensuite faire des liens avec des modes de fonctionnement similaires à l’œuvre dans les précédents films.

L'originalité des films de Shyamalan est d'avoir pensé les questionnements intimes sur le mode de l’événement, c'est-à-dire comme quelque chose qui se module dans le monde en fonction des rencontres et de la circulation des affects. Chez lui, on ne devient soi-même qu'en advenant à travers le monde et le temps . Advenir à soi-même ou advenir ensemble survient à partir d’événements indicibles et contingents issus de différents niveaux de sens qui se nouent entre les personnages et ce qu'ils vivent. Tous les films de Shyamalan sont obsédés par une grande idée : celle de déterrer les secrets enfouis, les délier, leur donner une nouvelle existence (intime, collective, surnaturelle...) afin de mieux les affronter et les dépasser. C'est par là que l'individu et la collectivité adviennent . Il n'y a pas de mots plus précis que le verbe « advenir » — au sens où quelque chose se produit par surprise et par pure contingence — pour résumer et comprendre ce qu'a inventé le cinéma de Shyamalan : les personnages ne deviennent eux-mêmes qu'à la suite d'une rencontre fortuite avec un événement qu'ils ont toujours attendu sans jamais avoir pu l'identifier ou le voir venir.

Cette dynamique fonctionne d'au moins trois manières différentes. D'abord, sur un plan intime. Les secrets hantent le vécu d'un personnage qui doit les affronter pour parvenir à franchir un obstacle existentiel. Le second mode de fonctionnement du secret concerne un groupe, que ce soit la famille ou une communauté. C'est un secret collectif qui noue des liens parfois invisibles entre les êtres et peut dépasser leur existence. Une troisième manière de faire fonctionner le secret, enfin, que nous qualifierons de méta-diégétique, utilise cette fois la dimension fantastique ou horrifique des films (tous les aspects qui touchent au cinéma de "genre") pour configurer un secret omniscient , qui prend la forme d'un mystère ou d'une réflexion existentielle, voire métaphysique. Le sens y dépend moins des actions des personnages que du travail démiurgique de Shyamalan. Il n'y a néanmoins pas lieu de diviser ces trois types de secrets en entités bien distinctes : ils vont au contraire s'emboîter les uns aux autres et nouer entre eux des relations complexes.

Premier type de secret : le secret intime

Dans The Visit , Tyler raconte un mauvais souvenir devant la caméra envahissante de sa sœur. Lors d'un match de football américain, il n'est pas arrivé à plaquer au sol un adversaire fonçant sur lui pour marquer un essai. Il affirme avoir été paralysé par l'enjeu, laissant l'autre joueur lui passer sous le nez. Plus qu'un mauvais souvenir, cet épisode est une date clé dans le début de la fragile adolescence du garçon. C'est son secret enfoui. Il met en lumière le problème de la relation trouble avec son père et le manque de confiance que cela entraîne chez lui. Cette confession inattendue ouvre une faille chez Tyler, qui jusqu'alors faisait plutôt le clown. À la fin, lorsque le grand-père veut le tuer, il se retrouve dans la même situation et doit agir : cette fois-ci, il ne se posera plus de question en sautant sur le vieil homme de toutes ses forces. Comme dans d'autres films de Shyamalan, Tyler est ici confronté à la répétition d'un épisode du passé qu'il doit affronter dans le présent. Un peu trop psychologisant et lisible, ce cheminement manque de profondeur, mais le principe shyamalanien est là : en surmontant une situation imprévue, le personnage va advenir autrement au monde.

Nous retrouvons cette idée mieux agencée dans le happening mémorable de Signes, lorsque Merrill (Joaquim Phoenix), frère de Graham (Mel Gibson) et ancienne gloire du base-ball, se saisit de sa batte pour frapper l'extraterrestre qui a pénétré dans leur salon. C'est le même type de circulation : un événement du passé, en l’occurrence des mots énoncés par l'ex-femme de Graham avant de mourir, impose sa nécessité dans le présent et vient boucler un moment de la vie des personnages. Elle disait à Merrill de frapper fort. Au moment de l'accident, ces mots ne voulaient rien dire, ou presque. Face à la présence de l'alien, Graham s'en souvient et demande à Merrill d'obéir à son intuition. Le secret enfoui dans le cœur de Graham trouve alors un happening inattendu en voyant Merrill repousser l'envahisseur.

Il reste difficile de comprendre ce type de circulation, ce qu'elle appelle et ce qu'elle cherche à exprimer. Qu'on se place dans la position de Graham, qui avait renoncé à croire en Dieu après le décès accidentel de sa femme, ou de celle de Tyler, qui franchit un cap dans son développement personnel lorsqu'il parvient à "plaquer" le grand-père au sol, la justification narrative de ce genre de scènes ne peut pas se limiter à une seule interprétation. Est-ce l'épisode de la batte de base-ball qui redonne la foi à Graham, lui qui apparaît à la fin du film en tenue de prêtre ? Il ne s'agit pas réellement d'un miracle ou d'une sorte de prédestination écrite telle qu'on en trouve dans la Bible, mais d'un pur hasard, d'une contingence inexplicable que le cinéma de Shyamalan crée à cet instant précis et qui permet à un mystère de la vie, quelque chose d'indicible, de s'affirmer dans toute sa puissance. Nous pourrions dire que Shyamalan substitue à une lecture psychologisante de la rédemption un principe d'incertitude. Cette « vision du monde », qui refuse les clichés et les relations de cause à effet simplistes au détriment du hasard et de l'étrangeté, est inscrite dans chacun de ses films.

