Who can challenge with such regularity James Bond and the superhero franchises at the box office? Tom Cruise, soon to be 60 years old, the face of Mission Impossible and other blockbusters, like Top Gun: Maverick parachuted Wednesday at the Cannes Film Festival.”Tom Cruise is one of the actors in the history of cinema who, in his choices, in his projects, in his work, has the greatest success rate”, salutes Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Festival, who transforms for a day into a control tower to receive Top Gun: Maverick out of competition (continuation of the first part of 1986) and his mega-star. The actor and producer has never donned a superhero cape in forty years of career but is nevertheless summoned to turn into a savior of cinema while cinemas are slow to regain their filling level before the global health crisis. “When he commits to a project, it’s a great result, a great film, and it’s also this artist that we welcome, not just the blockbuster Top Gun, which we hope will bring viewers back. in cinemas”, thus develops Thierry Frémaux. The American also appeals to the president of the jury of the Festival, Vincent Lindon, a French actor yet renowned for a filmography that rhymes with social commitment. “I have always loved Tom Cruise. He is the actor who runs the best in the cinema, always straight in his line!”, He recently declared in the Sunday newspaper. “Perceptible crack” He has reason. Tom Cruise is still racing. Figuratively and literally. Indeed, we see him in the new Top Gun in a race-test of effort in one of the first scenes, which allows him to display a physique that is always carefully maintained. The reunion with Val Kilmer, sick on film and in life, is hard to see for the latter, as Tom Cruise displays brilliant health. It was with the first chapter Top Gun that the actor, who had just broken through with Risky Business (1983), became a superstar in Maverick’s fighter pilot outfit, the character’s nickname. escaping the commercial circuit for incursions into auteur cinema. Born on the 4th of July by Oliver Stone (1989) thus reads like an anti-Top Gun, with a hero, a Vietnam veteran, confined to a wheelchair, in full descent into hell. A fine effort to break his image and attempt – in vain – to win an Oscar for a performance as the United States loves so much. “He wants to be the best, […] he comes from the working class, there is a noticeable crack in him, he comes from a divided home, he was dyslexic”, had deciphered in the newspaper Le Monde Oliver Stone. offered parentheses with cerebral directors, Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut, with his wife at the time Nicole Kidman) and Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia). action for the general public as an actor and producer with Mission impossible.With a first chapter (the 7th and 8th are in sight) directed by Brian De Palma, another great filmmaker for this actor who has already passed in front of the camera of Francis Ford Coppola (Outsiders, for a small role at the start of his career) and who will later play for Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds). Tom Cruise has starred in Mission Impossible for almost thirty years (1996), an exceptional longevity that no act ur embodying James Bond has known. The man with the impeccable smile rebounded well while his pro-Scientology activism tarnished his image, especially in the mid-2000s. He has once again become one of the symbols of Hollywood power. “He is someone who devotes himself to the cinema”, insists Thierry Frémaux. “To see Tom Cruise, you have to see a feature film in a movie theater.”
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