Réalisation:
Henry BeanScénario:
Henry BeanPhotographie:
Jim DenaultMusique:
Joel DiamondActeurs·trices:
Ryan Gosling, Summer Phoenix, Theresa Russell, Billy Zane, A.D. Miles, Chuck Ardezzone, David Bailey, Henry Bean, Tovah Feldshuh, Sascha Knopf (plus)Résumés(1)
Danny Balint, un skinhead new-yorkais de 22 ans violemment antisémite, s'en prend régulièrement aux Juifs. Orateur admiré dans un groupuscule d'extrême-droite, il se voit confier la mission de collecter des fonds pour ce mouvement néo-nazi en quête de respectabilité. Mais Danny Balint est lui-même juif et donc contraint de cacher sa véritable identité. Jusqu'au jour où un journaliste met la lumière sur cette insupportable dualité et menace de la rendre publique.
Danny Balint vit alors de plus en plus mal ses contradictions et s'engage encore plus radicalement dans des actions antisémites. Mais ses racines, son enfance et sa religion vont inexorablement le rattraper.
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“It’s a romantic movement. It always was." The best movie about the threat of neo-Nazism that I have yet seen. Better, much better even than the outstanding American History X which somewhat unfairly overshadows The Believer. Because it looks at the topic from a completely different perspective than other “similar" movies - here the most important aspect is the crisis of being Jewish and Nazism is only secondary. As a result, the movie is many times more worrying and indescribably more powerful, mainly in the second half when Danny stops “hanging around on street corners" and starts to speak out at seminars. This is made all the more powerful by the gala performance from Ryan Gosling, who proves that both he and Jake Gyllenhaal are rightly considered the most promising young blood in Hollywood. This movie give you a worrying, niggling feeling in your head because it doesn’t have a black and white approach to some questions that really require some concentrated thought. The outstanding experience cannot be spoiled even by the occasionally imperfectly pointed motivation of some characters. The ingenious epilog significantly reshuffled my top fifty most powerful endings.
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