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© DR -Gif "Control your emotions"
29/10/2012 04:05
Ce que j'ai tenté de faire hier,lorsqu'une GROSSE panne de secteur
dûe aux rafales non stop qui soufflaient depuis la veille,est survenue vers 5h00 du mat...
je venais de m'y mettre depuis à peine 10mn..AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGH !
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994
29/10/2012 06:18
Paul Newman sur l'affiche U.S
Un film que j'ai en DVD,regardé Vendredi soir pour la..nième fois. Vraiment sympa!
Un homme presque parfait (Nobody's Fool)
est un film américain réalisé par Robert Benton, sorti en 1994.
Résumé 1
Sully est un éternel insoumis qui a passé sa vie à fuir les responsabilités. Par haine de son père, il a laissé à l'abandon l'antique maison familiale pour élire domicile chez son ancienne institutrice, charmante vieille dame dont il est désormais le réconfort moral.
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p2
29/10/2012 06:58
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La critique de Roger Ebert
January 13, 1995 |
Sitting in the dark, watching Paul Newman's performance in "Nobody's Fool," I jotted down the word "humility." It seemed to be the word that fit best. He is on screen in virtually every scene of the movie, playing a 60-year-old man named Sully who has spent most of his life drinking beer and avoiding responsibility and who now is thrown into daily contact with a son who doesn't trust him and a grandson who doesn't know him. Sully decides to change - or has change thrust upon him, which amounts to about the same thing.
I have been watching Paul Newman in movies all of my life. He is so much a part of the landscape of modern American film that sometimes he is almost invisible: He does what he does with simplicity, grace and a minimum of fuss, and so I wonder if people even realize what a fine actor he is. We remember the characters instead: Fast Eddie Felson (l'Arnaqueur), Hud, Butch Cassidy, the alcoholic lawyer in "The Verdict". . .
In "Nobody's Fool," Newman plays another heavy drinker, the kind of feckless free spirit you occasionally meet: A man who has never grown up, who despite his carefree disregard for the ordinary requirements of society, remains somehow so charming and innocent that people forgive him his sins. He has found an economic niche that supports his lifestyle. He does construction work for a local builder. He rents a room upstairs in the house of his eighth grade teacher.
Of course freedom has a price. He has long ago departed from his marriage, and his son has grown up almost a stranger to him. His "family," such as it is, consists of the regulars in a neighborhood bar: An old lawyer, a barmaid, a co-worker who is mentally retarded.At one point in the film he talks about his ex-wife with his son, who says, "Mom's biggest fear is that your life was fun." To which he can honestly reply: "Tell her not to worry." Sully works on and off for a local contractor named Carl Roebuck (Bruce Willis). And he has been conducting a sort of arm's-length flirtation with Carl's wife, Toby (Melanie Griffith).
It involves a lot of wishful thinking on both sides. Sully's best friend is Rub Squeers (Pruitt Taylor Vince), a mildly retarded local handyman who helps out on jobs. One day the even pattern of Sully's life is interrupted when his son, Peter (Dylan Walsh) comes back into his life.Peter is a college teacher. His marriage is breaking up, and he returns to his old hometown with one of his two children (his wife keeps the other, for the time being). He has no clear plan.Perhaps he will work with Sully on construction for a time.
This does not sit well with Rub, who feels rejected, and quits so he can sit on his steps and sulk.It is the middle of the winter in the small town, which seems almost uninhabited (director Robert Benton wisely focuses on the foreground characters in his story, and mostly avoids extras). Sully is engaged in a long-running duel with Roebuck, involving the theft and recapture of a snow blower. Otherwise, with work scarce, he hangs out in the local saloon with his drinking buddy Wirf (Gene Saks), who is also his lawyer in a seemingly endless string of cases involving workmen's compensation and traffic violations.
In a sense, not much happens in "Nobody's Fool." In another sense, great changes take place. Sully is a man who has put his truly important issues on hold for a very long time, while making a cause out of trivial issues. He will, for example, go to great lengths to steal the snow blower, or to score points off a dim-witted local policeman. But now, with Peter back, he finds that all the big issues of his early life - his marriage, his family - are staring him in the face again.
Above all, he is challenged to be responsible to his young grandson as he never was to the boy's father.The story, written by Benton from the novel by Richard Russo, unfolds according to its own logic. It has the patience to listen to silences. Above all, it benefits from the confidence of Newman's performance. He is not hammering the points home, not marching from one big scene to another, but simply living on the screen, and if the film's last shot is of Sully sound asleep, by then we understand why he has earned his rest.The best moments in the film are based on relationships.
Sully is quite fond,for example, of his landlady,old Miss Beryl(Jessica Tandy, in one of her last performances) He has a bantering relationship with Wirf, the lawyer who seemingly has only this one fool for a client. His pipe dreams with Toby, which involve the two of them flying off to Hawaii, are important to him, because he is a romantic - and to her, because she trusts his goodness, and is fed up with her husband. And there are other characters, including a woman bartender and the local police chief, who help create the character of Sully by the way they respond to him.
