The year 2020 will not have given all bad news… The film “The Prom”, on Netflix, a musical marvel, re-balances the heart.
The incredible film by Ryan Murphy ("Eat, pray, love"), in contract for five years with the American platform, delivers its last production after already three series, the impeccable "Ratched", "Hollywood" and "The Politician" .
This time, with this spectacular feature film released online this Friday, the most fashionable image genius of the moment takes on the world of musical comedy stars.
Adapted from a Broadway show (the first images of the film immerse us instantly), the project tells the story of Dee Dee Allen (Meryl Streep, perfect, as always) and Barry Glickman (James Corden, host of the show. TV show “Carpool Karaoke”), two stars of the music hall in need of popularity.
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The plot begins when the very side New York Times pillories the premiere in a scathing and hilarious line: "Seeing Dee Dee Allen's Eleanor Roosevelt croaking that heavy message about activism is like paying a bill. old drag queen to shove a starry flag coated in syrup down your throat.
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After these disastrous reviews of their last show, these two “narcissistic stars”, as journalists call them, decide to redeem a reputation by engaging in a noble fight, that of Emma (Jo Ellen Pellman), a forbidden teenager. prom at her high school in deep America because she wants to be accompanied by her girlfriend, Alyssa (Ariana DeBose).
Nicole Kidman and Jo Ellen Pellman are getting ready for the unmissable prom.
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So here are the stars as egocentric as cabotines going on a spree in a small town in Indiana, far from the luxury of palaces.
Accompanied by two second-class actors, Angie Dickinson (Nicole Kidman) and Trent Oliver (Andrew Rannells), this savage outfit is going to have to survive in hostile terrain, resulting in some hilarious situational comedy scenes.
City dwellers will also be confronted with the region's latent intolerance.
From the first images, the tone is set.
With a grandiose, flashy overture, where hundreds of actors dance and cue each other in a New York street reconstituted with seemingly limitless means.
The camera takes off in a theater that shines with a thousand lights, with an explosion of colors and fiery choreographies with hundreds of dancers.
All carried by a cast worthy of the greatest American productions.
Meryl Streep, what a cougar!
The film turns out to be an entertainment that is just as exotic and hilarious as it is political, despite some lengths.
A true hymn to tolerance… What a joy to finally see Sigourney Weaver's dream on screen in the “Ten percent” series, a love affair between Meryl Streep, flamboyant with her 71 years old and the very sexy Keegan-Michael Key, twenty years his junior.
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"If I had been told that one day, I would kiss Meryl Streep, I would have told this person to go to hell, it seemed so impossible to me", laughed the American actor, answering questions from his living room!
In exceptional context, exceptional event, exceptional promotion.
The platform organized a virtual press conference at the beginning of December, on the Zoom model (with small videoconference windows in the apartments of the stars of the casting) in which the whole team participated.
Lack of real meetings between the team and the critics.
Just to remember that we are well in 2020 ...
EDITOR'S RATING: 4/5
“The Prom”,
American musical by Ryan Murphy (2020), with Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington, Keegan-Michael Key, Andrew Rannells… 2h11.
