HEAT, the monumental work to rediscover essential – Critical

It is on the occasion of the Festival of Light, edition of 2017, as moviegoers have had the honour of re-discovering the masterpiece HEAT, the master Michael Mann, the one who gave the codes of the polar cuvée Xxi century. This copy restored 4K is now displayed.

It is little wonder that The Wild bunch takes place without difficulty in the top cinema of Michael Mann as the shadow of Sam Peckinpah flat permanently on HEAT. This western urban fits perfectly into the mood is melancholic, even elegiac, of the great works that have built the fame of the director of the disenchanted Pat Garett and Billy the Kid. And as a second reading as amended at the time of the nineties, Michael Mann introduced into a Los Angeles architectural cowboys – Neil McCauley and his gang of robbers of banks, and sheriff Vincent Hannah, the inspector inhabited by a sixth sense, but exceeded by the movements irreversible of the modern evolution.

“My life’s a disaster zone… That’s my life.”

Then, undertakes a duel, a relentless pursuit, in the greatest movie of the 90’s, between these two men that everything opposes a legal point of view, but any closer on the metaphysical plane. Neil McCauley and Vincent Hannah are in reality the same people, animated by the same vision cynical of the world. Professionals, they are excellent in their respective fields, one speaks of a hold-up, or when it is to form those who commit it. What we have learned also, with De Niro and Pacino together on screen, this is one of the most famous sequences in the history of contemporary cinema in which HEAT peaks. In this coffee modest, the hour is late, the heart of this confrontation eased between two lost souls in the middle of the lights glowing from the city, rises all the anachronie of the characters and the fate, the witness of their next disappearance would be as bad a blow of fate.HEAT is a story of ghosts, spectators of the existential emptiness of our society, with expertise in pathology, in the perpetual quest of an Eden in the form of a mirage. Then, escape from this world that wallows in capitalism as “postmodern bullshit”, filmed with as much fascination as satire by Michael Mann, becomes the sole objective of survival. Therefore, it is not by chance if Neil McCauley views the horizon through a bay window as a utopia and an irrepressible desire also. This loophole, which embodies coherence with the entire filmography of Michael Mann, is convened by the beaches, algae fluorescent of the Fiji islands. But this illusion, the characters Mannien not find it ever. And when they manage to reach this little piece of paradise, miraculously, it is the system that caught up with them, that the sum of slip back into a frenetic world vrillant at full speed.

” I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I know life is short, whatever time you get is luck.”

And then as Neil McCauley realizes that his dream of the promised land will be fulfilled ever, the scuttling suicidal, leading inevitably to the tip of his nose. Performing, with a delay, that his hour is past, that the world he has known now belongs to ancient history, it is with the excruciating feeling of loneliness and with the consciousness of having lived in a universe stitched from cardboard pulp as Neil McCauley throws himself headlong towards a death that is irrevocable. HEAT, monumental work, to rediscover essential.

Sofiane

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HEAT, monumental work to rediscover essential – Critical
Original title : Heat

Achievement & screenplay : Michael Mann

With : Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer

Release Date : February 21, 1996

Date of recovery : 21 March, 2018

Duration : 2h50min

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