OPPENHEIMER FILM. Christopher Nolan’s latest film achieved good scores at the box office for its first days of operation. If the critics are conquered, he is crushed by Barbie.
[Mis à jour le 24 juillet 2023 à 11h13] The first days of operation were very favorable for “Oppenheimer”. For its first weekend of exploitation in the United States, the film collected 80.5 million dollars, and 174.2 million worldwide. A very nice score for the film by Christopher Nolan (and for a 3 hour film, which reduces the number of sessions).
But the feature film faces competition from “Barbie”, released the same day. If the film directed by Christopher Nolan is more unanimous on the side of the critics, the public has for the moment given its preference to the doll Mattel, which collected 155 million dollars at the American box office and 337 million dollars around the world. On the side of the critics, however, the advantage is with “Oppenheimer” (3.8/5 for the press and 4.4/5 for the spectators on Allociné, while “Barbie wins the press and spectator rating of 3.4/5).
According to the press, the biopic on the complex figure of the inventor of the atomic bomb is “exciting” (Le Parisien), “sophisticated and didactic” (franceinfo) but also a “prodigious bet” (Ecran Large). For the specialized media Cinemateaser, “Chris Nolan continues to lead the great American show towards singular and experimental territories, between intimate portrait and political fresco. Very great cinema.” Télérama, for its part, salutes a “biopic as subtle as it is incarnate”, the performance of actor of Cillian Murphy but also by Robert Downey Jr. are unanimously acclaimed.
Not all reviews, however, are entirely unanimous. This is particularly the case of Liberation, which writes that this film “too much reinforcement of pyrotechnic effects shows nothing of the life of the” father “of the atomic bomb”. For its part, Les Numériques admits that the film is “impressive” but “lacks heart”. It’s the spectators’ turn to form their own opinions this Wednesday.
Synopsis – “Oppenheimer” is a biopic devoted to Julius Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant researcher known for having led the creation of the atomic bomb in the United States during the Second World War.
In 1945, Julius Robert Oppenheimer changed the face of the world. It is to him that we owe the invention of the atomic bomb, a weapon which completely upset the balance of power in the world and which caused a veritable massacre of the population in Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6 and 9, 1945. These bombings killed more than 200,000 people. Faced with this tragedy, the scientist denounces the massacre to President Truman and resigns from his post. Accused of sympathizing with the communists during the Cold Warhis security clearances were withdrawn in 1954. He died on February 18, 1967, at only 62 years old.
How was the scene of the explosion of the atomic bomb shot?
Who says biopic on Julius Robert Oppenheimer, necessarily says scene where we see the atomic bomb exploded. Near TF1, the film crew returned to the shooting of this sequence. We thus learn that Christopher Nolan chose not to use digital effects so that the viewer feels “the feeling of threat” during the blast of the first nuclear explosion. Actor Cillian Murphy explains that this sequence required several days of filming in the New Mexico desert. However, the way in which this scene was shot and reproduced with precision will not be detailed by the film crews. “The accomplishment of this impossible task arouses a feeling of victory and enthusiasm, details the director at the microphone of TF1. But the implications for the world are devastating and will always be felt. I like to think that we were able to capture that in the film.
Why The Oppenheimer Movie Will Be Very Different From Other Nolan Movies
In an interview before the release of “Oppenheimer” on July 19, 2023, Christopher Nolan described the particularities of this explosive feature film. The director of “The Dark Knight” and “Inception” assured that his latest film contains more romance, “a lot more than what [qu’il]The film thus contains “nudity scenes and sex scenes” between Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh, who plays the scientist’s former fiancé, which the director had never allowed himself to do so far in his filmography. Other differences exist between “Oppenheimer” and the rest of the filmmaker’s filmography, since it will be the director’s longest film, and the first since “Insomnia”. (2002) to receive the “R” rating, synonymous with “Restricted” in the United States. This means that minors under the age of 17 must be accompanied by an adult to see the feature film in theaters.