Nous pourrions encore citer l'exemple de cet étrange film qu'est Sixième Sens . Cole (Haley Joel Osment) a la faculté de voir les morts. Il traîne ce don comme un fardeau car cela l'empêche d'être un garçon comme les autres. C'est là son secret enfoui, ce qu'il va devoir affronter à un moment ou à un autre. Plutôt que de tomber dans les mauvais clichés du cinéma d'horreur, Shyamalan trace un étonnant cheminement au happening de ce secret : Cole va lentement apprivoiser ses peurs pour écouter ce que les fantômes ont à lui dire. Il va en effet se rendre compte que ceux-ci ont des messages à faire passer aux vivants. Cela donne lieu à deux scènes magnifiques où Cole révèle successivement la vérité cachée d'une relation sordide entre une jeune fille et son père puis rapporte l'affection que sa grand-mère n'a jamais su montrer de son vivant à sa mère. Chez Shyamalan, délier un secret s'accompagne souvent d'une peur à dompter. Ici, Cole advient autrement au monde en comprenant qu'il a un rôle à jouer auprès des autres.

Deuxième type de secret : le secret collectif

Les personnages de Shyamalan adviennent à eux-mêmes et au monde en même temps qu'ils trouvent un rôle à tenir dans la société, la communauté ou le cercle familial. Ainsi, le secret intime des personnages est indissociablement lié à un secret collectif, et inversement. Celui-ci se confond avec une sorte de fable qui englobe le récit sur plusieurs niveaux de sens. C'est dans La Jeune fille de l'eau qu'on trouve l'expression la plus conceptuelle de ce type de secret : le film est un lent dévoilement de la place qu'occupe chaque personnage de l'hôtel dans la mécanique du récit fantastique pour que l'histoire puisse fonctionner. Cleveland (Paul Giamatti), le concierge du bâtiment, a pour mission de résoudre l'énigme qui permettra à Story, la nymphe, de rentrer chez elle. Pour cela, il doit trouver parmi la multitude de personnages qui peuplent l'hôtel lesquels ont un rôle à jouer dans la fable. Le secret collectif de ce petit monde, celui qui se révèle aux personnages en train d'advenir dans le happening final, serait que n'importe qui peut participer à l'enchantement du monde, et qu'il reste encore mille et une façons de le réinventer. Shyamalan, dont c'est le film le plus optimiste, nous dit que tout est une question de volonté et d'orientation du regard.

Le meilleur exemple du passage d'un secret intime à un secret collectif se trouve dans Le Village . Une communauté décide de vivre à l'écart de la société en se retranchant dans une forêt pour y vivre comme au XIXème siècle. Les fondateurs du village ont tous le même secret intime enfoui, chacun le gardant précieusement dans un coffre scellé : ils ont tous perdu un proche et, pour faire leur deuil, ils ont décidé d'abandonner leur ancienne vie. Ce qui nous intéresse ici, c'est la façon dont le destin de la communauté repose sur un socle intime dont il est inséparable. Le célèbre twist final du film est vertigineux parce qu'il révèle au spectateur toute la violence du secret qui unit les personnages. Il est possible de donner de multiples interprétations à ce retournement et à la manière dont les fondateurs du village ont voulu en garder le secret - lecture politique, idéologique, psychanalytique, etc. La révélation du secret collectif redéfinit la place des personnages et l'avenir de la communauté.

Cette poétique du dévoilement du rôle de chacun dans le récit autant que dans le monde, est un secret caché que les personnages doivent faire advenir. Il n'est plus alors question uniquement d'eux-mêmes, mais des autres, du couple, de la famille, de la communauté. Dans Phénomène , Elliot (Mark Wahlberg) doit renoncer à sa part d'enfance pour conquérir définitivement Alma (Zooey Deschanel). Leur couple bat de l'aile, elle ne sait pas trop si elle l'aime, tandis que lui ne se pose pas la question. Elliot fait preuve d'une étonnante immaturité (quand il donne cours devant sa classe, par exemple, ou en s'attachant à des objets mielleux comme la bague en plastique reçue dans un paquet de céréales) qui ne plaît pas à Alma. L'apparition du phénomène va briser cette impasse affective en donnant au couple la possibilité de s'inventer autrement. Ce ressort est un classique du genre mais Phénomène , en tissant des secrets non avoués, donne de ce cliché une lecture particulière.

Dans Incassable cette fois, le happening final, où se trouve marquée l'opposition entre le Bien (David - Bruce Willis) et le Mal (Elijah - Samuel L. Jackson), débouche là aussi sur la révélation d'un secret collectif : en plus d'assigner à David et Elijah une place au cœur d'une fable métaphysique complexe, il définit la destinée des deux personnages par rapport à une histoire qui semble soudainement les dépasser et résonner étrangement avec l'actualité la plus brute : attentats, accidents prémédités,... Les secrets collectifs dans les films de Shyamalan parlent de l'état du monde et de nos croyances, quand ils ne traitent pas de la famille ou du couple. Ils opèrent en toile de fond, comme autant d'échos lointains, sans vraiment se matérialiser concrètement par un effet de scénario ou des lignes de dialogues. Ce sont des flux diffus qui circulent à différent degrés de la perception du film.

