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The Eternals, Chloe Zao's mystical offering to the Marvel universe

2021-11-03T05:36:30.821Z


CRITICAL - The Oscar-winning Nomadland director delivers a feature film of great visual mastery and humanistic verve for Disney.


Many people already consider

The Eternals

, a new Marvel blockbuster, as the ugly duckling of the super-heroic firm worn by the late Stan Lee (1922-2018).

Everything is indeed a little unusual on this feature film with a colossal budget, whose headliners are Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit Harrington or Richard Madden.

Above all, what irritates superhero lovers and intrigues specialists is the choice of director Chloé Zhao, 39, Chinese filmmaker who

won

this year's Oscar for her film

Nomadland

.

Read also Chloé Zhao, the director who shakes up superheroes

But what the devil has such an intellectual filmmaker doing (described as a

“traitor”

by her native country after taking a political stand against the Chinese government), having studied political science at Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

It turns out that it was she herself who chose to offer her services to Kevin Feige, the big boss of Marvel Studios.

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Source: lefigaro

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