The New Boy
- 2023
- 1h 36m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
5,7/10
1,1 k
MA NOTE
Un jeune orphelin aborigène de 9 ans découvre en pleine nuit un monastère isolé dirigé par une nonne.Un jeune orphelin aborigène de 9 ans découvre en pleine nuit un monastère isolé dirigé par une nonne.Un jeune orphelin aborigène de 9 ans découvre en pleine nuit un monastère isolé dirigé par une nonne.
- Prix
- 7 victoires et 25 nominations
Histoire
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- AnecdotesActress Cate Blanchett is a producer on this picture which was filmed in South Australia (S.A.). Her first starring role in a theatrical feature film was Parklands (1996) which was also shot in S.A. about just over 25 years earlier. One other person worked on both of these productions. This was her husband, Andrew Upton, who performed duties in the capacities of continuity on Parklands (1996) and producing on 'The New Boy'.
Commentaire en vedette
The New Boy
Set against a backdrop of a strongly colonial and white Australia, we are rather violently introduced to a young, blonde, Aboriginal lad (Aswan Reid) who is conked out by a boomerang and awakens to find himself in the care of "Sister Eileen" (Cate Blanchett) and "Sister Mum" (Deborah Mailman) at a remote orphanage. She is pretty devout and he is very much in tune with nature - both people of faith, but not the same kind. The arrival of a large wooden crucifix to top their altar seems to focus both of them on what now becomes a rather dry and simplistic tale of spirituality. Reid does come across well. There is a spontaneity and naturalness to his performance, but Blanchett over-eggs just about all of the rest of it. She does this type of role well - shorn hair, manic eyes, slightly eccentric characterisation - but here there's just not enough story for her (or us) to get the teeth into. I got the sense that there was something almost "Oliver Twist" about the lad. Blonde? Sent away? Did he have a secret identity? That's not the story, though - and when he suffers his own rather personal misfortune at the end, I felt a rather overwhelming dislike of "Eileen" and her superstition-ridden church. Too be fair, this isn't a film that doesn't provoke a response - but with sparse dialogue and little character development, it's not really much more than a beautifully photographed vehicle for Blanchett to indulge herself and for Reid to be a boy facing a confusing future.
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- CinemaSerf
- 27 mars 2024
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Détails
Box-office
- Brut – à l'échelle mondiale
- 655 628 $ US
- Durée1 heure 36 minutes
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- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1
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