Troisième type de secret : le secret omniscient

Les secrets enfouis qui composent chaque film se répartissent sur plusieurs niveaux de la narration. Ils se situent tantôt à un niveau concernant le vécu et la place des personnages, comme nous venons de le voir, et parfois ils peuvent aussi apparaître à un niveau méta-diégétique plus complexe. C'est ici que les codes du cinéma de genre (horreur, fantastique,...) auxquels recourt souvent Shyamalan prennent toute leur importance. Cet aspect n'est pas du tout superficiel, comme un bel emballage qui servirait à faire vendre. Il permet au contraire de reconfigurer mentalement un ou plusieurs secrets enfouis pour produire des happenings d'une autre nature. Ce troisième type de secret est certainement le plus riche et le plus complexe à comprendre car il peut aussi se construire à partir d'un point de vue omniscient ouvrant sur des possibles métaphysiques.

Dans The Visit , nous apprenons que la mère des deux enfants a quitté le foyer familial à 19 ans à la suite d'une grave dispute. Ils ne se sont plus parlés depuis et n'ont jamais su se pardonner. Le film reste flou quant à l'ampleur réelle de la dispute. Ce sera d'ailleurs un des leitmotivs du documentaire que tourne Becca, qui questionne à deux reprises la fausse grand-mère pour savoir ce qu'il s'est réellement passé. Cet événement est un autre secret que Shyamalan fait circuler dans le film. À la différence que ce n'est pas la mère qui va affronter et délier le secret, mais la narration elle-même, ou plus précisément le narrateur omniscient qui va le reconfigurer d'une manière surprenante. En substituant aux vrais grands-parents des fous échappés d'un asile du coin, Shyamalan élève le problème de la rupture familiale à un niveau métadiégétique. Le suspense et l'étrangeté du comportement des deux malades mentaux font indirectement référence à ce qu'aurait pu être l'état, bien entendu moins pathologique, des véritables grands-parents qui n'ont jamais su se réconcilier avec leur fille. Les moments d'errance des deux fous, lorsqu'ils font des choses mécaniquement et de manière tout à fait absurdes, renvoie à l'existence des véritables grands-parents dont le film ne parle jamais. Étaient-ils eux aussi dépressifs ou mélancoliques, et donc pas si différents, par moment, des imposteurs ? C'est là un secret enfoui que The Visit appelle entre les images, par une voie étrangement métaphorique, et sans jamais le nommer. Le film parle indirectement du véritable deuil d'un couple qui n'a jamais pu retrouver sa fille.

Dans un autre registre, une fois sa supercherie révélée, The Village résonne avec un hors champs plus lisible : celui de la tendance que peut avoir une société à se refermer sur elle-même en s'inventant un imaginaire peuplé de leurres. Cette parabole pourrait être une charge contre la politique sécuritaire post-11 septembre. Quoi qu'il en soit – les interprétations sont nombreuses, la révélation vertigineuse de la manipulation est d'ordre omniscient. Shyamalan produit un puissant happening qui met en perspective l'ensemble du film. Les techniques pour créer du suspense et du fantastique sont mises à nu et renvoyées à leur propres ficelles. Elles finissent par parler d'elle-même sur l'état du monde et du vivre ensemble, mais aussi d'un point de vue beaucoup plus intime. Shyamalan ramène ici le fantastique à sa pure facticité pour mieux faire émerger le grand secret latent du film : le mensonge nécessaire dont a besoin une personne ou une communauté pour continuer à exister. À nouveau, l'ampleur de ce secret est immense. Il invite à démasquer les monstres empaillés qui jalonnent nos quotidiens. Ceux qui nous permettent de tenir bien que nous sachions qu'ils sont juste là pour nous éviter de regarder ce qu'il y a au-delà des limites. The Village contextualise cette topologie complexe en isolant un village factice au milieu d'un simulacre de forêt dont le dépassement des limites, et la révélation qui l'accompagne, signifierait l’effondrement du tout.

Ce qui frappe avec ce type de secret, ce n'est pas que la petite histoire rejoint la grande, comme dans tous ces films-miroirs où les actes des personnages témoignent des bouleversements de l'Histoire et de la société (l'adjectif "contemporain" est souvent utilisé à ce sujet) ; mais comment la grande histoire, celle d'une communauté restreinte ou de l'humanité entière, dépend des aléas de ce qui se joue dans la petite histoire. Les personnages ont une mainmise sur les événements sans le savoir, ils peuvent tout faire basculer sans s'en rendre compte. Shyamalan pense le devenir comme une suite d'incidents contingents. En ce sens, il s'impose comme un cinéaste fondamentalement anhistorique, qui refuse la relation simpliste entre l'individu et l'Histoire. Dans Incassable , David n'a jamais conscience que son existence détermine les agissements terroristes d'Elijah. Il met du temps à comprendre qu'il possède un pouvoir surhumain qui lui assigne une place sur un échiquier invisible pour lui autant que pour le spectateur. La fin omnisciente d' Incassable demeure énigmatique. Comment en comprendre la révélation ? Pourquoi nous la cacher jusqu'aux dernières minutes ? Que dit -elle sur le manichéisme latent de nos sociétés ?

Pour ne pas conclure

Il ne faudrait donc pas réduire le cinéma de Shyamalan à de la psychologie de bas étage. Tous ses films se structurent à partir de trois types de secrets qui sont moins des effets de scénarios psychologisants que des images dans le tapis, des motifs impalpables. C'est un cinéma de la boîte de Pandore, fondamentalement travaillé par un questionnement métaphysique sur le quotidien, et qui place en son centre le hasard et la contingence comme les lois de l'existence. Tous ses films, d'une manière ou d'une autre, vont faire advenir quelque chose à partir de leurs happenings . Néanmoins, ils se gardent bien de donner toutes les clés de lecture, conservant ainsi leur part de mystère et d'affects irréductibles. Ce sont ces moments-là, ces lignes de fuite qui se perdent dans l'infini, ces possibles éternellement ouverts, ces instants passagers indicibles semblant contenir toutes les forces et les raisons d'être des choses , qui rendent son cinéma si important et inépuisable.