At the center is Paul Newman. He is an exact contemporary of Marlon Brando, who is said to have invented modern film acting. Yes, and he probably did, stripping it of the mannerisms of the past and creating a hypercharged realism. Like Brando, Newman studied the Method. Like Brando, Newman looked good in an undershirt.
Unlike Brando, Newman went on to study life, and so while Brando broke through and then wandered aimlessly in inexplicable roles (especially since "The Godfather" 20 years ago), Newman continued to work on his craft. Having seen what he could put in, he went on to see what he could leave out. In "Nobody's Fool," he has it just about figured out.
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p3
29/10/2012 07:06
Mélanie Griffith & Paul Newman,une certaine complicité
Ce bout de mach...de résumé appellé pompeusement "Synopsis" est tout ce que j'ai trouvé sur le site habituel...et sans la moindre photo...faut dire qu'il y a sans doute trop de vieux dans ce film et les vieux...ça intéresse qui ?
Résumé 2
A 60 ans, Sully, nonchalant, gueulard et méprisant, a la fâcheuse impression d'avoir raté une vie qu'il partage entre petits boulots et parties de poker alcoolisées. Mais il voit son existence changer le jour du retour de son fils Peter qu'il a toujours délaissé...
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La critique des spectateurs Imdb
classic Newman
Author: Robert D. Ruplenas
9 July 1999
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Newman uses a lifetime of acting experience to give a burnished, affecting portrayal of Sully, a dysfunctional father and husband who is basically well-intentioned but has never been able to connect with anyone or live up to his responsibilities. His family arrives back in town and he begins the long-delayed process of reconnecting with his son and grandsons.
Like "Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" of a few years back, this is a low-key, slice-of-life drama, a type of film that can be deadly dull in the wrong hands but which in this case, under director Robert Benton's guidance, and aided by a fabulous script and wonderful cast, is totally engrossing.The script is spare and lean and all the more effective for that. It never goes for heavy emotional effects, but makes its points in a powerfully understated way. The many moments of humor stand out in high relief.
Excellent acting all around (this was one of Jessica Tandy's last films; also in the cast are Bruce Willis, a better actor than he is generally given credit for, and Melanie Griffith). The feeling of life in a down-at-the-heels northeast U.S. town in midwinter is superbly brought across; the movie has a real 'lived-in' atmosphere.
A definite A+.
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newman's best
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Author: bob wisener from United States
23 July 2004
It's next to impossible not to like Paul Newman on screen, so it's a tremendous active achievement when he plays an unsympathetic character. Sully, his greatest role since "Hud," depicts Newman at his worst and thus at his best. Tom Hanks was remarkable in "Forrest Gump," but Newman deserved the 1994 Best Actor Oscar for "Nobody's Fool." The movie's greatness lies in the relationships between Newman and two other characters. Jessica Tandy is closer to Newman than her own son, played by Josef Sommer (who it's revealed is a white-collar crook and thus a bigger scoundrel than Sully, whom he despises).
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Likewise, Newman connects easier with co-worker Rub than with his own son, who can't see beyond his father's betrayal during a wayward youth. The reconciliation between Sully and Rub on a back porch may be the greatest of Newman's career ("Peter's my son. You're my best friend," Sully says in terms that even the slow-thinking Rub can grasp instantly). Robert Benton, who also directed the heartwarming "Places in the Heart," gives us an equally personal, but more disciplined work.
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He assembles A-list performers (Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith are magnetic on screen), gives them marvelous dialogue ("You're a man among men," Griffith tells Newman twice in the movie but with different meanings) and melts our hearts. But acting honors go to Newman, whose complex Sully becomes if not loving, then at least a responsible, functioning, vital member of the human race. And, in the end, nobody's fool.
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© DR -NOBODYS FOOL (Un homme presque parfait) -1994 p4
29/10/2012 07:14
Résumé Wiki
Sully est le rebelle de North Bath, la bourgade paisible de l'Etat de New York où il vit. Alerte sexagénaire,(quelle condescendance dans cette expression !) il s'est installé depuis son divorce chez son ancienne institutrice, mademoiselle Beryl (Jessica Tandy).Il exécute des petits boulots pour le compte de Carl Roebuck,(Bruce Willis) avec lequel il se dispute fréquemment, et ignore à peu près complètement son fils, Peter, lui-même père de deux petits garcons.
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Le hasard se charge de réunir le grand-père indigne et le dernier rejeton de la lignée, un enfant rêveur et timide. Plus touché qu'il ne veut le laisser paraître,Sully tente d'aider le gamin à surmonter ses inhibitions et se prend au passage d'une solide affection pour lui.Inquiet, il se demande s'il va devoir renoncer à la légèreté qui, depuis si longtemps, gouverne sa vie…
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Author: Rick Blaine from London
7 December 2001
In my eyes quite possibly one of the most perfect movies ever made with a stellar cast acting as you would expect them to when you want them to and acting completely out of character when you'd least expect it and enjoy it most. Look for a brilliant Melanie Griffith, a brilliant Bruce Willis, a fantastic ensemble all around, and at the centre the wonderful Jessica Tandy and the immortal Paul Newman in the role of his life. There is a point to this movie, painted in such subtle brush strokes that you just have to exclude all else and - what can I say - enjoy it, and let it warm your heart.
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