Lady Gaga et Bradley Cooper nous ont-ils offert le moment de la soirée avec leur interprétation de "Shallow"

 Je n'ai pas l'habitude de relayer beaucoup d'articles sur les différentes remises de prix aux États-Unis, encore moins pour commenter une interprétation. Si je me limite souvent au caractère politique de certains choix, je croise dans mes lectures du matin un grand nombre d'articles sur la performance des deux vedettes du film "A star is born", deuxième remake d'un succès des années 1930. J'avoue avoir été séduit par l'aisance et le naturel avec lesquels les deux artistes ont quitté leur siège respectif pour offrir une très solide performance. Selon l'auteur de cet article, la puissance de ce duo trouve son origine dans la manière de filmer la scène. 

 "The same could be said for Sunday’s supernaturally intimate rendition of “Shallow,” the building-then-boiling duet that would later win Best Original Song. The first brilliant thing that Cooper and Gaga did was break with the loud, fake-y, predictable rhythm of awards shows: After one acceptance speech ended, the guitar-picking began, without so much as a canned joke of a celebrity introduction. Cameras placed viewers at the back of the stage; the curtain lifted; crew members pushed a piano into place. Welding-hot lights from the stands of the theater, seen from a singer’s vantage, evoked the final scene of A Star Is Born. A slow-floating lens searched as if it were God’s eye, or a director’s. The TV gala, it seemed, had ended. A movie was beginning.

And then Gaga and Cooper got up.

As in, they got out of their seats in the front row where they’d been sitting all night. It was such a simple thing, and so shocking. Naturally, the point of the Oscars is the audience itself, with each member a potential trove of speeches, GIFs, and gossip. Cooper and Gaga provided such treats in generous quantities over the awards season, with months of mutual-admiration spectacles on red carpets fueling speculation—fan fiction, really—of an affair. Last week, Gaga’s engagement to Christian Carino ended, intensifying the heavy breathing among observers. On Sunday, Cooper’s longtime partner, Irina Shayk, sat between him and Gaga in the front row: a theoretically un-extraordinary move that landed like a dramatic twist in the narrative."

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-shallow-oscars-review/583525/