This Wednesday comes
Matrix Resurrections
, the fourth part of the saga of the same name, eighteen years after the last adventures of Neo.
Keenu Reaves is still there as the hero, and director Lana Wachowski is behind the camera again, but this time without her sister Lilly.
Critics, with few exceptions, are sympathetic with this
2021 Raw
Matrix
.
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Le Figaro
believes that director Lana Wachowski
"knowingly makes Matrix Resurrections an absolute romance, an almost naive hymn to the Neo-Trinity couple, and to love."
A feature film "
sometimes awkward, a bit confused in its mise en abyme, undoubtedly too aware of itself, never ceases to self-identify, yet it innovates on this aspect.
Instead of being a messianic hero liberating a humanity under the yoke of machines, Neo reinvents himself as a digital Orpheus in search of his deeply asleep Eurydice deep in the digital hells.
"
Successful renewal
In a rave review,
Les Inrocks
judges that “
this new“ Matrix ”is making a successful return to an increasingly connected and virtual world.
"An update that works according to the magazine:"
Whatever its little soft belly, as the film manages to impose, like its predecessors, prodigious visions that easily figure at the top of the basket of the great contemporary spectacular fair.
"
A return also appreciated by Liberation, which praises a “
cerebral blockbuster on digital capitalism carried by an unparalleled formal and talkative madness, fable-labyrinth of our virtual times… Twenty years after the first film, Lana Wachowski makes, without her sister, his self-analysis in the last opus of his legendary saga.
"
For France Info, “
Lana Wachowski is relaunching the machine quite well.
It renews a more refined look, deepens the feelings between Neo and Trinity, and the choice to be made between the blue pill or the red pill which determines whether or not to remain in the illusion.
The notion of "déjà vu" introduced in the second part of the saga, is also deepened.
She crosses the initiative to continue the same adventure (already seen) in this fourth film, while renewing it.
"
Wachowski's acclaimed visual style
The visual universe created in the early stages by the Wachowski sisters has since permeated pop culture as a whole. If Lana is this time alone in the direction, her style is still very appreciated by the press, like the
Dauphiné Libéré
: "
The visual revolution of Matrix, blockbuster with crazy inventiveness in 1999, has passed, but the eye is not disappointed. The extraordinary creators of the saga have lost nothing of their genius: Matrix by Lana Wachowski remains the most stylish cinematography in pop culture.
"
Jacques Mandelbaum of the newspaper
Le Monde
also salutes the visual art of the filmmaker, and speaks of a
"brilliant conceptual bluff
" about the scenario.
"
Navigating between the reset and the continuation, the fourth part of
Matrix
is as much of a visual tour de force as of the open-air psychoanalysis of its director
", details the journalist.
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Le Point
also evokes “
several scenes
[which]
bear witness to the ever-abundant surrealist creativity of Lana Wachowski.
"Journalist Philippe Guedj's long column describes a film which"
will not change cinema, but it tries.
“A film in any case superior to its predecessor.
"By showering us with information by whole terabytes,
Matrix Resurrections
could quickly cause our final dropout: thanks to a live staging, a rather elegant visual renewal and the spicy humor of the dialogues, it is fortunately the opposite. that happens.
(...)
At the end of the credits (stay well until the end!), However, the impression dominates of a fourth part which enhances the blazon of the epic.
"
Much less packed,
L'Obs
delivers a vitriolic review of this new Matrix.
“No more film noir undergrounds, make way for an open-air explosion of colors.
In the meantime, the Wachowski brothers have become sisters.
The queer and emancipatory subtext was stronger in the original than in this vaguely postmodern, ugly and opportunistic porridge, signed by Lana alone.
Resurrection?
Burial, yes, ”
laments journalist Nicolas Schaller.
