Outrage de Takeshi Kitano

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Here’s the synopsis, which hasn’t changed since January:
The story begins with Sekiuchi (Kitamura Soichiro), boss of the Sannokai, a huge organised crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato (Miura Tomokazu) and right-hand man Ikemoto (Kunimura Jun), head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo (Beat Takeshi), who runs his own crew. The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo’s lap…

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Trailer

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/14/outrage-trailer-a-longer-look-at-takeshi-kitanos-next/

Premières critiques de Cannes :

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And according to both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, return-to-form it is:

Rob Nelson (Variety) observes that "While erstwhile king of yakuza epics Takeshi Kitano doesn't try to do much new in "Outrage" ... the results are so visually stunning, why quibble?" Nelson goes on to admit that the "philosophical explorations of violence and its consequences, distinguishing features of Kitano's '90s work in the yakuza genre, are essentially nowhere to be found here," but that "the director's control over the narrative is drum-tight."

Maggie Lee (Hollywood Reporter) basically agrees, claiming that "Outrage" is "As violent, amoral and misanthropic as a Jacobean play." In fact, she thinks it's "arguably his best film in a decade." Lee warns that "Commercially, the screenplay's sprawling structure and absence of traditional, balletic showdowns might not satisfy mainstream appetites," but reassures that "individual nerve-tingling scenes of violence will make the film reach beyond Kitano's art house admirers to lovers of genre and noir films."

Considerably less enthused is In Contention's Guy Lodge, who gives the film 2 stars out of 4: "Takeshi Kitano’s more excitable fans may thrill to the director-star’s blood-saturated return to the yakuza genre, but more casual admirers will likely be left nonplussed by this thin, obstinately single-minded shoot ‘em up. Make that shoot/stab/sever/strangle/slice/garrotte ‘em up, given that Takeshi’s chief interest in this scarcely plotted film is finding ever more laborious, if frequently innovative, ways to slaughter any gangster standing between the middle-aged heavy (played by Takeshi himself) and … well, let’s just say that the journey appears to be the destination." Ouch.

The Cannes Tweeters take Lodge's side. Well, at least the majority of the ones we follow. See: the always entertaining James Rocchi for another dissenting opinion: "Outrage: Or, Takeshi Kitano's Endless Series of Indistinguishable People Getting Shot. Blam-Blam-Blah."
So, the trades and the tweets disagree? What does it all mean? And at this point in Kitano's career, do anyone other than the constituents already on board truly care? Time will tell. Btw, here's some clips from the film.

http://theplaylistnation.blogspot.com/2010/05/cannes-buzz-takeshi-kitanos-outrage.html

moi j'ai trop envie de le voir celui-là.un Kitano quoi!!!!