Last November, the muse of American independent cinema Greta Gerwig, several times nominated for the Oscars, confided that she feared that
Barbie
, her improbable film dedicated to Mattel's blonde doll, would sign the death warrant of her career.
Judging by the glowing reactions to the first trailer for the project, which features Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, the director of
Lady Bird
can keep faith in her talent.
From Twitter to the titles of the specialized Hollywood press, we salute an offbeat and ironic trailer that allows itself references to the great master Stanley Kubrick and his classic,
A Space Odyssey
.
Announced in theaters in July 2023, Barbie tells the adventures of a Barbie (Robbie) and a Ken (Gosling) stuck in the real world.
Not sure that their colorful and fuchsia wardrobe prepares them for this chaos.
In this first trailer, designed as a parody of a sociological documentary, a narrator exalts the "natural" bond of little girls to their dolls.
But the traditional infants and newborns have to worry about the arrival in town of the sculptural and giant Barbie.
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A screenplay co-written with Noah Baumbach
Supported in the script by her fellow filmmaker Noah Baumbach (
Marriage Story
), Greta Gerwig promised an “ambitious tale for young children that will go against the expectations of the public”.
The cast that the American director to line up is already dizzying: Will Ferrell,
Sex Education
revelations Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells and Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan (
The Bridgerton Chronicle)
, Emerald Fennell (Oscar winner for
Promising Young Woman
), Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Marvel defector Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Issa Rae (
Insecure).
Before the arrival of Greta Gerwig on the project, which had been in development for several years, Amy Schumer then Anne Hathaway had been approached to embody the emblematic toy.
