Magnolia
- 1999
- Tous publics
- 3h 8min
Une mosaïque épique de personnages étroitement liés, en quête d'amour, de pardon et de sens, dans la vallée de San Fernando.Une mosaïque épique de personnages étroitement liés, en quête d'amour, de pardon et de sens, dans la vallée de San Fernando.Une mosaïque épique de personnages étroitement liés, en quête d'amour, de pardon et de sens, dans la vallée de San Fernando.
- Nommé pour 3 Oscars
- 28 victoires et 59 nominations au total
Mark Flanagan
- Joseph Green
- (as Mark Flannagan)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe story about the man being killed by a gunshot while falling off a building has for years been used as a hypothetical case in criminal law classes to illustrate causation.
- GaffesIn the "Wise Up" sequence, Claudia is dressed for her date, she's wearing black and her hair is up. When she opens the door to Jim, she's wearing red, her hair is down. On the way to the car, she is again wearing black etc, and at the restaurant she is back wearing red.
- Citations
Jimmy Gator: The book says, "We might be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us."
- Crédits fousUnderneath the title at the end a line reads "for fa and ea". fa is Fiona Apple (Paul Thomas Anderson's girlfriend) ea is Ernie Anderson (Paul Thomas Anderson's father)
- Versions alternativesThe supplemental material disc of the R1 special edition DVD of Magnolia has about 8 minutes of hidden outtake footage. To access it, you need to select the 'Color Bars' option and wait about twenty seconds.
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Johnny Vaughan Film Show: Épisode #1.1 (1999)
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A really creative film that is certainly not for everyone...
"Magnolia" is an incredibly unusual film...sort of an experimental project in it's style. Because of this and the occasionally extremely graphic language and depressing stories, it's a film that many would find hard to like...though I remember professional critics practically falling all over themselves praising it for its originality. So did I like it? Read on.
As far as how the film is experimental, it features many different stories that are interwoven throughout the story and it is really not apparently what connects them all during much of "Magnolia". There are also many rapid edits and jumps that make it difficult to follow as well as the three hour plus running time.
There is a prologue where several stories (including at least two urban legends) are all used to illustrate death and that perhaps in life there are no coincidences...and you can only assume the disparate stories that follow must be related to this...maybe. So what are the stories? Well, there are too many and too many parts to tell but they involve a dying man (Jason Robards) and his caregiver (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a woman who appears to be strung out (Julianne Moore), a cop who seems to go from one crisis call to another (John C. Reilly), a man who is dying and wants to reconnect with his angry daughter, an ex-quiz kid who now feels like a loser, a sociopathic motivational speaker (Tom Cruise) and many more. And do they all come together to make any sense? Well, they are mostly pretty depressing...at least I can say that without hurting the viewing experience.
As I watched, I found "Magnolia" very hard to stop watching. Despite not necessarily enjoying much of the film, it sure kept my attention. Much of it was because the film features a lot of great actors and they had some amazing moments in the movie. Is it a film I loved? No. But I do respect it for trying to be different. And, on balance I am glad I saw it. But I agree with the director/writer when he later said the film might have been better had it been pared down a bit.
As far as how the film is experimental, it features many different stories that are interwoven throughout the story and it is really not apparently what connects them all during much of "Magnolia". There are also many rapid edits and jumps that make it difficult to follow as well as the three hour plus running time.
There is a prologue where several stories (including at least two urban legends) are all used to illustrate death and that perhaps in life there are no coincidences...and you can only assume the disparate stories that follow must be related to this...maybe. So what are the stories? Well, there are too many and too many parts to tell but they involve a dying man (Jason Robards) and his caregiver (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a woman who appears to be strung out (Julianne Moore), a cop who seems to go from one crisis call to another (John C. Reilly), a man who is dying and wants to reconnect with his angry daughter, an ex-quiz kid who now feels like a loser, a sociopathic motivational speaker (Tom Cruise) and many more. And do they all come together to make any sense? Well, they are mostly pretty depressing...at least I can say that without hurting the viewing experience.
As I watched, I found "Magnolia" very hard to stop watching. Despite not necessarily enjoying much of the film, it sure kept my attention. Much of it was because the film features a lot of great actors and they had some amazing moments in the movie. Is it a film I loved? No. But I do respect it for trying to be different. And, on balance I am glad I saw it. But I agree with the director/writer when he later said the film might have been better had it been pared down a bit.
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- planktonrules
- 13 mars 2018
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Mag·no'li·a
- Lieux de tournage
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 37 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 22 455 976 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 193 604 $US
- 19 déc. 1999
- Montant brut mondial
- 48 453 541 $US
- Durée3 heures 8 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39 : 1
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