Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: the first part of a cult SF saga.
Since her television debut at the age of 16, Jennifer Lawrence’s talent has been praised by critics. For her performance as the rebellious teenager in the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show, she already won a Young Artist Award.
In 2008, the budding actress was successively awarded the Best Performance Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, then the Most Promising Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival, respectively for The Poker House and Far From the Scorched Earth.
In 2010, her striking incarnation of a loner living in the forest in Winter’s Bone definitively revealed her as a personality to follow. And if she appears to the general public in the skin of Mystique in the blockbuster X-Men: The Beginning, her notoriety increases even more when she is chosen, among numerous candidates (including Hailee Steinfeld, Saoirse Ronan , Chloë Grace Moretz, Lyndsy Fonseca, Shailene Woodley, and Kaya Scodelario) to play the heroine of The Hunger Games – adaptation of the first novel in the successful dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
Rather accustomed to independent films, Jennifer Lawrence takes three days to decide, particularly dreading finding herself in a media whirlwind, like Kristen Stewart during the release of Twilight.
She finally agrees to lend her features to Katniss Everdeen and invests herself in her role through physical training which notably allows her to learn how to handle a bow and arrows.
This is how Jennifer Lawrence becomes the highest-grossing action movie heroine of all time. When it was released in 2012, Hunger Games garners $694 million in worldwide revenue for a budget of $78 million!
In France, the film attracted 1.7 million spectators in theaters. The face of the actress, now known internationally, carries the rest of the franchise until its end, in 2015.
Note that a prequel, Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Serpent and the Songbird, is expected in theaters on November 15.
Hunger Games by Gary Ross with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth…
From 12 years old
Tonight on TFX at 9:05 p.m.