Released this week, the new Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”, won praise from the French press, since its average is 4.9/5 (on AlloCiné, for 41 critics).
Golden Globe winner and favorite for the 2023 Oscars, the new Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans, is an autobiographical film centered on the famous director’s journey as a child and (especially) teenager. Particularly well received by French critics, the feature film benefits from a dithyrambic press rating of 4.9/5 (and this for 41 ratings!), which makes it, of course, the best film of 2023, but also. .. One of the best since the beginning of the press review on AlloCiné!
WHAT IS IT ABOUT ?
A deeply intimate portrait of an American childhood in the 20th century, Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans immerses us in the family history of the filmmaker who shaped his personal and professional life. From the initiatory story of a lonely young man who aspires to realize his dreams, the film explores romantic relationships, artistic ambition, sacrifice and moments of lucidity that allow us to have a sincere and tender look at ourselves. ourselves and our parents.
The Fabelmans by Steven Spielberg
With Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Chloe East…
WHAT THE PRESS THINKS…
According to The Point:
“Carried by a thousand staging ideas and an endearing cast, this intimate odyssey hits the heart.” (Philip Guedj) 5/5
According to Le Figaro:
“The thirty-fourth feature film by the American filmmaker is one of his most beautiful. The most personal too, since it traces his childhood, his discovery of cinema and the separation of his parents.” (Eric Neuhoff) 5/5
According to Cahiers du Cinema:
“There is more than one reason to be moved to tears in front of The Fabelmans, who is however no more a melodrama than he is suspected of emotional blackmail (…) On the evening of his career, Spielberg, like many of his characters before him, is coming home.” (Jerome Momcilovic) 5/5
According to Critikat.com:
“From his childhood memories, Spielberg draws a film that is both luminous and of a hushed, almost stifled brutality.” (Josue Morel) 5/5
According to Defector:
“Rarely has a filmmaker won the bet to go back with such happiness to the origins of his desire for cinema, his taste for games and life bigger, wider, more moldable.” (Severine Danflous) 5/5
According to Marie Claire:
“Half period fresco (ah, California in the 1960s!), half return to origins, could The Fabelmans, under its perky airs, have the ambition of a testamentary film? We think of it with this confession from the filmmaker of 76 years old.” (Emily Barnett) 5/5
According to aSee-aLire.com:
“After surveying his inner cinematheque for more than a decade, Steven Spielberg completes his work with The Fabelmans, both ingenuous and erudite synthesis of the director’s ineffable obsession with cinema, the ultimate refuge of the dream maker, capable of transcend reality.” (Julian Rocher) 5/5
According to Telerama:
“In this family harboring a secret, the apprenticeship of the future filmmaker’s son takes on a romantic air. The director recounts his youth. Masterful, and moving.” (Louis Guichard) 5/5
According to Le Monde:
“This intimate matter, Spielberg wraps it warmly in terms of a magnificent classicism, with a sense of salient detail and a tragicomic sensibility.” (Mathieu Macheret) 5/5
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According to The Cross:
Around the young Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano and Michelle Williams deliver a subtle score in a film that leaves room for the imagination of childhood and the mysterious powers of images.” (Céline Rouden) 4/5