“I’ve had failures, but that’s okay. The important thing is not to live with regrets”: we spoke to George Clooney about the new “Jay Kelly”

GGeorge Clooney playing George Clooney. The game of mirrors in “Jay Kelly”, carte blanche given by Netflix to director Noah Baumbach, currently available on Netflix, is not entirely like that. streaming. There is proximity but also distance. Here, Noah Baumbach dedicates himself to filming the idea of ​​an “endangered species”, the movie star from Hollywood. The film mainly portrays the swan song of the stardom system. It is filled with bitterness and fascination and is subtle, with a cutting humor, but also light and without fear of applying cinephile mediations. It can go from a moment where it evokes Italian neorealism to another where it pays homage to “The Companion”, by Peter Yates — Adam Sandler is the equivalent of Tom Courtenay and George Clooney is the cinema mirror of Albert Finney’s stage actor. In fact, the agent played by Adam Sandler becomes the heart and pulse of the script — if this time he is not nominated for the Oscars, it will be a major scandal.