Locke
- 2013
- Tous publics
- 1h 25min
Ivan Locke, père de famille dévoué et gestionnaire de construction prospère, reçoit un appel téléphonique à la veille du plus grand défi de sa carrière qui met en branle une série d'événemen... Tout lireIvan Locke, père de famille dévoué et gestionnaire de construction prospère, reçoit un appel téléphonique à la veille du plus grand défi de sa carrière qui met en branle une série d'événements qui menacent son existence soigneusement cultivée.Ivan Locke, père de famille dévoué et gestionnaire de construction prospère, reçoit un appel téléphonique à la veille du plus grand défi de sa carrière qui met en branle une série d'événements qui menacent son existence soigneusement cultivée.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 7 victoires et 33 nominations au total
- Bethan
- (voix)
- Katrina
- (voix)
- Donal
- (voix)
- Gareth
- (voix)
- Eddie
- (voix)
- Sean
- (voix)
- Cassidy
- (voix)
- Doctor Gullu
- (voix)
- Car Phone
- (voix)
- (non crédité)
Avis à la une
Not to say that the movie is not good. It acts as a sort of one man play starring Tom Hardy as Ivan Locke, a man who made a mistake in his past that threatens to unwrap his perfect life when he tries to do the right thing. The movie totally relies on the actor playing the role and Tom steps up to the challenge nicely.
But I've seen this kind of one man play with Buried starring Ryan Reynolds and Brake starring Stephen Dorff. I can even mention other movies like 127hours or Phone booth that have a similar concept.
What makes Locke different is that the pressure of life and death is not there. In those movies the leading (and only) men were threaten with the proposal of death, While in this movie, Ivan Locke's way of Life is threaten with change, and it's this change in the concept that made the movie Quiet and low key, but the filmmakers were still able to make if fast pasted and kinetic (having it take place in a Car going down the highway helps).
The movie had the same pressure of a ticking clock about to explode and the lead character attempting to talk himself out of the situation, but the filmmaker does not force the tension or thrills on you. Ivan Locke's situation is very down to earth and every day to day. Watching him attempt to deal with this situation could have come off boring after a half hour if not for Tom Hardy showing his mental acting chops (versus how physically intimidating he seemed as Bane in Dark Knight Rises, he's a small man in real life).
Though the movie was good to watch I could have gotten the same effect streaming it at home on Netflix. Recommend you do the same.
This a low budget drama from writer and director Steven Knight with Hardy the sole screen presence. As he takes to the road he is seemingly a man in control of his destiny, determined to do the right thing only for everything to slowly unravel. Through conversations on the phone he tries to negotiate an emerging crisis at work with his boss and an evolving domestic situation with a concerned wife and sons desperate to have their dad home to watch the football.
With a premise of just one actor in a confined location it is testament to Hardy's acting nous that he can pull off such a taught, powerful performance solely based on reactions to the increasingly dramatic phone calls. Locke is unrelenting in his belief of doing the right thing and we see why when he has imagined conversations with his father, an apparently neglectful and emotionally absent figure in his life. These scenes in particular are beautifully shot with the use of Locke looking into the car mirrors for the man who isn't there.
It wastes very little of its short running time and overall is a captivating and rewarding film with a terrific central performance.
The story itself is that Ivan Locke is a construction worker who just got off his shift and is now driving back, but then gets some calls that give us insight into what he has going on in his personal life and his work life and how Locke responds to this information as it gets progressively more stressful. It's incredible that a movie at only 82 minutes can go through such a roller-coaster of emotions, and as short as it is the movie still flies by because you're so drawn to the character. One of the voices is Locke's coworker voiced by Andrew Scott (Moriarty from Sherlock) and even as a voice-over his performance is totally convincing and his back-and-forth with Hardy is electric and at times humorous. His wife and other parties bring drama into the equation and as things start falling apart for Locke it dips into psychological thriller territory.
Steven Knight deserves much credit as well for having written and directed the film. It's so smooth and sleek, from the highway shots to the few overhead shots of the city at night. It's beautiful and adds the ideal atmosphere for this one-man show to maneuver in. It's a wonderfully written movie, wonderfully directed, perfectly acted (seriously, this is the performance of Hardy's career), with a spot- on supporting cast of voices. Locke is a mesmerizing movie from beginning to end. If you're a Tom Hardy fan or a fan of good cinema in general, you're doing yourself a disservice by not watching Locke.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe movie had an unconventional shooting schedule. Tom Hardy filmed his part over six nights, with three cameras rolling, shooting the movie twice per night as it was filmed in a single take. The other actors were in a hotel room, speaking on the phone with Hardy, who was on location. After the actors wrapped their parts, there were an additional two nights of pickup shots.
- GaffesThey mention the "large" delivery of 355 metric tonnes of concrete with 218 trucks. Apart from the fact that wet concrete is usually referred to in volume, not weight, the calculation of trucks needed for this weight is wrong. The mixing trucks on average hold 18 tons of concrete each, meaning that they only need 20 trucks.
- Citations
Ivan Locke: Well hear this, Gareth. When I left the site just over two hours ago, I had a job, a wife, a home. And now I have none of those things. I have none of those things left. I just have myself and the car that I'm in. And I'm just driving and that's it.
- ConnexionsFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2013 (2013)
- Bandes originalesIvan Locke
by Dickon Hinchliffe
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Sites officiels
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Loạn Đả Tinh Thần
- Lieux de tournage
- Broadgate, Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni(Construction Site)
- Sociétés de production
- Voir plus de crédits d'entreprise sur IMDbPro
Box-office
- Budget
- 2 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 1 375 769 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 81 006 $US
- 27 avr. 2014
- Montant brut mondial
- 5 192 314 $US
- Durée
- 1h 25min(85 min)
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 2.35 : 1