Russian mountains and pink elephants: Tim Burton entrusts us with his vision of Dumbo

The whimsical director engages on the secrets of the manufacture of his last baby for the movies.

Dumbo Return to 6ter on Saturday evening. In 2019, this adaptation of the Disney cartoon from the 1940s had a lot First. Here is an extract of our reviewfollowed by a video interview with the Gothic filmmaker, which is back in shape these days. After this family film, he was a great success thanks to the series Wednesday on Netflix (which will come back from elsewhere At the end of 2025 for a season 2) and he also conquered the public thanks to Beetlejuice 2.

“Let’s face him from the start: we were going to take a step back to see the new Tim Burton, who has been stammering his cinema for quite some time. The promise of magic, humor and emotions was no longer really there, No more Team Tim, the criticism as a whole gradually turning away from the one who had been his child darling in the 90s -dwards in silver hands at Sleepy Hollow. Reconcile. Burtonian, visually, emotionally and symphonically. “

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Just before its cinema release, First had met Burton to talk about this big budget adaptation for the studio with big ears, very personal background. The filmmaker had returned to us on his obsessions, which he has since rebuilt by receiving the Light Prize, this year: “The films were my therapy, my exploration. I was a normal film buff, so completely abnormal. I grew up with monster films, I would have liked to be Mario Bava, for example. (…) Even if I I was successful, the studios did not understand me. “thing”they were more attentive. As if I had become a commodity. I wanted to make a musical comedy version of Wax museum With Michael Jackson. And they said no. Can you imagine? (…) With DumboI realized that my days at Disney were over. I was Dumbo. I worked in this horrible circus and I had to escape. “”

Even under the Disney pavilion, Tim Burton is therefore no exception to the oddity and inventiveness that characterize it. Visiting Paris for the promotion of Dumboin March 2019, the father of Beetlejuice and Sleepy Hollow talked about his innovative vision of the childish tale. Far from being a simple imitation of the classic of 1941, his adaptation pays a vibrant tribute to it while exploring other avenues, between criticism of mass entertainment (personified by a Michael Keaton in great shape) and ode to animal freedom. The wacky filmmaker returns here to his debut as a host with Disney and his new ideas to modernize the story of the famous elephant.

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