Tuesday morning, "The Secret of the Unicorn" was screened for the first time in Belgium, the Grand Hall of the El Dorado-De Brouckère UGC in Brussels. We left the room her eyes sparkling like a crystal ball.
The film opens with images of Hergé in Old Market. The artist is at work. It paints a picture of a well-known place on which the viewer sees only the knickers ... When he finished the work tends to Tintin, the table has the clean lines of a comic book! Beyond the moving tribute to the creator of Tintin, this scheme allows the hero to free themselves of the boxes and to exist for itself: another adventure can begin, the one that Spielberg has imagined for him ...
On screen, Tintin will be a real personality. Milou does not need to speak to save his master when he is in danger. Captain Haddock has all the true drink-free thirst-but it's the fault of his ancestor, so chivalrous he put his descendants complexes become alcoholics from father to son! Beyond these familiar details, expect to be surprised. The director of Indiana Jones takes his freedom from the original work: the castle is in ruins and Moulinsart Mr. Sakharine, the collector of scale models, cache more dangerous than a wicked Dr. Müller ... The Castafiore that n ' had nothing to do with it, is the guest of Omar Ben Salaad and shows real talent as a singer. Only the captain and Snowy to remain deaf to his vocals. Beyond the scenario, the interpretation that convinced us. Andy Serkis managed a great number of actors in Captain Haddock. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost make Dupond Dupont-in "no sense" very British. Daniel Craig Sakharine transcends into a character so impressive that one wonders why Hergé did not dig further. Spielberg even managed to give soul to Nestor! The sets are amazing and nods to the comic book of rare relevance.
With the Secret of the Unicorn, which embodies - finally - his old dream Tintin, Steven Spielberg signs and succeeded with flying colors a great adventure film popular in the best sense of the word. Rhythmic, colorful, full of relief, the film alternates between the story and the next set of tracks with a background often removed, light, sometimes even hilarious.
In presenting thirty years ago now, the first installment of the adventures of Indiana Jones as Steven Spielberg did, passing in Europe, the discovery of the teeming world of Hergé.
This film, how to deny, summarizes thirty years of love, and thirty years of passion for a rogue, that of Spielberg for the world of Tintin. With a happy child who feels at once - no doubt on the fairness of the process. And apart from a couple of minutes, where the director of ET may be unnecessarily sacrificed to the law of waterfalls dear to Hollywood, we will not try to nit: the enthusiasm and spirit of childhood, inseparable from the Spielberg film, we contaminate here without reservations. The film, which Spielberg will present in Brussels Saturday, October 22, will be on our screens 26.
