“If I had been on the set, I would have gone to see Cillian Murphy and said, ‘I’m delighted, Doctor Oppenheimer’. Staging the life of Robert Oppenheimer, on the big screen, and in three hours, is a successful bet for Christopher Nolan according to Virginie Ollagnier. For his fourth novel, They killed Oppenheimerthe author signed with Anne Carrière an autobiographical thriller on the tragic fate of the physicist, after six years of research. 20 minutes therefore went to the cinema with this expert.
Christopher Nolan’s film respects both the story of the father of the atomic bomb but also the history of the United States with the start of the Cold War in the 1950s and the birth of “brutal” anti-communism. For Virginie Ollagnier, “it’s wonderful to have so much information about such a critical moment in history, because we still live in the shadow of Robert Oppenheimer”.
A special mention for the performance of Cillian Murphy, who embodies Oppenheimer with “both poise and elegance” but also with a “speed” of acting that reflects the “inner rhythm” of the physicist. Watch Virginie Ollagnier’s full decryption in the video at the top of the article.