Do not shrink advertising blustering proclaiming "the favorite for the Oscars " or sour critics who describe him as "machine Oscars" . About the gear and simplistic for a feature film that is not expected and remains as one of the most gratifying pleasures spectator earlier this year.
Unable to properly pronounce a speech at every public appearance, the Duke of York (Colin Firth), second son of King Geoges V, suffers from severe speech problems. His wife (Helena Bonham Carter) puts him in connection with a speech therapist original and offbeat, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) who will try to heal. But the Duke, following the abdication of his elder brother, became King George VI. And on the eve of global conflict in which Hitler sows terror, the monarch will have to reassure the nation and thus overcome the handicap.
best known for his films for British television, Tom Hooper has been in the hands of a goldsmith wrote a screenplay by Michael Seidler , himself a stutterer as a child. The story, which mixes the Great and Small (hitherto little known), is a remarkable character study which will establish an ambivalent relationship between the king and his healer. Their first meeting, particularly delectable, sees two men confront everything seems to oppose: one can not bear his condition monarchical stifled by an authoritarian father, the other is a failed actor who sees in her therapy a chance to speak. Two temperaments that will unite with a very clever reversal of roles. To overcome the problem, Logue is for the Duke by calling Bertie, a nickname that only family members could give him. And when the king, who doubt controversial methods Logue, claims to know the remedy through the advice of doctors of the court, the therapist replies that they are fools. The Duke insists, stating that they are ennobled. Logue and close the bank with this memorable reply : "Well, it formalizes the thing".
the humor that runs throughout the film, is wonderfully played by the great Geoffrey Rush. The actor, a little behind in recent years, brings all his malice and mischievousness in the character. His presence alone is the great advantage of the feature film in which all the actors shine, starting with Colin Firth who never draws his role on performance and the discreet and spicy Helena Bonham Carter.
Far from sticking to the script flatly, Tom Hooper insufler to feature a style that blends elegance to the aesthetic, combining the unframed closeups sumptuous shots through the royal residences. Away from academic through selection of designs as bold as Logue's office that you'd come out of a painting by Bacon, he even allows a sequence almost fantastic, in a park, where light invasive seems to radiate both characters while the therapist seeks to shake up his "patient" . A truth that the monarch will not want to see but which will eventually burst.
Although the long-awaited grand finale seems strangely agreed and uninspired, the set is a real success and restores faith in a cinema classic smart dust knows the story.
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