Joker, so! In Venice, the American Todd Phillips won the golden lion at the 76th annual Mostra. We can say together with his interpreter, Joaquin Phoenix. They are mounted together on stage to receive the award and, if the actor was perhaps a little disappointed not to get the coupe Volpi for best actor, the triumph of the film cannot be separated from his prodigious composition in the title role. This is his story told by Phillips (director, including Very Bad Trip and War Dogs ), enclosing the famous villain of the comic strips to give a human destiny.

Before taking the name of Joker, Arthur Fleck is a dropout without a job, who lives alone with his mother between two visits to a welfare office, dream of breaking through to the tv, but suffers from a strange nervous illness that results in seizures of laughter terrifying. While the director paints a social context of city disaster of the 1980s, Joaquin Phoenix expresses its powerful performance a misery …

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