{"id":219739,"date":"2026-08-20T10:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/219739\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:06:19","slug":"the-birthday-party-willem-dafoe-ne-demerite-pas-dans-ce-role-inspire-du-milliardaire-grec-aristote-onassis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/219739\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0The Birthday Party\u00a0\u00bb, Willem Dafoe ne d\u00e9m\u00e9rite pas dans ce r\u00f4le inspir\u00e9 du milliardaire grec Aristote Onassis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le cin\u00e9aste espagnol Miguel Angel Jimenez choisit de traiter \u00ab\u00a0la b\u00eate\u00a0\u00bb sous l’angle de son rapport avec sa fille Sophia. Dans le regard sombre de l’actrice su\u00e9doise Victoria Carmen Sonne, on reconna\u00eet Christina Onassis, fille unique du magnat morte pr\u00e9matur\u00e9ment \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 37 ans.<\/p>\n

Jet-set et sirtaki<\/p>\n

On suit donc, le temps d’un huis clos sur une \u00eele grecque appartenant \u00e0 Marcos (le film a \u00e9t\u00e9 tourn\u00e9 \u00e0 Corfou sur la mer Ionienne, quand Onassis poss\u00e9dait \u00e0 lui seul l’\u00eele de Skorpios, aujourd’hui revendue \u00e0 la fille d’un oligarque russe), la soir\u00e9e d’anniversaire que celui-ci r\u00e9serve \u00e0 sa fille Sophia pour ses 25 ans.<\/p>\n

D\u00e9butant sur un air d’op\u00e9ra (allusion feutr\u00e9e \u00e0 Maria Callas), int\u00e9grant de multiples anecdotes r\u00e9elles \u2013 l’ancienne femme de chambre de La Callas, les paparazzis qui r\u00f4dent \u2013, le film restitue classieusement l’atmosph\u00e8re d\u00e9cadente de la jet-set des ann\u00e9es 1970 dans une ambiance qui rappelle le cin\u00e9ma de Paolo Sorrentino (dont une sc\u00e8ne assez grandiose avec Willem Dafoe dansant le sirtaki ou donnant ses ordres cul nu). Mais il c\u00e8de trop facilement \u00e0 la fascination (voire \u00e0 la complaisance) pour Marcos, p\u00e8re parano et totalitaire pr\u00eat \u00e0 tout pour contr\u00f4ler la f\u00e9condit\u00e9 de sa fille afin que sa fortune ne lui \u00e9chappe pas.<\/p>\n

Empoignant le personnage par les cornes, Dafoe ne d\u00e9m\u00e9rite pas, mais on reste dubitatif devant la romantisation du c\u00f4t\u00e9 destructeur de Marcos avec lequel le film s’arrange. Pas s\u00fbr que le montrer face \u00e0 la M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e r\u00e9citer les couplets du gospel \u00ab\u00a0Sinner Man\u00a0\u00bb (le p\u00e9cheur) en guise de mea culpa soit suffisant pour l’absoudre.<\/p>\n

\"The\"TheEmpoignant le personnage par les cornes, Dafoe ne d\u00e9m\u00e9rite pas, mais on reste dubitatif devant la romantisation du c\u00f4t\u00e9 destructeur de Marcos. \u00a9Paradiso\"The\"The \u00a9ParadisoThe Birthday Party<\/p>\n

Drame De Miguel Angel Jimenez Sc\u00e9nario Miguel Angel Jimenez, Giorgos Karnavas et Nicos Panayotopoulos (d’apr\u00e8s la pi\u00e8ce de Panos Karnezis) Photographie Gris Jordana Montage Nacho Ruiz Capillas Avec Willem Dafoe, Victoria Carmen Sonne, Emma Suarez\u2026 Dur\u00e9e 1h43<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le cin\u00e9aste espagnol Miguel Angel Jimenez choisit de traiter \u00ab\u00a0la b\u00eate\u00a0\u00bb sous l’angle de son rapport avec sa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[102],"tags":[961,12,13,18,17,129,128,198,2182,3027,96,95,1967,37837,3031,964,934,26784,3032,936,967,968,1429,109,1430,4628,4899,20023,4900,4630,2266,1439],"class_list":["post-219739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-people","tag-adult","tag-be","tag-be-fr","tag-belgique","tag-belgium","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-communication","tag-crime","tag-crowd","tag-divertissement","tag-entertainment","tag-female","tag-gesturing","tag-group-of-people","tag-indoors","tag-justice","tag-justicie","tag-large-group-of-people","tag-law","tag-mature-adult","tag-men","tag-occupation","tag-people","tag-person","tag-standing","tag-talking","tag-three-quarter-length","tag-togetherness","tag-waist-up","tag-women","tag-young-adult"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be_fr\/117127281611986564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}