Almost an hour and a half in line to enter a cinema? You wouldn’t expect this much to eat at a recommended restaurant, but to see The flower moon killersthe new film by Martin Scorsese, with Leonardo Dicaprio and Robert De Niro to star, yes.
And if it rains, as it did from time to time.
Both the Sala Lumière, where the Gala was held and the three aforementioned artists were present, and the Debussy (reserved for the press) were full, with tickets sold out for four days, as soon as it was possible to book online.
The story is true, and we will see how the director, who hadn’t set foot in the Sala Lumière since After Hours in 1985, adapted it. the Irishhis previous film, the 206-minute adaptation of journalist David Grann’s book doesn’t feel in the body. Scorsese He is one of the few Hollywood filmmakers who has passed the age of 70 (he is already 80) who has modernized himself, who has no ups and downs or films to regret.
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Native community were the wealthiest Americans per capita, after oil wells were discovered beneath their badlands. Of course the white supremacists would not have consented to this, and a series of gruesome murders and disappearances began to occur.
The film shows how these deaths go unsolved, and even how a death is labeled a suicide, when we see this woman being shot by a man who then puts the gun in her hand.
Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio, Calculin hairstyle) arrives in Fairfax, that area of Oklahoma. When he gets off the train, they are waiting to take him to his uncle, a kind of landowner, but without oil. Bill Hall (Robert Deniro) asks him to call him as before: King. He’s the meanest kid in the area, a good boy who runs the town, including the sheriff, and is behind the defrauding of at least one Osage family.
And that’s how this WW1 “hero” newcomer (although he was just a cook) finds a way to progress, and strike it rich. It doesn’t take long for his uncle to convince him that he should marry Mollie (Lili Gladstone), whose net worth as an Osage is very high. And, curiously, little by little his sisters and his mother are dying.
The calculation is simple: the entire fortune will go to the Hale family. Ernest, of course. And if something happened to him, to his uncle King.
It wasn’t hard to scam the Osage, since they were certified “incompetent” and needed some assigned target to manage their funds. Another form of pimping is signing insurance policies, as King does with Henry Roan (William Belleau). And we already guess what King will do.
Violent, but not that violent
With all, The flower moon killers Not one of the director’s more violent films New York gangs -OK, there is a head split from the nape-. So sure that the natives, whenever they can, ensure that those who committed those murders will be prosecuted. Because they know that no one in government bothers to clarify the murders. And they will have to pay to get someone to investigate.
We have said that Scorsese has privileged something over other aspects of the novel. It is not so much the investigation of the fledgling FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover (who is only mentioned), or on a white savior (Agent Tom White, which is made up of Jesse Plemons), nor is the victim followed , the Dare.
No. Scorsese, who has always loved the bad guys, the corrupt, those who can commit acts of violence without moving a hair – especially if they don’t get their hands dirty, but order them. Director of Taxi driver he chose a point of view: that of the criminals, and not the others. He usually does it in his gangster movies, why not with DiCaprio and De Niro?
DiCaprio has the grossest role he’s ever played in his career, and none of that has anything to do with him frowning for most of the footage. You have to make decisions ranging from morals, and how into Once upon a time… in Hollywood, in which Tarantino made him cry on camera, he must be vulnerable here. Weak, but if you like, ruthless.
But what is a luxury is to see De Niro, as King tricks DiCaprio’s Ernest with his snake tongue. They are two different types of performance, which Scorsese knows how to handle with a steady hand.
And there is one scene, that of De Niro’s chás chás to Dicaprio that will surely be talked about when it comes out in theaters (and on AppleTV+, later), starting in October.
And such is the difference between what Scorsese focuses on De Niro and DiCaprio, that both Jesse Plemons and the recovered Brendan Fraser (even if he seems straight out of the filming of The whale) can hardly do anything with their roles.
What about the Osage? Well, thanks, they’re sort of extras at someone else’s party, even if the director chooses to open and close the film with the native community.
Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who has been Scorsese’s eye on his latest films, shines in every choice of colors, and there is one scene in particular that dazzles. Bathed in gold, indeed a raging yellow of fire, in which there is a burning field, with the figures of peasants interrupted.
Maybe too long The flower moon killers (flowers born wild) is a sight to behold on the big screen. We will remember it in October.
Source: Clarin
