Steven Spielberg’s latest film, The Fabelmans, hits theaters this Wednesday, February 22, 2023. We’ve seen it, and we’ll explain why you shouldn’t miss it at the cinema. Our review.
[Mis à jour le 22 février 2023 à 9h22] The cinema of Steven Spielberg shaped the imagination of many moviegoers. Of Jurassic Park To IndianaJonesPassing by AND, Minority Report, Jaws or Schindler’s List, the 76-year-old director has signed some of the greatest films of recent years and remains one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation. For the first time, he tells himself: The Fabelmans is THE cinema release for this Wednesday, February 22, 2023. Spielberg looks back on his personal construction from the age of 6 to 12, marked by the slow separation of his parents and his construction as a filmmaker fascinated by images. Below, find the review of The Internet user.
In 2h31, which we hardly see pass, Steven Spielberg immerses us with emotion in his childhood memories. The Fabelmans is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of his most personal works, in which he expresses everything accurately and without ever falling into pathos: the anti-Semitism he suffered as a teenager, the American dream pursued by his father, his relationship with his parents and his sisters but, above all, the pain of a child who sees his united family fall apart. Paul Dano (The Batman, Little Miss Sunshine) and Michelle Williams (Dawson, Blue Valentine), here embody the Fabelmans parents and are touchingly sincere. The troublemaker Seth Rogen is astonishingly tender here and delivers perhaps one of his best scores.
Steven Spielberg talks about his cinema
Beyond personal exposure, The Fabelmans is a real love letter to cinema. Not an ode to his story and to those films that shaped his cinephilia, or, in any case, not only. Steven Spielberg returns here to his discovery of the power of the image, the way it tells a story, transforms it or reveals hidden truths. The name of this family, which directly evokes the universe of the fable, is thus evocative of the subject of the film. For the first time, Spielberg dissects his language of cinema and his codes, thus revealing himself as no director had been able to do before. Filmmaker of visual metaphor, served by the superb soundtrack by John Williams, Spielberg uses here his unequaled talent as a storyteller to confront us with our own relationship to cinema. Walking in the footsteps of this young man who, as we know, will become one of the most prodigious directors of his generation, is all the more exhilarating.
Steven Spielberg waited for the death of his parents to write the film of his childhood. His father, Arnold Spielberg, died in August 2020, his mother, Leah Adler, died in 2016. The global coronavirus epidemic was also a creative catalyst for the director: “As the health situation worsened, I wondered what I would like to leave behind me and what central problem I absolutely wanted to tackle“, can we read on Allociné. He then wrote the screenplay with Tony Kushner, playwright and writer with whom he also wrote the screenplay for Munich, lincoln And West Side Story.
Synopsis – Sammy Fabelman grew up in Arizona in the 1950s and 1960s. He fell in love with cinema after discovering The Greatest Show on Earth. With his camera, the young man begins to create his own films at home and dreams of becoming a director. He then discovers heartbreaking family secrets, as he watches the couple formed by his parents fall apart. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film is inspired by the filmmaker’s youth.