Poursuivre l'étude de la filmographie de Shyamalan

  • Thibaut Grégoire, « Split : Le Pacte de Croyance de M. Night Shyamalan » dans Le Rayon Vert , 6 mai 2017.
  • Des Nouvelles du Front cinématographique, « Glass de M. Night Shyamalan : La Pharmacie du Super-héros » dans Le Rayon Vert , 22 janvier 2019.
  • Thibaut Grégoire, « Knock at the Cabin de M. Night Shyamalan : Unfunny Games », Le Rayon Vert, 7 février 2023.

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  • EauQuiChante Certains films sont plutôt moyens (ou déjà vu pourrait-on dire) dans l'ensemble mais parviennent à rehausser le niveau par une fin totalement inattendue...Ici c'est le cas: on a un film caméra sur épaule qui nous montre deux enfants qui vont rencontrer leurs grands parents dans une ferme isolée et petit à petit ce qui aurait dû être quelque chose de banal (d'ailleurs c'est l'intérêt de la caméra sur épaule: montrer la banalité du quotidien, tel que chacun peut la voir) se transforme en quelque chose de plus inquiétant. Alors qu'ils devraient être à l'abri chez leurs grands parents on se rend compte que ce n'est pas le cas. C'est de là que vient la tension dramatique. Toutefois, le film reste pendant longtemps trop ambigu, j'ai trouvé que la montée en tension n'était pas forcément très bien négociée et il y a des passages un peu longs...Donc au total un film un peu moyen...jusqu'à la fin, que je n'attendais pas, et qui comme je l'ai dit est très bonne et inattendue, très bien vue. Je me suis fait piéger, ce que j'aime bien dans un film...
  • kellymanu Très bon film found footage, le twist de fin est crédible, super bien trouvé et explique beaucoup de chose. Une belle réussite pour moi.
  • galaxy22 Pas mal du tout.Après, c'est clair que le réalisateur s'est énormément inspiré de Paranormal Activity, d'une part, avec les personnages qui se filment eux-mêmes pour raconter l'histoire, et d'autre part, concernant la stratégie commerciale du film, à savoir, faire un film avec un budget minimal pour un profit maximal. Et je pense que cette recette a bien marché.
  • Naewin Malgré quelques longueurs, c'est un bon petit found footage avec de très bons acteurs et un twist très efficace.
  • Cowboys from Hell La mamy est bien flippante par moment 😲 . Le film est assez bon tout comme les acteurs et actrices (Olivia Dejonghe pète l'écran) et un des meilleurs films found footage. 3.5/5.
  • Jack Torrance D. Le twist final est incroyable il fait froid dans le dos
  • I'm A Rocket Man Film dans lequel je n’avais pas placé beaucoup d’espoir et bien je m’étais trompé. Je m’attendais à un film sans intérêt, un peu racoleur mais pas effrayant deux secondes et bien je peux vous dire que j’ai flippé. Et bien comme il faut ! La grand mère est terrifiante, les scènes la nuit sont angoissantes et le rebondissement final est bluffant. Juste dommage que la réalisation soit si moyenne et que la fin soit un peu décevante vu le potentiel ! Une bonne surprise tout de même (mon chéri se souviendra longtemps de la partie de cache cache au sous sol -_-)
  • solaris-33 Et voilà. Encore un exemple de la generation qui ne sait plus regarder un film. Je mate je zappe. Puree, comment juger un film sans l'avoir vu en entier?! Et puis c'est pas du tout un film Netflix. Vous ne connaissez rien au cinema et vous ne savez pas regarder un film. Si votre truc, c'est la grande distribution (Marvel), regardez les super heros et leurs films bourrins décérébrés, plutot. Vous ne serez pas décu.
  • evanov Excellent film vu 2 fois un mélange de flippe et d'éclats de rires. Comme d'habitude avec ce réalisateur, casting, mise en scène et scénario au top
  • Szerelem De nombreux défauts - un twist attendu, trop peu voire pas du tout de moments effrayants, et beaucoup, beaucoup trop de temps morts qui plombent le rythme de l'ensemble - mais globalement le film reste plaisant et divertissant. Pour moi, un film mineur dans la filmo de Shyamalan. +1 pour la fin, émouvante.
  • PowerKing - Les Chroniques du C'est un fait. J'ai du mal m'exprimer en disant qu'il était SUR netflix, et non DE netflix. Comme Avenger en effet.
  • Lefandefilms Ravi de même
  • Lefandefilms Absolument d'accord ^^
  • Adlane M. c pas parcequil est sur Netflix que c un film de Netflix ya avangers sur Netflix ca en fait un film Netflix?
  • Adlane M. c pas un film netflix c le réalisateur de Split qui la fait moi j'ai trouvé pas mal sans rien révolutionné
  • PowerKing - Les Chroniques du Pas du tout d'accord avec ça. Après, si tu préfère payer 10 balles tous les soirs pour aller au cinoche, fais toi plaise. Ou encore l'incroyable qualité des programmes TV!! Netflix a changer la donne sur bien des points.
  • PowerKing - Les Chroniques du Lorsqu'on fait un bref bilan de la filmographie de Night Shyamalan, on comprend alors que le talent n'est pas donné à tout le monde. Lui en tout cas est un maitre du suspens, et plus précisément dans l'art de faire monter l'horreur en puissance. Cette visite tout à fait innocente chez des grands parents jusqu'à ce jour inconnus est un exemple probant de situation dérangeante. C'en est même le paroxysme. A tel point que le dénouement nous prend aux tripes, l'angoisse nous tenaille, lorsqu'on comprend la gravité de la situation. Remercions par ailleurs les bienfaits du hors champs et son pouvoir de suggestion. Depuis quelques années, les caméras en found footage font des ravages, je parle évidemment de REC, pour rester dans le même registre. A noter que les réactions des protagonistes sont très instinctives, réalistes. C'est donc un bon point supplémentaire pour le jeu d'acteur. Une atmosphère insoutenable pour une référence en matière d'épouvante. 4,5/5
  • PowerKing - Les Chroniques du En temps qu’adepte de Netflix, je suis ravi de défendre ce film à tes côtés comme il se doit. C'est une petite merveille du genre horrifique. Flippant à souhait.
  • garounours ah les films Netflix... on comprend mieux pourquoi c'est pas cher ! il est d'un chiant ce film..il se passe rien, abandon avant la fin, comme la plupart des films Netflix récents.
  • Lefandefilms Absolument d'accord. La est la beauté du cinéma , il en faut pour tout les goûts c'est tout tout fait ca :)

