2023-05-18 20:00:06
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Teddy (Ethann Isidore), Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”
CANNES – Fans have been waiting for this film for more than 15 years. Harrison Ford is back, fedora on his head and lasso in hand, in what will be, he swears, his last Indiana Jones. Steven Spielberg this time passed the camera to James Mangold (Logan, Le Mans 66) for this 5th part, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Le HuffPost was able to preview the film, presented out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday, May 18, and here is what we thought of it.
Let’s not turn around the hat: this ultimate film is a success. It’s fun, entertaining, full of adventures of all kinds and full of references to previous Indiana Jones epics to delight the nostalgic. However, we were a little scared when we saw the opening scene: we discover a young and dashing Indy of not even 40 years old, his face smoothed with special effects, in full chase with Nazis on a train. Was James Mangold going to serve us a 2:34 flashback?
Papy Indy
Far from there. A few minutes later, the mood changes. We are in 1969. Indiana Jones is no longer a hero, he is slumped in his underpants in his leather armchair, a drink in his hand in the early morning, his face wrinkled, his hair disheveled. Yes, Harrison Ford has aged – he was 79 years old at the time of filming – so his hero, who is no longer really one, too. He is about to retire as a teacher, he has lost his son, his wife has left him. In short, he is broken.
His goddaughter, Helena Shaw – played by a seemingly venal and ill-intentioned Phoebe Waller-Bridge – manages to put him back in the saddle somewhat against his will. And they go in search of the mythical dial of destiny, a calculating machine created, according to legend, by Archimedes which would make it possible to locate temporal faults. Obviously, they are not the only ones who want to get their hands on it: this is where Mads Mikkelsen comes in as the perfect (as always) villain.
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Helena, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, is Indy’s goddaughter in this 5th installment
The chases are done on motorcycles in Syracuse, by tuk-tuk in Tangier or on horseback in the New York subway. And even if Indiana Jones finds the rhythm, his septuagenarian shoulders let go when he has to climb the wall of a cave, his lasso can no longer do much against the pistols of his many enemies and he still has not overcome his fear of snakes.
As an old adventure backpacker, he talks about his old expeditions and also meets old comrades like Sallah (John Rhys-Davies), the loyal and good-natured excavator of the Raiders of the Lost Ark and D’Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadewho became a New York taxi driver.
Taking over from Steven Spielberg was a risky challenge – even if the 4th installment had greatly lowered the expectation level – but James Mangold takes it up brilliantly. And to offer a rich, rhythmic and funny end point to this cult saga born in 1981.
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