{"id":34638,"date":"2020-06-24T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=34638"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:26:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:26:20","slug":"a-marshmallow-friend-extraordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/a-marshmallow-friend-extraordinaire\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abAn Extraordinary Friend\u00bb: a marshmallow with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema Wednesdays<\/a> - Jonas Follonier<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite an avalanche of good feelings, An extraordinary friend<\/em> currently in cinemas, works like a charm. Primo<\/em>, because this marshmallow is assumed. Deuzio<\/em>, because the form of the film is very interesting. Third<\/em>, because Tom Hanks is a sure thing. Here's an account of a session that blew my mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Everything in the film An extraordinary friend<\/em> currently playing in cinemas, would at first glance scare off anyone with common sense. No doubt if I had watched the trailer before going to the cinema, I might have changed my evening's program. In fact, during the first few minutes of the screening, I wondered if I'd gone to the wrong cinema, still stunned by the obstacle course set up by cinemas with Orwellian forms, barriers, arrows and tape on the floor. For God's sake, the film opened with some corny children's models!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read also: I feel good<\/em> - really, Jean Dujardin?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then Tom Hanks\u2019 face appears on the screen. I haven't been in the wrong session! And then I realized that what I had taken for an uninteresting nursery rhyme was actually part of the great strength of\u2019An extraordinary friend<\/em>. In this film, in which Hanks plays the famous (in the USA, not here) children's TV host Fred Rogers, a.k.a. Mr. Rogers, everything is adapted to his show \u00abMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood\u00bb. In fact, the film becomes the show. Naturally, by going beyond it, transcending it, as any work has the power to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A children's film program<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Mr. Rogers set serves as the backdrop for the beginning of the film, the end, the transitions between scenes and, ultimately, the mood throughout. The viewer understands that the film is aimed at his inner child. Incidentally, the story of Mr. Rogers, the former pastor turned star entertainer, is not so much the subject here. Nor is the story of Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), a stereotypical critical journalist, who is commissioned by the magazine's editor-in-chief to write an article on the subject. Esquire<\/em> an interview with the presenter, and who will be changed by this encounter. The theme is far more prosaic: it's a simple life lesson for all of us, taken as it is, without complexity or detours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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