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M. Night Shyamalan had his heyday almost 20 years ago. He leapt out of the gate with such confidence he became a champion instantly. And then...something went awry. He became embarrassingly self-serious, his films drowning in pretension and strained allegories. His famous twists felt like a director attempting to re-create the triumph of " The Sixth Sense ," where the twist of the film was so successfully withheld from audiences that people went back to see the film again and again. But now, here comes " The Visit ," a film so purely entertaining that you almost forget how scary it is. With all its terror, "The Visit" is an extremely funny film. 

There are too many horror cliches to even list ("gotcha" scares, dark basements, frightened children, mysterious sounds at night, no cellphone reception), but the main cliche is that it is a "found footage" film, a style already wrung dry. But Shyamalan injects adrenaline into it, as well as a frank admission that, yes, it is a cliche, and yes, it is absurd that one would keep filming in moments of such terror, but he uses the main strength of found footage: we are trapped by the perspective of the person holding the camera. Withhold visual information, lull the audience into safety, then turn the camera, and OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT? 

"The Visit" starts quietly, with Mom ( Kathryn Hahn ) talking to the camera about running away from home when she was 19: her parents disapproved of her boyfriend. She had two kids with this man who recently left them all for someone new. Mom has a brave demeanor, and funny, too, referring to her kids as "brats" but with mama-bear affection. Her parents cut ties with her, but now they have reached out  from their snowy isolated farm and want to know their grandchildren. Mom packs the two kids off on a train for a visit.

Shyamalan breaks up the found footage with still shots of snowy ranks of trees, blazing sunsets, sunrise falling on a stack of logs. There are gigantic blood-red chapter markers: "TUESDAY MORNING", etc. These choices launch us into the overblown operatic horror style while commenting on it at the same time. It ratchets up the dread.

Becca ( Olivia DeJonge ) and Tyler ( Ed Oxenbould ) want to make a film about their mother's lost childhood home, a place they know well from all of her stories. Becca has done her homework about film-making, and instructs her younger brother about "frames" and "mise-en-scène." Tyler, an appealing gregarious kid, keeps stealing the camera to film the inside of his mouth and his improvised raps. Becca sternly reminds him to focus. 

The kids are happy to meet their grandparents. They are worried about the effect their grandparents' rejection had on their mother (similar to Cole's worry about his mother's unfinished business with her own parent in "The Sixth Sense"). Becca uses a fairy-tale word to explain what she wants their film to do — it will be an "elixir" to bring home to Mom. 

Nana ( Deanna Dunagan ), at first glance, is a Grandma out of a storybook, with a grey bun, an apron, and muffins coming out of the oven every hour. Pop Pop ( Peter McRobbie ) is a taciturn farmer who reminds the kids constantly that he and Nana are "old." 

But almost immediately, things get crazy. What is Pop Pop doing out in the barn all the time? Why does Nana ask Becca to clean the oven, insisting that she crawl all the way in ? What are those weird sounds at night from outside their bedroom door? They have a couple of Skype calls with Mom, and she reassures them their grandparents are "weird" but they're also old, and old people are sometimes cranky, sometimes paranoid. 

As the weirdness intensifies, Becca and Tyler's film evolves from an origin-story documentary to a mystery-solving investigation. They sneak the camera into the barn, underneath the house, they place it on a cabinet in the living room overnight, hoping to get a glimpse of what happens downstairs after they go to bed. What they see is more than they (and we) bargained for.

Dunagan and McRobbie play their roles with a melodramatic relish, entering into the fairy-tale world of the film. And the kids are great, funny and distinct. Tyler informs his sister that he wants to stop swearing so much, and instead will say the names of female pop singers. The joke is one that never gets old. He falls, and screams, "Sarah McLachlan!" When terrified, he whispers to himself, " Katy Perry ... " Tyler, filming his sister, asks her why she never looks in the mirror. "Your sweater is on backwards." As he grills her, he zooms in on her, keeping her face off-center, blurry grey-trunked trees filling most of the screen. The blur is the mystery around them. Cinematographer Maryse Alberti creates the illusion that the film is being made by kids, but also avoids the nauseating hand-held stuff that dogs the found-footage style.

When the twist comes, and you knew it was coming because Shyamalan is the director, it legitimately shocks. Maybe not as much as "The Sixth Sense" twist, but it is damn close. (The audience I saw it with gasped and some people screamed in terror.) There are references to " Halloween ", "Psycho" (Nana in a rocking chair seen from behind), and, of course, " Paranormal Activity "; the kids have seen a lot of movies, understand the tropes and try to recreate them themselves. 

