Sortie cinéma impromptue : American Graffiti

Sortie cinéma le mardi 24 septembre 2024 en soirée à l'OMNIA République , pour aller voir le film "American Graffiti" de Francis Ford Coppola et George Lucas.

Les vacances se terminent. Curt, Steve, John, Laurie, Terry et tous les autres s'apprêtent à quitter la petite ville californienne de leur jeunesse pour suivre leurs études à l'université. Avec leurs belles voitures américaines, ils passent une dernière nuit sur les routes et les drive-in. Produit par Francis Ford Coppola, le film offre un premier grand rôle à Harrison Ford.

American Graffiti, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by George Lucas (1973)

American Graffiti is George Lucas’s early masterpiece. It’s a work that is easily digestible as a nostalgia piece, but that operates on a far deeper and more complex level than that. This isn’t just a slice of early 60s Americana, and this isn’t just the lead up to 1977’s Star Wars.

American Graffiti takes place in Modesto, California, in the early ‘60s, the twilight of American innocence, before drugs, Vietnam, assassination and political protest. During one night the town’s teenagers cruise the city streets in their fancy cars, fighting, dueling,arguing, falling in and out of love.

The ingenious screenplay offers up a load of wonderful characters who whirl about in ducktail haircuts and shirtwaist dresses, lost in the obscenity of American culture. Thanks to some of the most spirited, daMy dialogue, their sweetness is deliriously funny. No matter how high the dramatic stakes become, the movie never loses its sense of humor, and although it has a lot to say, it’s gloriously free of pretensions. The intricate, provocative soundtrack created by Walter Murch and Lucas is one of the film’s highlights. Throughout the movie disc jockey Wolfman Jack speaks through car radios, announcing an endless stream of ’50s and ’60s hits which create a parallel dramatic subtext.

NB: une activité impromptue est considérée sous la responsabilité exclusive des ses participants, adhérents ou non de l’AVF Rouen, comme expliqué ici