5 ans après L'Amour l'après-midi (1972) de Rohmer, Truffaut se penche à son tour sur son désir envers les femmes. Il y a de la solitude, du cynisme, et de la misogynie dûe à l'époque. Les dialogues sont bons et les situations parfois poussées à l'extrême.
Le fait que le séducteur ne soit pas sans état d'âmes apporte de la profondeur au sujet.
J'ai ri lorsque le personnage de Bertrand a pensé, devant un couple en train de se marier « En voilà deux qui croient au Père Noël! ».
Knowing the characters have seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I wonder if they also live in an universe where the Before Trilogy exists, because they have to see it before it's too late!
Wings of Fame is a surrealist black comedy so unique it might not be for everyone.
The main characters wander around the emptiness of a purgatory that could have been designed by Magritte. This dream-like experience is underlined by a heavy use of symbols (a Styx-like river, Saint-Peter as a maître d'hôtel, a hedge maze, a blind archer...).
In both content and style Wings of Fame is perhaps too well-conceived, to the point of making it self-aware of its unique place in the world of fantastic cinema.
Some will love it, some will despise it, no one will be indifferent.
This movie is set in the multiverse in which claiming "Police is racist" can actually set you free. Refreshing.
