35 years after its release, this cult film is back in theaters
This crazy all-black comedy returns to the big screen in a few days.
Barry Sonnenfeld’s film, originally released in 1991, is back in theaters.
This is the creepiest family in cinema. Adapted many times, for the cinema or on the small screen, the comic strip by Charles Addams, published in 1930 in the New Yorker, enjoyed great success.
Very well received at the box office, it is surely the director’s version of Men in Black which made the biggest impression. The filmmaker did it again two years later with a sequel: Addams Family Values.
In the cast of the first opus, we find Anjelica Huston as a superb gothic mother (black-rimmed eyes, biting lipstick and pale complexion), Raúl Juliá as a crazy father and Christina Ricci in the role of the very famous Wednesday.
Barry Sonnenfeld’s comedy with a cadaveric aesthetic features a family that is, to say the least, atypical, obsessed with death, torture and blood. We will be able to discover or rediscover these endearing characters who have become cult, and still relevant today, like the illustrious Tim Burton series centered on Wednesday, with Jenna Ortega.
Synopsis: “Spending peaceful and deliciously macabre days in their haunted mansion, Gomez, Morticia and their children Wednesday and Pugsley see their daily lives turned upside down the day a man appears at their door looking exactly like Uncle Fetide, who disappeared 25 years earlier. But isn’t it an imposter looking to get their hands on their hidden treasure?”
The Addams Family will be released on February 18 in French cinemas.
