What would Camille Claudel have been without Rodin, Celine Dion without René and Mireille Mathieu without Johnny Stark?
The cinema brought its answer
(“not much”)
for the first two.
He offers the same about Elvis Presley and his impresario, a stateless man from Holland calling himself Colonel Parker when he discovers a 19-year-old kid in the South singing and moving on stage like a black man.
We know the rest.
To discover
Find all the results of the legislative elections
Discover the “Best of the Goncourt Prize” collection
In
Elvis
(in theaters June 22), a big spectacular production, lively, exuberant, shimmering, rhythmic like a piece of Fats Domino, the best moments are shared between the incredible performances of Austin Butler in the skin of the King and the scenes where the man in the shadows appears then disappears (played by a pot-bellied Tom Hanks, almost bald and a frenzied cigar smoker).
Read also
Cannes Film Festival: our review of Elvis, rock and shock
Indispensable and detestable, odious and visionary, manufacturing the success and the downfall of the interpreter of
Blue Suede Shoes,
whom he literally locked up in a casino in Las Vegas…
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 54% left to discover.
Cultivating your freedom is cultivating your curiosity.
Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed?
Login
