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Le jeune Jeffrey Dahmer se débat à appartenir au lycée.Le jeune Jeffrey Dahmer se débat à appartenir au lycée.Le jeune Jeffrey Dahmer se débat à appartenir au lycée.
- Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 2 nominations
Brady M.K. Dunn
- Bossy
- (as Brady Dunn)
Michael Ryan Boehm
- Shorty
- (as Michael Ryan)
Ben Zgorecki
- Bully Jock
- (as Benjamin Zgorecki)
Gabriela Novogratz
- Lisa Watkins
- (as Gaby Novogratz)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesMon ami Dahmer (2017) was filmed in Jeffrey Dahmer's actual childhood home in Bath, Ohio. Location Manager Kathy Ruggeri also wanted to film scenes that took place at Revere High School, Dahmer's alma mater, at the actual high school in Richfield, Ohio itself, but the school administration declined her request.
- GaffesWhen Jeff gets kicked out of a supermarket for goofing off, several modern cars pass by from outside.
- Citations
Jeffrey Dahmer: I'm just like anybody else.
- Crédits fousEpilogue: "On June 18, 1978, Steven Hicks went back to Jeffrey Dahmer's house. He was never seen again. In July, 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested and confessed to murdering 17 young men."
- ConnexionsFeatured in Becoming Evil: Serial Killers: 21st Century Serial Killers (2019)
- Bandes originales5.7.0.5
Written by Steve Lunt (as Stephen Lunt) and Lol Mason (as Laurence Mason)
Performed by City Boy
Courtesy of Cherry Red Records
Commentaire à la une
Tonally brilliant, narratively weak
Taking place over the course of Jeffrey Dahmer's last year in high school, and culminating with the fateful meeting between Dahmer (Ross Lynch) and Steven Hicks (Dave Sorboro), writer/director Marc Meyers's My Friend Dahmer is based on the graphic novel by John Backderf (played in the film by Alex Wolff), who attended the same school as Dahmer, and formed a pseudo-friendship with him. The film is tonally brilliant, coming across like Breakfast Club (1985) directed by David Fincher, perfectly capturing 80s tackiness. Narratively, however, it's extremely plodding, and could easily have been trimmed by 20 minutes.
It's also difficult to see what Meyers was trying to achieve; other than a couple of brief moments, we're never given any real access to Dahmer's interiority, so he remains an enigma, always at arm's length (which could have been the point). But is Meyers asking us to feel sympathy for Dahmer because he had a difficult adolescence, came from a broken home, couldn't make friends in school. Or is this simply a character study (if we didn't know it was about Dahmer, it could be any number of examinations of high school awkwardness)?
The lack of clarity regarding the film's theme is compounded by the scenes where it looks as if Dahmer is about to murder someone, only to stop at the last second. This is an especially strange way to generate tension, insofar as we already know his first murder was Hicks. Also, if the film is actually trying to say something of societal worth regarding serial killers, directionless youth, nature vs. nurture etc, trying to draw an audience into the narrative with the prospect of murder probably isn't the way to go about it. The film also fails to really get into the issues of Dahmer's sexuality, and his confusion and frustration about being gay. It's worth a look, and Lynch's performance is quite something, but if you're already familiar with Dahmer's story, you won't find much insight here.
It's also difficult to see what Meyers was trying to achieve; other than a couple of brief moments, we're never given any real access to Dahmer's interiority, so he remains an enigma, always at arm's length (which could have been the point). But is Meyers asking us to feel sympathy for Dahmer because he had a difficult adolescence, came from a broken home, couldn't make friends in school. Or is this simply a character study (if we didn't know it was about Dahmer, it could be any number of examinations of high school awkwardness)?
The lack of clarity regarding the film's theme is compounded by the scenes where it looks as if Dahmer is about to murder someone, only to stop at the last second. This is an especially strange way to generate tension, insofar as we already know his first murder was Hicks. Also, if the film is actually trying to say something of societal worth regarding serial killers, directionless youth, nature vs. nurture etc, trying to draw an audience into the narrative with the prospect of murder probably isn't the way to go about it. The film also fails to really get into the issues of Dahmer's sexuality, and his confusion and frustration about being gay. It's worth a look, and Lynch's performance is quite something, but if you're already familiar with Dahmer's story, you won't find much insight here.
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- Bertaut
- 14 juin 2018
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- My Friend Dahmer
- Lieux de tournage
- 4480 West Bath Road, Bath Township, Ohio, États-Unis(as Jeffrey Dahmer's home)
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 1 361 611 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 35 545 $US
- 5 nov. 2017
- Montant brut mondial
- 1 436 751 $US
- Durée1 heure 47 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 2.39:1
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