Daniel Day-Lewis is masterful in There Will Be Blood [critique]

This Monday evening, Arte is rebroadcasting the cult film by Paul Thomas Anderson, followed by a documentary on its star and his particular working method.

If you like Daniel Day-Lewisyou will be served from 9 p.m.! Arte is programming the classic by director Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Bloodreleased in France in early 2008. The actor is exceptional in this drama which earned him a second Oscar for best actor. Note that it will be followed by an interesting documentary dedicated to the flagship actor ofIn the name of the father, Lincoln And Phantom Thread. Designed for the first free-to-air broadcast of the latter, in 2021, Daniel Day-Lewis: the heir returns to the help of numerous archives on the funny career of the famous actor to blend completely into his characters. It is already visible in replay:

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His game had a profound impact on the writing of First. Here is the review by Jean-François Morisse, published when it was released:

“It's a family epic. Or at least, probably the character played by a masterful Daniel Day-Lewis, whose journey we follow here over nearly half a century, he would like to believe. This man in search of social success and blood ties, obsessed by success which for a long time seems to give, more than value, meaning to his life. This tortured and complex character whose jolts of humanity inevitably touch us with remarkable accuracy. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Punch-Drunk Love…) delivers an intense and harsh human work, like the time in which it takes place. The quest for oil, inseparable from this inextinguishable thirst for recognition, adds, implicitly, a very current reflection on the progress of the world in general and American power in particular. Bright.“

And here is an extract from Stéphanie Lamome's opinion, also published in First at the time:

“There will be blood proves that the director is indeed the new little visionary genius of US independent cinema. At the age of 37, he created a masterpiece that has the scale of a great classic. More than a fight between faith and profit, God and capitalism, good and evil, it is a fierce struggle between evil and evil that Paul Thomas Anderson offers us.”

Trailer for There Will be Blood :

Finally, here is the first information on Paul Thomas Anderson's next film, which he has just shot with Leonardo DiCaprio. The star, who also faced Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New Yorkby Martin Scorsese, in 2004, collaborates here on the most expensive project in the entire filmography of the American filmmaker.

Paul Thomas Anderson's film starring Leonardo DiCaprio has a release date