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Premier mérite de Roger Avary : avoir trouvé un équivalent visuel à l'écriture de Bret Easton Ellis. D'où une mise en scène jubilatoire, éblouissante, jamais gratuite – notamment les nombreux split-screen pour évoquer l'aliénation, la séparation ou le fantasme.

Deuxième tour de force : conserver les multiples voix narratives, via la voix off, mais aussi via de nombreux retours en arrière accélérés, afin de traduire la simultanéité de points de vue sur le même événement. Du grand art.

Enfin, concentrée sur une année, à une époque indéterminée, au Camden College, l'intrigue dresse le portrait d'une jeunesse zombiesque, déconnectée du monde, et dont les relations sociales transpirent la monotonie, l'ennui et le cynisme. Un teen-age movie trash, qui permet à la vedette de la série Dawson James van der Beek de casser son image consensuelle en endossant le rôle de Sean Bateman, petit frère d'American Psycho, et à Faye Dunaway celui d'une mère complètement allumée.



This tale of privileged college students at their self- absorbed and childish worst is the very book that countless students have dreamed of writing at their most self-absorbed and childish moments.

With one bestseller to his credit, Less Than Zero author and recent Bennington College graduate Ellis has had the unique opportunity of seeing his dream become a realityand all those other once-and-future students can breathe a sigh of relief that it didn't happen to them.

Through a series of brief first-person accounts, the novel chronicles one term at a fictional New England college, with particular emphasis on a decidedly contemporary love triangle (one woman and two men) in which all possible combinations have been explored, and each pines after the one who's pining after the other.

Theirs is a world of physical, chemical and emotional excessan adolescent fantasy of sex, drugs and sturm und drangwherein characters are distinguished only by the respective means by which they squander their health, wealth and youth.

Despite its contemporary feel and flashy structurethe book begins and ends midsentencethe narrative relies on the stalest staples of melodrama and manages to pack in a suicide, assorted suicide attempts, an abortion and the death of a parent without giving the impression that anything is happeningor that any of it matters.



Réputé inadaptable en raison de l'entremêlement de 3 voix narratives, Les Lois de l'attraction, le film, est une réussite totale.

Avec : James Van Der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Biel, Faye Dunaway, Eric Stoltz


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