"The Visit" represents Shyamalan cutting loose, lightening up, reveling in the improvisational behavior of the kids, their jokes, their bickering, their closeness. Horror is very close to comedy. Screams of terror often dissolve into hysterical laughter, and he uses that emotional dovetail, its tension and catharsis, in almost every scene. The film is ridiculous  on so many levels, the story playing out like the most monstrous version of Hansel & Gretel imaginable, and in that context, "ridiculous" is the highest possible praise.

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M. Night Shyamalan is notorious for using dramatic twists towards the endings of his films, some of which are pulled off perfectly and add an extra layer of depth to a sprawling story (hello, Split ). Some of the director's other offerings simply keep the audience on their toes rather than having any extra subtext or hidden meaning. Shyamalan's 2015 found-footage horror-comedy  The Visit , which he wrote and directed, definitely fits in the latter category, aiming for style over substance.

The Visit follows 15-year-old Becca Jamison (Olivia DeJonge) and her 13-year-old brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) when they spend the week with their mother's estranged parents, who live in another town. Loretta (played by WandaVision 's Kathryn Hahn ) never explained to her children why she separated herself away from her parents, but clearly hopes the weekend could help bring the family back together.

Although The Visit occasionally toys with themes of abandonment and fear of the unknown, it wasn't particularly well-received by critics on its initial release, as many struggled with its bizarre comedic tone in the found-footage style. So, after Tyler and his camera record a number of disturbing occurrences like Nana (Deanna Dunagan) projectile-vomiting in the middle of the night and discovering "Pop Pop"'s (Peter McRobbie) mountain of used diapers, it soon becomes clear that something isn't right with the grandparents.

Here's the ending of  The Visit  explained.

The Visit's twist plays on expectations

Because Shyamalan sets up the idea of the separation between Loretta and her parents very early on — and doesn't show their faces before Becca and Tyler meet them — the film automatically creates a false sense of security. Even more so since the found-footage style restricts the use of typical exposition methods like flashbacks or other scenes which would indicate that Nana and Pop Pop aren't who they say they are. Audiences have no reason to expect that they're actually two escapees from a local psychiatric facility.

The pieces all come together once Becca discovers her  real grandparents' corpses in the basement, along with some uniforms from the psychiatric hospital. It confirms "Nana" and "Pop-Pop" escaped from the institution and murdered the Jamisons because they were a similar age, making it easy to hide their whereabouts from the authorities. And they would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids.)

However, after a video call from Loretta reveals that the pair aren't her parents, the children are forced to keep up appearances — but the unhinged duo start to taunt the siblings. Tyler in particular is forced to face his fear of germs as "Pop Pop" wipes dirty diapers in his face. The germophobia is something Shyamalan threads through Tyler's character throughout The Visit,  and the encounter with "Pop Pop" is a basic attempt of showing he's gone through some kind of trial-by-fire to get over his fears.

But the Jamison kids don't take things lying down: They fight back in vicious fashion — a subversion of yet another expectation that young teens might would wait for adults or law enforcement officers to arrive before doing away with their tormentors.

Its real message is about reconciliation

By the time Becca stabs "Nana" to death and Tyler has repeatedly slammed "Pop-Pop"'s head with the refrigerator door, their mother and the police do arrive to pick up the pieces. In a last-ditch attempt at adding an emotional undertone, Shyamalan reveals Loretta left home after a huge argument with her parents. She hit her mother, and her father hit her in return. But Loretta explains that reconciliation was always on the table if she had stopped being so stubborn and just reached out. One could take a domino-effect perspective and even say that Loretta's stubbornness about not reconnecting and her sustained distance from her parents put them in exactly the vulnerable position they needed to be for "Nana" and "Pop-Pop" to murder them. 

Loretta's confession actually mirrors something "Pop-Pop" told Tyler (before his run-in with the refrigerator door): that he and "Nana" wanted to spend one week as a normal family before dying. They should've thought about that before murdering a pair of innocent grandparents, but here we are. 

So, is The Visit  trying to say that if we don't keep our families together, they'll be replaced by imposters and terrify our children? Well, probably not. The Visit tries to deliver a message about breaking away from old habits, working through your fears, and stop being so stubborn over arguments that don't have any consequences in the long-run. Whether it actually sticks the landing on all of those points is still up for debate.

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The Visit: Where Was M. Night Shyamalan’s Horror Movie Shot?

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Helmed by director M. Night Shyamalan, ‘The Visit’ is a thrilling found-footage film that follows siblings Becca and Tyler as they visit their grandparents, and notice their increasingly disturbing behavior. After arriving at their grandparents’ quaint countryside home, Becca and Tyler are delighted to be able to spend time with them after so long. A day of delightful catching up later, Pop Pop puts the two to sleep and strongly suggests that they not leave their room after nine-thirty. Later that night the children hear loud bangs and scratchings. Soon the elders’ strange behaviour leaks over to the daytime, making the siblings concerned for their safety, but failing to convince their mother to pick them up.

The 2015 film’s tension builds steadily as the siblings uncover dark family secrets and struggle to survive in a house filled with eerie mysteries . ‘The Visit’ delivers a compelling blend of psychological horror and thrilling situations, using its simple backdrop and premise to create terrifying circumstances. The chilling story is contrasted heavily by its seemingly mundane backdrop, which is later revealed to hide disturbing realities within its layers. Thus the atmospheric tension built throughout the tale may spark curiosity in some regarding its real-world filming sites.

