{"id":13845,"date":"2010-09-07T14:47:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shunrize.com\/wordpress\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:02:43","slug":"critique-pontypool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shunrize.com\/blog\/critique-pontypool\/","title":{"rendered":"L’Etrange Festival 2010 – Pontypool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinqui\u00e8me film en lice pour le Prix du nouveau genre 2010<\/i> de L\u2019Etrange Festival<\/a>, PONTYPOOL est le premier volet d\u2019une trilogie \u00e9crite par Tony Burgess<\/b> qui a pour l\u2019occasion adapt\u00e9 ses \u00e9crits pour ce long-m\u00e9trage.<\/p>\n

Pourvu d\u2019un script bavard et d\u2019un faible budget, son action se d\u00e9roule principalement dans une ancienne \u00e9glise transform\u00e9e en station radio o\u00f9 Grant Mazzy interpr\u00e9t\u00e9 avec brio par Stephen McHattie<\/b> (A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE) nous livre de sa voix chaude et hypnotique les nouvelles insignifiantes qui bercent le quotidien d\u2019une petite bourgade perdue du Canada. Surveill\u00e9 de pr\u00e8s par sa productrice Sidney Briar (Lisa Houle<\/b>) et second\u00e9 par son ing\u00e9nieur du son, Laurel-Ann Drummond (Georgina Reilly<\/b>) et leur correspondant Ken Looney (Rick Roberts<\/b>) qui est sens\u00e9 survoler la r\u00e9gion en h\u00e9licopt\u00e8re, l\u2019animateur radio qui officiait autrefois dans la Capitale ronge son frein en vidant sa bouteille de scotch.<\/p>\n

Bient\u00f4t, notre \u00e9quipe de choc re\u00e7oit des bribes d\u2019informations selon lesquelles une \u00e9meute se serait produite devant le domicile du docteur Mendez (Hrant Alianak<\/b>). Pour l\u2019animateur radio, l\u2019opportunit\u00e9 de faire du sensationnel est trop belle au grand dam de sa productrice qui souhaiterait d\u2019abord effectuer des recoupements avant d\u2019affoler ses auditeurs.<\/p>\n

Mais au fur et \u00e0 mesure des recherches effectu\u00e9es par Laurel-Ann et des appels re\u00e7us \u00e0 la station, il appara\u00eet qu\u2019une \u00e9trange et tr\u00e8s contagieuse maladie transforme les habitants de Pontypool en meurtriers. Paniqu\u00e9s, reclus dans leur studio de radio, nos trois h\u00e9ros vont devoir chercher par quels moyens se propage cette myst\u00e9rieuse infection pour ne pas \u00eatre \u00e0 leur tour contamin\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme une r\u00e9v\u00e9lation au Festival de Sitges 2009<\/i>, PONTYPOOL a \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu \u00e0 tort comme un pur film de zombies. Un bon film d\u2019horreur n\u2019a nul besoin de fournir des effets sp\u00e9ciaux visuels charg\u00e9s pour \u00eatre efficace et il s\u2019agit ici davantage d\u2019un film d\u2019ambiance qu\u2019un film d\u00e9monstratif exposant de la bidoche et de la cervelle \u00e0 tour de bras.<\/p>\n

Le r\u00e9alisateur Bruce McDonald<\/b> filme brillamment la peur et la m\u00e9fiance qui s\u2019emparent de chacun des protagonistes au fur et \u00e0 mesure des r\u00e9v\u00e9lations. Ainsi, les propos tenus au t\u00e9l\u00e9phone par Ken Loney et l\u2019\u00e9coute des rapports de la police locale lu \u00e0 haute voix sur les ondes suffisent pour entretenir notre angoisse. L\u2019effroi na\u00eet de cette sollicitation permanente de notre imaginaire ce qui dans un paysage cin\u00e9matographique devenu toujours plus explicite est plut\u00f4t rafra\u00eechissant.<\/p>\n

On pourrait qualifier PONTYPOOL de film d\u2019horreur old-shool avec ses th\u00e9matiques emprunt\u00e9s \u00e0 CARNIVAL OF SOULS de Herk Harvey, <\/b>notamment pour la sc\u00e8ne de la voiture, \u00e0 THE THING de John Carpenter<\/b> et \u00e0 NIGHT OF LIVING DEAD de George Romero<\/b>. Si on ajoute \u00e0 cela le contexte radiophonique qui renvoie \u00e0 la LA GUERRE DES MONDES lue par Orson Welles<\/b>, vous obtenez un bon vieux huis clos oppressant o\u00f9 se joue ni plus ni moins le devenir de l\u2019humanit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Cela dit m\u00eame si ces nombreuses qualit\u00e9s font que PONTYPOOL n\u2019est pas qu\u2019un film d\u2019horreur de plus, il n\u2019est pas pour autant exempt de d\u00e9fauts. D\u00e9s lors, on notera un ralentissement dans l\u2019acte final lorsque nous sera enfin r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 la nature unique du virus. Cependant, il faut bien admettre qu\u2019il est difficile de ne pas \u00eatre totalement conquis par cet \u00e9trange film semblable \u00e0 un \u00e9pisode de LA QUATRI\u00c8ME DIMENSION.<\/p>\n

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Cinqui\u00e8me film en lice pour le Prix du nouveau genre 2010 de L\u2019Etrange Festival, PONTYPOOL est le premier volet d\u2019une trilogie \u00e9crite par Tony Burgess qui a pour l\u2019occasion adapt\u00e9 ses \u00e9crits pour ce long-m\u00e9trage. Pourvu d\u2019un script bavard et d\u2019un faible budget, son action se d\u00e9roule principalement dans une ancienne \u00e9glise transform\u00e9e en station […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_text_color":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7407],"tags":[7285],"class_list":{"0":"post-13845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-deviant-zone","8":"tag-cinema","9":"cs-entry","10":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shunrize.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/pontypool.jpg?fit=628%2C356&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14007,"url":"https:\/\/shunrize.com\/blog\/palmares-du-16e-etrange-festival\/","url_meta":{"origin":13845,"position":0},"title":"L’Etrange Festival 2010 – Palmar\u00e8s","author":"Val\u00e9rie Denise","date":"12\/09\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Depuis le 3 septembre dernier, les amateurs de cin\u00e9ma de genre ont pu d\u00e9couvrir dans le cadre de la 16 \u00e9dition de L'Etrange Festival de nombreux films en avant-premi\u00e8res et quelques p\u00e9pites jamais diffus\u00e9es sur nos \u00e9crans. 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