21 Grammes - Alejandro González Iñarritu

Un accident aux conséquences tragiques liera de façon inextricable les destins d'une jeune mère de famille, d'un professeur de mathématiques atteint d'une grave maladie et d'un ex-repris de justice qui cherche désormais à venir en aide aux jeunes délinquants.

1ères séances : "21 grammes" fait le poids !

Business, 21 Janvier 2004

Le long-métrage "21 grammes", porté par Sean Penn, réalise le meilleur démarrage sur Paris ce 21 janvier avec 1 885 entrées, devant "Le Sourire de Mona Lisa" et "Massacre à la tronçonneuse".

Débuts franciliens tout sauf légers pour 21 grammes. Le long-métrage de Alejandro González Iñarritu (Amours chiennes), porté notamment par Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro et Charlotte Gainsbourg, réalise le meilleur démarrage de ce mercredi 21 janvier sur Paris et sa périphérie avec 1 885 entrées sur 25 copies. Il est suivi d'une courte tête par Julia Roberts et son Sourire de Mona Lisa, qui attirent 1 808 spectateurs dans 21 salles. Le film d'horreur Massacre à la tronçonneuse, remake du classique de l'horreur réalisé par Tobe Hooper en 1974, complète le podium avec 633 entrées sur un parc de 16 copies.

La suite du classement est plus confidentielle, marquée notamment par les 98 entrées de Je t'aime, je t'adore dans 5 salles et les 69 spectateurs de Père, fils, Prix de la Critique internationale au Festival de Cannes 2003, réunis sur un parc de 3 copies. Les films policiers japonais Dead or alive 2 et Dead or alive 3, projetés consécutivement dans un même programme, séduisent quant à eux 38 spectateurs dans une seule salle de la capitale.

 

21 Grams is the new film from the Academy Award-nominated director of Amores perros, Alejandro González Iñarritu. It is a story of hope and humanity, of resilience and survival. Whether you fear death or not, it comes, and at that moment your body becomes twenty-one grams lighter. Is it a person's soul that constitutes those twenty-one grams? Is that weight carried by those who survive us? The lead actors in 21 Grams are three-time Academy Award nominee Sean Penn, Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro, and award-winning actress Naomi Watts. The actors were all honored at the film's world premiere at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, where Sean Penn won Best Actor and Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts earned the Audience Awards for Best Actor and Actress. 21 Grams, written by Guillermo Arriaga (Amores perros), explores the emotionally and physically charged existences of three people over a period of several months. An accident unexpectedly throws their lives and destinies together, in a story that will take them to the heights of love, the depths of revenge, and the promise of redemption. College professor Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) and his wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their union precariously balanced between life and death. He is mortally ill and awaiting a heart transplant, while she hopes to become pregnant with his child through artificial insemination. Cristina Peck (Naomi Watts), having matured since her reckless past, is a beloved older sister to Claudia (Clea DuVall), a good wife to Michael (Danny Huston) and loving mother to two little girls. Her family radiates hope and joy. Much farther down the socioeconomic scale, ex-con Jack Jordan (Benicio Del Toro) and his wife Marianne (Melissa Leo) struggle to provide for their two children while Jack reaffirms his commitment to religion. A tragic accident that claims several lives places these couples in each other's orbit. In the aftermath, Paul confronts his own mortality, Cristina takes action to come to terms with her present and perhaps her future, and Jack's faith is put to the test. If spiritual equilibrium is to be regained by any one of them, it could come at great cost to the others. Yet the will to live, and the instinct to reach out to another person for support, remains ever-present among them all.

Casting

Naomi Watts ..... Cristina Peck
Sean Penn ..... Paul Rivers
Benicio del Toro ..... Jack Jordan
Clea DuVall ..... Claudia
Charlotte Gainsbourg ..... Mary Rivers
Melissa Leo ..... Marianne Jordan
Danny Huston ..... Michael
Carly Nahon ..... Cathy
Claire Pakis ..... Laura
Nick Nichols ..... Boy
John Rubinstein ..... Gynecologist
Eddie Marsan ..... Reverend John
Loyd Keith Salter ..... Fat Man
Antef A. Harris ..... Basketball Guy
Marc Musso ..... Freddy
Teresa Delgado
Terry Draper
Tony Guyton
Wayne E. Beech Jr
Keith Lamont
Johnson David
Chattam John
Boyd West
Jeff Schmidt
Tony Vaughn
Paul Calderon