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The great confession of Charlie Sheen: a surreal doc to see on Netflix [critique]
Put online on the platform this week, “Who is Charlie? Everything about Mr. Sheen” explores the excesses of a self -destructive star. A fascinating account, in which the actor says everything, without taboo, polishing his legend over the anecdotes more crazy than the other.
Jon Cryerwith his head of Lex Luthor, opens hostilities. “”I had hair when I started playing in My uncle Charlie… Do you see today?! “
L’ex-acolyte of Charlie Sheenat the time when Two and a Half Men was the most watched series in America (by far), obviously keeps a very mixed memory of his collaboration with his fiction “fragin”. Moreover, the two have not been in contact for a long time, probably since Charlie was fired Manu Militari from his sitcom, by dint of excess of all kinds.
At the top of his glory, on the Hollywood roof (he touched approximately $ 1.8 million per episode in the last two seasons before his dismissal), Charlie Sheen self -destructive. And according to Cryerit is a diagram that the actor has continued to repeat over the past 40 years.
For what ? How ? This is what the fascinating documentary explores Who is Charlie? Everything about Mr. Sheendirected by Andrew Renzi And that comes out this week on Netflix. Three hours (cut into two 90 -minute episodes) to understand how the actor has burned his wings, since his minor participation in The crazy day of Ferris Bueller (thanks to his girlfriend Jennifer Grey who had pistonated him) until global recognition of Platoon (Oscar for the best film), including his flagship comedies from the 1990s. Because beyond his cine or TV projects, Charlie Sheenthis is the scandal embodied in Hollywood: the best customer of American tabloids. Drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, failed weddings and XXL debauchery, the actor burned his life by both ends and explains it openly in front of the camera d’Andrew Renzi.
At 11 years old on the set ofApocalypse Now
Installed at the bottom of the bench of a dinner – the Chips restaurant in Hawthorne, California – Charlie Sheen tells itself .. a big unpacking during which he assumes everything. From the start, he proclaims it: there will be no taboo! None. Andrew Renzi can talk to him about everything, without detour. The documentary maker lets go and explores every corner of the disturbed soul of the star. He begins with his childhood, evoking how the son of Martin Sheen grew up in Malibu, doing nonsense with the little neighbor Sean Penn. Charlie evokes the very free atmosphere of the time (his parents had a nudist period at home …), but also his weeks spent on the set ofApocalypse Nowin the Philippines, when he was only 11 years old. He remembers the consequences that the production left on his father, completely haggard when I got home. The influence of the work of Martin Sheen In the 1970s was massive on Little Charlie and was available through numerous images of super 8 films made by Charlie with his brothers and the friends of the neighborhood. Andrew Renzi Use these artisanal and hybrid dandruff of the Estevez brothers to illustrate the actor’s life in his document.
On the form, Renzi and his assembly team take up the technique that had worked so well in Still: A Michael J. Fox Movieby assembling extracts from the roles of Sheen In the cinema and on television to reconstruct biographical elements and show how many of his artistic choices echo his own life. A montage sometimes a little flashy, punctuated by reconstructions framed under the chin that we could have happened.
Nicolas Cage and the bikini competition
But it was necessary to illustrate the comments of the actor. Because Sheen speak. A lot. Launched in a confession face camera mission, he delivers a crowd of completely crazy anecdotes. Sometimes it is Clint Eastwood Who calls him to put him back in the right path, during an intervention organized by his family. Then it was a pilot who leaves him the controls of an airliner when he was completely drunk, in the middle of the wedding trip. Where it is Nicolas Cage – His friend of edgy evenings – which takes him to judge a bikini competition at Palm Springs, the same day he had to go into a detox cure … and then he also admits having slammed fortunes in luxury call girls, satisfying his addiction to sex, and not hesitating to send the mother mackerel to save her butt.
Totally master of himself – after seven years of claimed sobriety – Charlie Sheen unfolding in front Renzi These decades of glory and scandals, nose in powder. Factious, ironic, the ethical eye with each evocation of past stupidity, Charlie is a first -rate storyteller. To the point where we come to doubt the honesty of this confession approach, subtly polished to maintain the legend of his excesses. Clearly, everything is not spontaneous in this introspection and the few regrets he evokes remain half-words. The documentary leaves little room for contradiction: external testimonies remain very measured. Jon Cryer Ties an analysis without hatred, his ex-wife Denise Richards pose some truths, Sean Penn admits that he was as drug addict as him, and the pimp that Sheen had sent to prison the treats of all the names, in a derisory, almost pathetic way …
Basically, all of this doesn’t really matter. The documentary is not intended to point the finger at the dark side of the actor. He wants to be fun, unbridled, surreal. Like Charlie Sheen. We drink his words and we revel in his sulfurous story: the life of a world star, of an idol who took advantage of his celebrity to try everything, even if it means grazing the final KO several times, regularly saved by the love of his father.
And his films in all of this?
Note that Martin Sheen (as Emilio Estevez) refused to participate in this documentary glorifying the 400 strokes of his offspring.
We will also regret thatAndrew Renzi Leave a place very limited to the seventh art in the middle of all these escapades. Every striking role of Charlie Sheen is barely touched, used only to contextualize the time. He never tells how he went from a traumatized soldier of Vietnam in Platoon or Golden Boy damaged in Wall Street to icon of wacky humor, with Hot Shots !, My uncle Charlie or Spin City. His confessions are above all a way to maintain his aura trash and to show that Charlie Sheen has certainly been, basically, the best role of Carlos Estevez.
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