A warrior who pulverizes a patriarchy of barbarians in a frenetic action film, in the midst of the wave of #MeToo in the cinema: “Furiosa”, the new “Mad Max”, has everything to become a great success.
Australian director George Miller, 79, surprises with the vitality of this fifth episode of the post-apocalyptic saga, created in 1979, premiered worldwide this Wednesday at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
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“Furious” is the name of the heroine, who in the film “Fury Road” (2015) was played by Charlize Theron. This is the prequel and shows the youth, from 10 to 26 years old, of this warrior.
With a mechanical arm, the warrior flees with the women of a despot’s harem in the previous film.
Alyla Browne (“Three Thousand Years of Waiting”, by Miller himself) plays the kidnapped girl, and Anya Taylor-Joy (known for the series “The Queen’s Gambit”) plays the adult, who has become untouchable behind her steering wheel or your gun.
Chris Hemsworth (“Thor”) is the head of the barbarian clan.
In the form of dystopia, “Furiosa” addresses topics such as ecology and feminism, without forgetting the “stunt movie”, stunt films, with an avalanche of retrofuturistic vehicles, powerful and deadly devices.
“At first I needed a story, the theme of escape (“Fury Road”) could serve many purposes, but if it had been a man who had freed women persecuted in a diabolical world by a tyrant, it would have been another story” Miller explains to the press.
“These notions of warriorship, of a place for women, feminism, came later, but at first I just asked myself what story I was going to tell,” the filmmaker adds.
“Driving license”
The frenetic pace of “Furiosa” is reminiscent of the second episode of the saga, “Mad Max II” (1981).
“I say that a film has to be seen with the ears and heard with the eyes,” comments the veteran director in reference to the film’s action.
Amazing in her role, Anya Taylor-Joy, 28, confesses that “until now, I still don’t have a driving license,” according to the film’s press release. “I know how to drift with the handbrake, but I don’t know how to park or drive on the highway.”
The American actress, who grew up in Argentina and speaks Spanish perfectly, says that she wanted to “perform as many dangerous scenes as possible” and the director did not stop her.
Anya Taylor-Joy trained for a year before filming began with her double. “I was never very good at riding a bike, and finding myself on a motorcycle overnight was a real leap into the unknown.”
The environmental message of “Furious” (the depleted natural resources at the center of clan fights) also interested him, with the idea of insisting that our planet must be “protected.”
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