Barely presented on the cruise, this unofficial biopic of Donald Trump's youth is already controversial. In the midst of the election campaign, the great cuckold of the 2020 presidential announced that he had sent a warning to Ali Abassi's teams. Target, block the release of the film expected two months before the most scrutinized election of the century. But is this fresco on the young real estate magnate as incisive as it was announced?
Criticism of The Apprentice
The master and apprentice
After the excellent thriller Nights of Mashhad, the Danish director of Iranian origin has chosen an eminently burning and radically different subject: to attack the first steps of billionaire Donald Trump, today plagued with justice for multiple cases as well Sexual that political. Taquin, Ali Abassi chose the title of the reality TV show that broke audience records from 2004 to 2015 and that participated in the popularity of the future president of the United States. Contrary to what one might have imagined, young Donald is still (very) far from the outrages of the right-wing populist we know today. The first half of the film shows a young man with little confidence, hesitant and closer to the billionaire gentleman than the misogynist and masculinist candidate appreciated by the white suprematists.
Ali Abassi tells of the construction of the Trump myth, an emblematic media figure who has difficulty in imagining the states of souls today in the light of so much disinvolence and arrogance. While the exercise of the biography is perilous for men paradoxically governed by the images of themselves they want to convey to voters, Trump's absolutism leaves little room for questioning, even simulated to form political capital. Trump never renounces and manipulates the truth as a malleable and polymorphic concept. This biopic indirectly gives him a human fiber.
Often regarded as the champion of fake news, Donald Trump has contributed greatly to the post-truth climate and the massive spread of conspiracy, as evidenced by his report to VOCID, climate disruption or any other cleavage. When « first democracy in the world » This did not leave the world of power indifferent. On the contrary, our politicians in office are now mostly inspired by the untruths uttered across the Atlantic, happy euphemism chosen benignly by our media to soften their lies. The expectation of a film dedicated to the president gracefully dismissed in 2020 was therefore singular in view of the global deterioration of the relationship between rulers and governed.
Having been recalled, Abassi's film begins with the meeting between Donald Trump and his mentor, Conservative lawyer Roy Cohn, former adviser to Senator McCarthy fiercely anticommunist. Today, who died of AIDS, this brutal, manipulative and cynical man did not hesitate to break the rules. The end justifies the means and he does not hesitate to convene democracy and its famous amendments to legitimize his blackmails and other spying techniques mobilized to win his battles. This influential man had been the subject of a play, Angels In America by Tony Kusher, a work that recounted the fall of this powerful businessman to whom Donald Trump owes much according to Abassi. It is also the red thread of The Apprentice. This baroque character was even the subject of a series of the same name. Al Pacino Camped the role of this vile lawyer. The key to success, Roy Cohn would have entrusted the future tenant of the white house. Played by the excellent Jeremy StrongThe lawyer steals the star from good old Donald. It is he who teaches him three fundamental rules to respect: the best defence is the attack, create his own truth and never admit defeated. Never. Three mantras that seem to be deeply intrigued in trompist DNA today.
Trump with ripolin
At the beginning of the film, we see the birth of their curious relationship where Roy Cohn takes almost paternal affection for this kid, so little confident. Against all odds, he appears well educated in Abassi's film, far from the image of the current presidential candidate. This confusing angle questions its authenticity, both the 45nd President of the United States, now 77, is outrageously vulgar. While it is often said that old fools were first and foremost young fools, it is hard to believe in such a transformation. It's hard to say whether it's a narrative choice to attach to the character or a concrete reality, even if Donald Trump is gradually turning into a fat and dirty character that we know him. Unless it is self-censorship.
Trump, camped by Sebastien Stan, sees its mimics evolve and gradually draw closer to its guignolesque side, mouth in ass of chicken and the minced diction so recognizable. However, if the actor's choice is physically convincing, in terms of deacting, we are still far from Trump's kind, decidedly unrivallable. The copy, of course regular, seems finally very pale in front of the original. This may be explained by the fact that the film ends well before the Trump « Modern » We know. Nevertheless, the spectator will remain hungry for this angelism and a carabine epilogue.
Before he gets away from his mentor who gradually loses his hand on his creature, The Apprentice adopted the romance register during his meeting with Ivana Trump. The first wife of Donald Trump, who died in 2022, Ivana can now hardly challenge the brushed door of their meeting. Presented as a lightning strike for the real estate magnate, Ivana first has stars in her eyes when she exchanges with this increasingly confident young billionaire. And even if a very brief sequence shows on the screen the alleged rape of his spouse, Ali Abassi shows some restraint in his accusations as for the staging of the event.
The woman who got divorced in the 1990s « cruel and inhuman treatment » is relatively spared by Trump's violence in Abassi's film. She had, however, told a statement about an extremely violent episode with her husband, who allegedly sexually assaulted her after an argument. A testimony on which the young model of Czechoslovak origin came back three years after their divorce in the book Lost Tycoon, The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. This had given rise to a stark response from Trump's advisor, Michael Cohen, who allegedly said that « can't rape his wife ». This lubricated and predatory side of Trump, yet today widely documented by Journalistic surveys serious and abounded by legal actions, is very in retreat in The Apprenticewhich could give a partial picture of the perpetrator of the violence. Moreover, it is this point that is most annoying the teams of the US presidential candidate today, while Abassi puts oil on the fire and that he is most likely to face a libel trial, or even a conviction given the statements of his former wife defeating his ex-husband.
Make Donald Trump worst again
If the libido figure of the politician appears gradually, it will be regretted that he is not up to the ubiquitous arrogance and violence in Trump's speeches, which is never as aggressive as when he addresses women. Often unfaithful and customary of toxic relations with his adulterers, Trump has not missed sexist interventions since he was in the spotlight. Of course, we can see a few in The Apprentice, But was there no way to go further?
It's horrible to write but even if this rape presented on the screen and immediately overshadowed by another staggered scene is sadly only one « Details » In the life of a customary man of sexual and gender-based violence against women, one is far from the political brulot with the work of Abassi. In principle, a portrait is meant to represent the life and personality of the person concerned. For comparison, if Limonov, also presented in Cannes, allows himself the cups, but it gives us the opportunity to understand who this Russian revolutionary was. What's the message from Trump's partial biopic?
Finally, isn't this starting portrait of a three-week-old rabbit, transformed by a serpentine lawyer, a little superficial? Ali Abassi avoids Trump's many failures a little too easily. Some Anecdotes of his childhood bad boy, However widely relayed by works and media, indicate in relation to the rather clean portrait presented on the screen. Trump's niece tells Trump's stories in his book « How my family made the most dangerous man in the world ». She explains in particular how harmful the father was to the development of young Donald, which appears only at the margin with The Apprentice. And yet these revelations were not lacking, starting with the story where Trump had fought with his music teacher or where he would have thrown stones at a baby.
The « King of the debt », as he called himself, is yet today pinned for Overvaluation of his real estate empire and many unsavory financial affairs. The figure of the young prodigal billionaire is too little dismayed by the film of Abassi. Probably below the real life of « Man with orange head », the real estate magnate and probable 47nd President of the USA has not much to fear from this friendly film but that fails to touch its target in the heart. If one certainly scolds his facet of self-made-man, old capitalist adage of great fortunes, was there not something more bold to denounce Trump's ogre?
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