Film : Américain.
Genre : Drame.
Durée : 1h42min.
Date de Sortie :
Avec : Ashley Judd, Lynn Collins, Michael Shannon.
Réalisé par : William Friedkin.
Serveuse solitaire au passé tragique, Agnes loge dans un vieux motel et vit dans la peur de son ex-mari violent, qui vient d’être libéré sur parole. Pourtant, quand elle esquisse une tentative de romance avec Peter, un homme excentrique et instable, elle retrouve espoir jusqu’à ce que les premiers insectes arrivent...
(L'avis exprimé par les rédacteurs de cette rubrique est indépendant du travail et des choix du Jury oecuménique.)
20 mai 2006
Is this the William Friedkin who won an Oscar for The French Connection all those decades ago, then made The Exorcist ? Is this the William Friedkin who has never really matched these earlier successes ? Well, yes. And this film does not match them either. But it will have a lot of people talking.
Bug sounds like one of those B-budget science fiction and/or horror movies of the 1950s or the cut-rate animal disaster thrillers of the mid-70s. And, for a lot of the time, that really seems relevant.
While a momentary clue or two is given early, a long part of Bug is confined to a motel room in the middle of nowhere. Warning, beware the temptation to leave !
A stranger visits (Michael Shannon). He is reticent, wary of women but polite and considerate. Now for the bugs. But, better you find that out for yourselves because this is a movie that is likely to win a cult status.
The final ten minutes are definitely worth seeing, either to believe or disbelieve, and, while Michael Shannon is a good sport to undergo all the torment that he does, Ashley Judd has some of the best hysterical scenery-chewing outbursts in a long time. And what she says will make you shudder at infectious paranoia and madness.
The implications of this film may well bug you.
