The Curious Story of Benjamin Button entered the Prime Video catalog this month. An excellent reason to rediscover the cult performances of one of the greatest actors of his generation, currently playing at Babylon.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Released in 2008, nominated in 13 categories and walking away with 3 trophies at the 81st Academy Awards, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button marks Brad Pitt and David Fincher’s third collaboration after Seven and Fight Club, as well as a key milestone in their respective careers.
“Curious destiny than mine”, says Benjamin Button about his story. Born with the body of an octogenarian, this man with an extraordinary journey discovers life upside down, his aging process being reversed. As he grows younger with the passage of time, Benjamin’s destiny intertwines with that of Daisy (Cate Blanchett) in a romantic-tragic fresco where love and the bizarre are confronted.
A second adaptation of the eponymous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald which is a must seeto see urgently on Prime Video, if it is not already done!
fight club
Before Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt played another role in front of David Fincher’s camera, in an equally cult adaptation: Fight Club. 4 years after Seven and his interpretation of Inspector Somerset, the actor delivered an equally memorable performance, but in a completely different register.
A man (Edward Norton) lives alone, works alone… When he can no longer sleep and goes on business trips, he meets Tyler Durden on a plane. A sort of anarchist and philosopher guru, soap maker, he directs the Fight Club.
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In this place of clandestine combat, our solitary narrator will be able to rediscover his virility, exchange and communication. A club that pushes its members to discover who they really are, for better… but above all for worse. If he lost a tooth on the set, Brad Pitt won his letters of nobility through this film which has become a symbol for all moviegoers.
Ad Astra
Before Armageddon Time released in 2022 and after The Immigrant in 2013, James Gray created a surprise in 2019 with Ad Astra, a science fiction film as impressive as it is intimate.
Brad Pitt plays Roy McBride, an astronaut on a mission in the galaxy to find the source of strange and dangerous celestial phenomena. But his real goal is to find his father (Tommy Lee Jones), who disappeared several years ago in the vacuum of space. Could these two challenges be linked?
Fascinating representation of human hubris against a background of generational conflict, Ad Astra is a little nugget of writing… but also of interpretation. Brad Pitt, in his intimate quest at the heart of the void of space, is overwhelming.
Inglourious Basterds
Change of sets, period and director with Inglourious Basterds. 10 years before Once upon a time… in Hollywood!, Brad Pitt was already collaborating with Quentin Tarantino in a crazy and brutal fable, but full of passion for cinema and its history.
1940, in Europe. Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) trains a group of Jewish soldiers to carry out particularly bloody punitive actions against the Nazis. “The Bastards”, as their enemies will come to know them by, join German actress and secret agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) in an attempt to eliminate the high dignitaries of the Third Reich.
At the same time, a young French Jew (Mélanie Laurent) sees her destiny changed forever by her encounter with a German officer.
The Big Short
Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Selena Gomez, Margot Robbie and Jeremy Strong, all reunited in an Adam McKay film (Don’t Look Up). What more ? Nothing ! And that is, among other things, what The Big Short has in store for us!
Awarded at the Oscars for its screenplay with small onions, the feature film tells the (true) story of Michael Burry and his associates. Taking advantage of the generalized blindness of the big banks, the media and the government, the four men anticipate the bursting of the financial bubble and develop the heist of the century. Visionaries, they will bet against the banks … and try to win the bet!
These films can be seen on Prime Video.