American Psycho

Réalisé par Mary Harron

États-Unis, 2000 (fiction, 102 minutes, couleurs, chinois cantonais / anglais / espagnol)

Autres titres : « Americké psycho », « Amerikan psyko », « Psicópata americano »

Description du film [en anglais] :
« A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder. »
-- WorldCat (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner
Source originale :	American Psycho, un roman de Bret Easton Ellis
Produit par :	Christian Halsey Solomon, Chris Hanley, Edward R. Pressman
Interprètes principaux :	Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Jared Leto, Willem Dafoe, Cara Seymour, Guinevere Turner
Images :	Andrzej Sekula
Montage images :	Andrew Marcus
Musique :	John Cale
Société de production :	Am Psycho Productions, Edward R. Pressman Film, Lions Gate Films, Muse Productions, P.P.S. Films, Quadra Entertainment, Universal Pictures

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Notes sur American Psycho

Tourné à Toronto.

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Citations sur American Psycho [en anglais]

« American Psycho is much more than a translation of a story from one medium into another. It is a feminist reinterpretation that uses the specific characteristics of film as an audio-visual medium to dissect the story's content and wider social significance. The film is an example of gendered metafiction and uses its experimental dissection of the boundary between fiction and non-fiction to interrogate cultural representations of violent masculinity. »
-- Coco d'Hont (source)

« [In American Psycho Mary] Harron replaces much of the book's endless lists of consumer products and minute descriptions of Bateman's murders with dark-humored social satire. The connection between 1980s Yuppie consumerism and serial murder is vividly established during the film's titles when what appears to be blood dripping is actually drops of red berry sauce drizzled onto elegant cuisine on a dinner plate. »
-- Mary G. Hurd (source)

« [Mary] Harron emphasizes the film's [American Psycho's] feminist critique through Bateman's interrelationships with women, particularly in supposedly romantic places such as restaurants, with contant closeups on his face. »
-- Karen Oughton (source)

Bibliographie sur American Psycho

Chapitres de livres

D'HONT, Coco. « 'I Like to Dissect Girls': Mary Harron's American Psycho as Gendered Metafiction » , dans ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, sous la direction de Kyle Barrett, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 74-88. [en anglais]
OUGHTON, Karen. « The Home, the Body and Otherness: Canadian Representations of Identity and Feminism in Mary Harron's American Psycho, Sarah Polley's Away from Her and the Soska Sisters' American Mary » , dans Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through, sous la direction de Gabrielle Kelly et Cheryl Robson, Twickenham, U.K., Supernova Books, 2014, pp. 54-76. [en anglais]
SCHOTT, Gareth. « Death to Disposal: Echoes of American Psycho in The Rainbow of Her Reasons (Six Feet Under) » , dans ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, sous la direction de Kyle Barrett, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 125-139. [en anglais]

Brèves parties de livres

BARRETT, Kyle. « Dream of the '90s: Mary Harron in Indiewood » , dans ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, sous la direction de Kyle Barrett, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022. [en anglais] (pp. 63-67)
CAODURO, Elena. « Sartorial Interventions: When Fashion and Film Collide in Armani (Mary Harron, 2012) » , dans ReFocus: The Films of Mary Harron, sous la direction de Kyle Barrett, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2022. [en anglais] (pp. 144-146)

Sites Web sur American Psycho

« IMDb: American Psycho », Internet Movie Database, Inc, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/combined. [en anglais]