“Killers of the Flower Moon”, the new film by Martin Scorsese, was presented this Saturday, May 20 at the Cannes Film Festival. What did the critics on the Croisette think of this river western worn by Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro?
This was the event of this Saturday, May 20 on the Croisette: the presentation, Out of Competition, of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, a large fresco of 3h26 which offers the filmmaker the opportunity to direct his accomplices Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro. Suffice to say that the climb of the Cannes steps had a hell of a pace…
Killers of the Flower Moon: “Exceptional”, “phenomenal DiCaprio”… Cannes ignites for “one of the best Scorsese”
Killers of the Flower Moon, which will be released in French cinemas on October 18, looks back on the serial murders, in Oklahoma in the 1920s, of which members of the Osage community, which had grown rich thanks to the oil present under its land. The FBI, which was then attacking its first major investigation, had been mandated to confuse the culprits.
What was the reception of Martin Scorsese’s new opus by the French and international cinema press? Answer below!
What the French press thinks…
Telerama : “Between western and film noir, Scorsese abandons its baroque accents to sign three and a half hours of a vibrant historical fresco. (…) It’s up to Lily Gladstoneunforgettable Jamie in Some womenof Kelly Reichardtthat the director reserves his most beautiful shots.”
Widescreen : “(…)… with Killers of the Flower Moon, based on a narrative contrary to the preferences of the general public, Martin Scorsese precisely takes all the risks. By deploying an epic criminal fresco, violent, but above all grueling, bitter and funereal about human greed, it seems to urge viewers to explore new territory, to rekindle the flame that is about to be extinguished.”
The echoes : “47 years after his Palme d’Or for Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese deploys in Cannes a dizzying criminal fresco, located somewhere between the western, film noir and ancient tragedy.
First : “Against the backdrop of crimes against the Osage Indians in Oklahoma in the 1920s, the director of Freedmen signs a twilight and majestic film (although a bit long). (…) Turning his back on baroque fever, the filmmaker is now looking for a form of twilight serenity in the midst of chaos.”
The voice of the North : “Two favorite actors of the great Scorsese do not make us forget the immense performance of Lily Gladstone, wife in love but blinded, betrayed, sick. She gives a heartbreaking face to this forgotten people, over the course of an almost western whose biting irony and dry violence gradually replace a tragic and overwhelming darkness.”
cinema teaser : “(…)… in the end, it is through the story of a twisted and tortured love that Scorsese tells this great and noble country which owes everything to its impostures. Purely his cinema…”
Release : “Between the mastery and the megastars Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, the very Scorsese historical fresco by Martin Scorsese, on a series of murders committed in an indigenous community in Oklahoma, stands out as a great alternative spectacle.”
Huffington Post : “(…)… what no communication on the film had suggested until then: Killers of the Flower Moon is a grating comedy, where Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio excel in their dialogues and facial expressions The first in the role of an odious and Machiavellian manipulator, the second in that of a nephew who is a little too naive and docile.”
LCI : “An epic, poisonous and very political fresco on an unknown part of the History of the United States of America. The occasion of an anthology face-to-face between Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro, the two actors fetishes of the filmmaker. (…) Faced with these two sacred monsters, the revelation Lily Gladstone, in the role of Mollie, seduces by her mixture of candor and seriousness. We can already tick her name for the next Oscars.”
What the international press thinks…
variety : “In terms of style, it resembles a young man’s film. It is immediately captivating, with a palpable tension punctuated by the score of Robbie Robertson.”
The Hollywood Reporter : “The duration of 3h30 is fully justified with this tragedy that goes crescendo and never loosens its grip. The film is a sordid illustration of historical erasure, with echoes of a political game that bitterly divides today.”
The Independent : “DiCaprio and De Niro are brilliant, but it’s the relatively unknown Lily Gladstone who is truly extraordinary.”
Deadline : “Killers of the Flower Moon takes us to a very dark part of our history, which reminds us of how horrible we can be to each other. A reminder that is needed more than ever today. Just for that, this film does not Couldn’t come at a better time.”
The Wrap : “Killers of the Flower Moon is vast and vital in its scale, purpose and emotional reach. It’s a Western-thriller that is everything one could dare imagine from a Scorsese crime film.”
Killers of the Flower Moon, in theaters October 18.