Ed, la trentaine, est com\u00e9dien de stand up charmant, spirituel et perdu. Essayant de se faire une place dans le monde de la com\u00e9die, la nuit, il joue dans les petites salles des pubs londoniens ; le jour, il travaille dans un centre d\u2019appels. Il vit avec \u00c9lise, magnifique chanteuse fran\u00e7aise avec laquelle il entretient une relation d\u2019amour asexu\u00e9. Une nuit, dans un bus, Ed rencontre Nathan, un jeune artiste noir. Ils d\u00e9butent une aventure passionnelle\u2026<\/p>\n
Apr\u00e8s avoir r\u00e9alis\u00e9 un court m\u00e9trage en 2006 dans le cadre d\u2019un projet t\u00e9l\u00e9visuel, le r\u00e9alisateur isra\u00e9lien Tom Shkolnik<\/b> (\u00abIn the Dark\u00bb) nous propose son premier long-m\u00e9trage une br\u00e8ve incursion dans le quotidien d\u2019un com\u00e9dien de stand-up londonien en proie \u00e0 une crise existentielle.<\/p>\n
Soyez pr\u00e9venu, contrairement \u00e0 ce que laisse sugg\u00e9rer la fiche et le titre du film, il ne s\u2019agit pas du tout d\u2019une com\u00e9die, bien au contraire. Si vous vous attendiez \u00e0 quelque chose dans la veine de \u00abThe King of Comedy\u00bb de Martin Scorsese<\/b>, vous serez forc\u00e9ment d\u00e9\u00e7u car ce r\u00e9cit dramatique ne laisse pas vraiment la place au rire et ne met pas en valeur la passion qui anime notre h\u00e9ros.<\/p>\n
S\u00e9lectionn\u00e9 pour la comp\u00e9tition officielle du Festival de Cin\u00e9ma Europ\u00e9en des Arcs, \u00abThe Comedian\u00bb laisse une tr\u00e8s grande place \u00e0 l\u2019improvisation et on a vraiment beaucoup de mal \u00e0 d\u00e9celer ce qu\u2019il tente de nous dire.<\/p>\n
R\u00e9alis\u00e9 sans script, ce parti pris artistique donne lieu parfois \u00e0 des sc\u00e8nes brouillonnes, tandis que les dialogues semblent maladroits et \u00e9tir\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Fort, heureusement, les performances des acteurs sont toutes justes et sauvent un peu cet ensemble chaotique. Ici, Edward Hogg<\/b> (\u00abMisfits\u00bb, \u00abAnonymous\u00bb) qui poss\u00e8de un charme fou r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 apporter beaucoup de sympathie \u00e0 ce personnage central pour le moins antipathique et \u00e9gocentrique. \u00c9paul\u00e9 notamment par le surprenant Nathan Stewart-Jarrett<\/b> (\u00abMisfits\u00bb), ils apportent ainsi une v\u00e9ritable profondeur et de l\u2019\u00e9motion.<\/p>\n
Un m\u00e9trage plut\u00f4t confus nous laisse quelque peu sur notre faim.<\/p>\n
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