Après l’échec critique du film de 2000, dans lequel Jeremy Irons jouait un mage avec un penchant plus que marqué pour le dramatique, on pouvait s’attendre au pire pour cette nouvelle adaptation signée John Francis Daley et Jonathan Goldstein. Mais le résultat est une déclaration d’amour au jeu d’origine, qui réussit à ne pas perdre ceux qui ne connaîtraient pas les mécanismes complexes des fiches personnage et des lancers de dés 20.
Depuis Arnaques, Crime et Botanique (1998), son premier film, on connaît le cocktail Guy Ritchie : histoire de gangsters chics, scènes de bagarre très soignées, héros virils et charismatiques, humour british, casting cinq étoiles… The Gentlemen confirme à nouveau la recette du cinéaste, souvent cuisinée avec réussite bien qu’elle ne résiste pas toujours à l’usure, et signale un retour aux sources après ses deux précédents films, Le Roi Arthur (2017) et Aladdin (2019).
Murray Gold is a 5 time BAFTA nominated British composer. He has worked on shows such as Vanity Fair, Casanova and Queer as Folk. He is mostly known for his work on Doctor Who since it was renewed in 2005 and he only recently announced that he would be stepping down as the composer of the show. He is already back with new music for A Very English Scandal, the new tv series, about Jeremy Thorpe’s trial, directed by Stephen Frears. The show was premiered in France at the festival Séries Series and we had the great pleasure of sitting down with Murray Gold.
You’ve worked on Doctor Who for thirteen years, how did you manage to keep it fresh and come up with new ideas?
I don’t know, it’s like when you wake up in the morning, you talk to your friends on the phone and you have new funny things to say. I get really excited just sitting down and writing music for a new episode. Every episode was done so fast that it didn’t get time to really get stale you know? Even if it was 13 years on the same show, each episode was so different and so quick that I just had a lot of fun writing all that music.
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