The Visit Filming Locations

‘The Visit’ was filmed mainly in Philadelphia, Chester Springs, and Royersford, Pennsylvania, with a few scenes shot in Miami, Florida. Principal photography began on February 19, 2014, under the tentative title, ‘Sundowning,’ and was wrapped up in about a month by March 21 of the same year. In an interview , writer-director Shyamalan marveled at finding the ideal actors to bring his story to life, saying, “This might be my perfect constellation of actors, it’s as if these people were the people that I wrote.” Let’s examine the sites seen throughout the film and their real-life counterparts.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Situated along the banks of the Delaware River, the city of Philadelphia has a brief appearance in ‘The Visit,’ primarily at the beginning and end of the film. When the siblings are dropped off at the train station by their mother, the site is actually the 30th Street Station at 3001 Market Street. Officially known as William H. Gray III 30th Street Station, the prominent intermodal transit station is defined by its grand classical entrance held up with Roman pillars.

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Chester Springs, Pennsylvania

Filming for the grandparents’ house and its exterior scenes was carried out on 3049 Merlin Road, in the unincorporated community of Chester Springs in Chester County. The community lies west of Philadelphia, and its serene snow-covered landscape can be spotted early in ‘The Visit’ as the siblings travel to their grandparents’ house.

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Royersford, Pennsylvania

Nestled along the Schuylkill River, the borough of Royersford stood in for much of the town seen in the film as the characters left the house. Shooting for these scenes was done on 330 Main Street, its small-town charm imbuing the narrative with a pleasant departure from the claustrophobic situations at the elders’ house. Further filming was done on location at 705 Washington Street, which is a quintessential suburban neighborhood.

#Royersford Ambulance crew with @MNightShyamalan . #Sundowning pic.twitter.com/SXR9zKWr9X — Matt Stehman 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 (@MattStehman) February 20, 2014

When the grandfather takes the siblings out to a school, shooting for the sequence was done at the 5/6 Grade Center on 833 South Lewis Road. After their visit, whilst returning, they begin to play a game of pointing out at buildings and guessing their stories. The children point to a large, red-bricked complex lined with white windows. The grandfather ominously reveals the structure to be the Maple Shade Psychiatric Hospital, where he had supposedly volunteered at an earlier point in time. The structure is actually the Royersford Spring Company on 98 Main Street which manufactures automotive parts and springs.

Miami, Florida

For a couple of scenes on a cruise ship, the film crew ventured onboard the Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas for a few days in Miami. The city’s bustling seaport, PortMiami, stands as the Cruise Capital of the World, welcoming millions of passengers annually to embark on voyages to exotic destinations. The cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas, was used as a set for ‘The Visit.’ A casting call for extras announced the need for upscale cruise wear and skills related to activities carried out on the ship, such as wakeboarding and rock wall climbing.

Adam Goldstein tours the set of @MNightShyamalan 's new film shooting scenes onboard Allure of the Seas. pic.twitter.com/WzCG5RtzCp — Royal Caribbean Public Relations (@RoyalCaribPR) April 7, 2014

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En visite chez leurs grands-parents, deux enfants qui réalisent un film sur leur famille ne tardent pas à découvrir de perturbants secrets.

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Winner of the ‘Best Shot’ at the ‘Burbank International Film Festival’ and ‘Catalina Film Festival’ amongst others, ‘The Visit’ in association with Sky Frame pictures, is written, directed and produced by Romina Schwedler. The very opening shot of the film bears with it an unmistakable psychological tenor to it. It is Tuesday, and as always, Ben (Sean Maher) is there at the hospital to meet his mum. And, although it’s usually the Sundays that the mother-son duo meets, this time it’s changed and one wonders at the reason behind it as much as Ben!

The premise of the film centres on where Ben’s mother, Mrs Perkins (June Squibb) is admitted. Perhaps, its dementia, perhaps just a hospice for the aged, we can’t be sure. Ben tries to hold a normal conversation with an increasingly adamant and difficult Mrs Perkins. And, as an audience, we are sold by it too. With the entire film shot in the hospital, the location certainly carried with it the weight of the story, however, it is Schwedler’s skilled handling of the film with its minimalistic tone and well-sequenced dialogues that makes the film hard-hitting in its 12:30 minutes of duration.

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Cinematographer Alan J. Carmona played on the additional lighting cleverly, giving a beautiful mix of cold and warm hues to the film, each foreclosing the coming event; a subtle ode to genius filmmaking. Carmona keeps a shallow depth of field maintaining the characters in sharp focus, thus making each frame an unmissable scene.

Academy Award nominee June Squibb and Sean Maher (‘Firefly’ fame) play their characters to top notch perfection. It feels so real, that it would hardly be a surprise if they were indeed mother and son in real life too! This performance of theirs is no exception and may account to several nominations and wins this time around too!

Without giving away any spoilers, the last scene is absolutely heartbreaking as new visitors join in to see Mrs Perkins and we begin to wonder who really is the patient as the tables turn and conversations ebb between the present and the past and a terrible, terrible tragedy is revealed. Schwedler shows no mercy. Giving no clues to where the narrative is likely to head when the final revelation is made, it is as perplexing and hard hitting for us as it is for Ben; for all is not as it seems!

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Dan Zlotnik’s music is an absolute marvel, light on the ears and fitting in the narrative. Never coming in the way, it simply plays along adding the necessary touch, wherever required. Schwedler who has also handled the editing of the film deserves a special mention for the adroitness with which the scenes are so effortlessly sequenced making the viewing so much more pleasurable.

