Between Robert Rodriguez and the B series, it’s a real love story that has lasted for years. The director of machete And Alita: Battle Angel presented this year Hypnotic in Cannes, reviving the classic thriller by sending a policeman played by Ben Affleck in search of his missing daughter until the discovery of a government plot.
“I liked the idea of playing with the spectators for this voluntarily elaborate plot in the style of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers, explains the filmmaker to 20 minutes. It is a great pleasure to push the public to put aside their disbelief to let themselves be carried away by a delirious story. Indeed, it is better not to be too straddling the plausibility to accept the incredible adventures of this manhandled cop between hypnosis sessions, robberies, chases and fights.
Ben Affleck this hero
“My secret is to only shoot films that I would like to see and I love genre cinema above all else, underlines the filmmaker. I try to keep the main elements while adding a good dose of steroids to make them more enjoyable. Robert Rodriguez took more than twenty years to realize hypnotic which he started writing in 2002. “Hypnosis is a subject that has fascinated me since I was young and the series where bad guys manipulated characters into performing actions against their will. »
The policeman embodied by Ben Affleck is lost between what is real and what is not in a ballet choreographed by a disturbing agent played by William Fichtner. “Ben is a cross between Cary Grant and James Stewart. It is made for heroes day, ”jokes Robert Rodriguez.
A fairground attraction
The director does not take offense when he is told that he has signed a good number of nanars. “Initially, the cinema was a fairground attraction, he claims. Entertainment is my goal and I pride myself on making suspenseful B-movies. » Hypnotic fits this description. This thriller made with a minimal budget and a lot of system D is inspired by great moments in cinema like The House of Doctor Edwardes (1945) or more recent Inception for a game of cat-and-mouse fun. Robert Rodriguez does not take himself seriously but he does not make fun of the 7th art.