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The great Judy Davis in her first Oscar-nominated performance as E.M. Forster’s troubled heroine Ade

The great Judy Davis in her first Oscar-nominated performance as E.M. Forster’s troubled heroine Adela Quested, a repressed English tourist on a transformative journey, in the lush screen adaptation A Passage to India (1984, David Lean)


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“A Passage To India” ou le (quasi) échec de l'interculturel… Ok, le film, d'après“A Passage To India” ou le (quasi) échec de l'interculturel… Ok, le film, d'après

“A Passage To India” ou le (quasi) échec de l'interculturel… Ok, le film, d'après le roman de E.M. Forster, joue dans les années 20 et les postcolonial studies n'existaient pas encore. 

L'histoire - une jeune anglaise troublée par la sensualité exotique et les fâcheuses conséquences qui s'ensuivent - n'est pas nouvelle, mais peu importe: on a un plaisir nostalgique à contempler les plans panoramiques leanesques où l'homme se fait tout petit, qu'il le veuille ou non. 

Deux détails: le symphonisme de Maurice Jarre a mal vieilli, rappelle les films à overtureetinterlude d'une autre époque (celle de “Lawrence of Arabia”, justement). À l'inverse (mais je me fais peut-être des idées), Judy Davis a parfois un regard résolument eightiesdans le film, comme si elle était en fait une journaliste de revue branchée londonienne…  

Années 20, 50, 80 - en regardant ce film aujourd'hui, on a une curieuse impression d'époques qui se chevauchent.


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“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim ‘I do enjoy myself’ or 'I am horrified’ we are insincere. 'As far as I feel anything, it is enjoyment, horror’ - it’s no more than that really, and a perfectly adjusted organism would be silent. ”

E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991 “Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991 “Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991 “Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991 “Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991 “Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’Sir David Lean March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991 “Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’

Sir David Lean
March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991

“Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director’s job to make it appear real.”


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