‘The Visit’ is moving and sad, but above all, it shows the tenacity of the human mind to hold on to its beliefs, no matter how self-harming and hurtful it might be…

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‘The Exorcist’ Priest Was Haunted While Filming the Horror Classic. Now His Son Has Directed an Ambitious Satire About a Cursed Remake

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Joshua John Miller and his personal and creative partner, M.A. Fortin, never set out to make a movie about an exorcism because, as Fortin says to Miller, “Your father stars in the greatest one of all time.”

Miller’s dad was the actor Jason Miller, who played Father Damien Karras in “ The Exorcist .” He often told Joshua stories of the purportedly haunted set, recounting fires that started around the production and the injuries and deaths that would impact those who worked on the film.

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“There was just something about the time and the personal and professional experiences that we’d undergone,” Fortin said. “The language of exorcism movies suddenly felt weirdly compelling to us — the fact that they’re all the same sort of verse, chorus, verse, where the Catholic Cortana is inviolable, perfect and it will save you. Also, women are always the ones you know who are going to be possessed because they’re receptive — it’s very sexist.

“Also, there seems to be a kind of nastiness that has been unleashed, and it seemed at the time specifically that men were the ones who were especially receptive to and susceptible to it,” he continued. “It made us wonder how we could fuck around with the exorcism genre. Also as queer people, we’ve been a couple for 20 years, and I specifically had some nuns in my background for a hot minute. I’ve always had a tenuous relationship with the Church and with its relationship towards queer people.”

“[Fortin] and I had a professional experience years ago on a project,” Joshua said. “It was so traumatizing and emotionally violent that it shook up our world in an extreme way. I guess you could say we saw the devil. In that moment, you either grow from that experience or you shrink. I think that made its way into this movie a lot, subconsciously.”

The duo was unafraid to look directly into the darkness with their script, which speaks frankly about issues including addiction, which Joshua spent much of his life watching his father contend with.

“I think the idea of writing about addiction is rooted in our own experiences and the people around us,” Joshua said. “As a kid, I was witnessing my dad’s deep, painful struggle with addiction. That was very present in my life for me, probably too much to be quite honest. But it taught me to want to be the better variation, the better version. My father came from a time that romanticized indulgence — ‘that’s what artists did.'”

Those difficult, masculinity-examining conversations manifest in other areas of the script as well, such as scenes when a character’s abuse at the hands of the Church is discussed — not standard fare for a typical horror movie.

“In terms of traumas, I think that’s not something people expect in a horror film, per se,” Joshua said. “I think most studios want to have jump scares only and a semblance of pathos. From the beginning, we always knew we were going to fight for the emotionality. If you have that, then you’ll be more scared, you’ll be more invested. It’s always been about focusing on the characters and relationships.”

Another area Joshua and Fortin wanted to examine was Lee’s budding lesbian relationship with a young actress on set, played by Chloe Bailey.

“Growing up, there was a certain segment of Judeo-Christians that could not talking enough about how queer people were either damned or outright evil,” Fortin said. “There is something so disfiguring about having to grow up in that. It feels huge to me that a pop movie that is so much a Catholic story also centers young queer women as being simply on the side of good. It argues — quietly, without politicizing it — that two queer women are part of God’s plan and not anything else. It’s a small thing, but it just feels important to us.”

Joshua held firm too when he had to fight to keep in a brief love scene between the two characters.

“At one point, someone said, ‘Well, it’s not “Euphoria”-type lesbian sex, so why do we need this storyline?’ It was truly one of the most misogynistic things I’ve ever heard,” he said. “We were both devastated upon hearing that note, but I’m a fighter — it was integral. There’s no way I would have stood behind this movie. Thank God we were able to bring that storyline back to life. It’s like saying take out a part of yourself.”

“I can honestly say some of the best times I had with my dad were when I was still drinking and I could have those sort of moments that were our meeting point,” Joshua says. “‘That’s what men do.'”

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Bill Cobbs , a prolific character actor who had a 50-year career with almost 200 film and TV credits, died Tuesday at his home in Riverside, California, his rep confirmed. He was 90.

Among his most notable roles was on Season 3 of “The West Wing,” where his character Alan Tatum visits the White House with his son. In the Coen brothers “The Hudsucker Proxy,” Cobbs played Moses, the clock man who delivers the prologue at the beginning of the film.

Cobbs played manager Devaney in “The Bodyguard” starring Whitney Houston.

His first television credit was 1975’s “Vegetable Soup,” a New York public television educational series. He went on to appear in shows like “The Sopranos,” “Good Times,” “Sesame Street” and “My Wife and Kids.” He also won a Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding limited performance in a daytime program for the series “Dino Dana” in 2020.

In the “West Wing” episode, presidential personal aide Charlie Young tells Tatum that they had rediscovered a letter he had written when he was 9 years old to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

He made his feature film debut in 1974’s “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”

He later appeared in 1979’s “The Hitter,” 1984’s “Brother From Another Planet,” 1997’s “Air Bud,” “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” and 2011’s “The Muppets.” He also played security guard Reginald in 2006’s “Night at the Museum” starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.

Born in Cleveland, he served as an Air Force radar technician and worked other jobs before leaving for New York at the age of 36 to pursue acting. His first professional acting role was in “Ride a Black Horse” at the New York City-based theater company and workshop, Negro Ensemble Company. He later appeared in small theater productions, street theater, regional theater and at the Eugene O’Neill Theater.

Cobbs’ relative, Thomas Cobbs, posted on Facebook to commemorate Bill Cobbs, calling him a “beloved partner, big brother, uncle, surrogate parent, godfather and friend.”

“As a family we are comforted knowing Bill has found peace and eternal rest with his Heavenly Father,” the post read. “We ask for your prayers and encouragement during this time.”

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