Out of sight [1998]

yamaha a écrit:Georges clooney a une grande fan base en France on dirais ..fin surtout depuis What Else ? donc je sait pas lol .

This is easily one of my favorite George Clooney performances. The character was somewhat older in the book, and based on things said about Foley that would make sense, but the actor plays things as so cool and assured that I wouldn’t want anyone else in the role. Jennifer Lopez is simply fantastic, following up on the promise she displayed in a few films that didn’t quite work (Stone’s U-TURN, Raefelson’s BLOOD AND WINE) for reasons that weren’t really her fault and so good that it seems like she’s about to be in a different career than she wound up in, being a celebrity more than anything and starring in crappy romantic comedies. It really is a shame because she’s got a true movie star vibe here along with totally convincing in showing the utter confidence and brains of Karen Cisco. And the way the film shoots her, she’s ridiculously gorgeous as well. While watching the movie this time it struck me that most (if not all) of Soderbergh’s periodic freeze-frames seem to favor pausing on Lopez. Not that I’m complaining in the slightest and he must have been as taken by her as everyone else and it’s almost as if the film is gazing at her as Jack Foley does—looking for a time out, wanting to hold that image of her in the brain as long as possible before it dissipates. In just a few years she’d be off to J. Lo land never to be anything like this again but this film, like those freeze-frames, captures her when she was at her absolute best as well as the screen presence she probably should have been for years afterward.