INTERVIEW - S’il y a un cinéaste qui a fait de la mini-série sa spécialité, c’est bien Steven Barron. Réalisateur des films Electric dreams (1984), des Tortues Ninja (1990) et des clips cultes Billie Jean pour Michael Jackson et Take on me pour A-Ha, Barron se consacre depuis plusieurs années à l’exercice de la mini-série ; exercice réussi puisque toutes celles qu’il a réalisé ont été nominées dans au moins deux catégories aux Emmys : 18 nominations pour Merlin, 5 pour Les mille et une nuits, 2 pour The Storyteller, Dreamkeeper et L’île aux trésors.

I recently devoted an entire weekend to a Lord of the Ring marathon. I revisited the long versions of the trilogy that gave me so much happiness when it first came out in 2001. I was fourteen when The Fellowship of the Ring was released and I went crazy about it like the majority of my schoolmates. I was even offered a limited edition of the ring. There was no doubt in my mind that these films were perfect. But that was then and this is now. Seeing them with the eyes of a twenty-four woman had been a radically different experience. I would not say that the magic was gone as it would somehow mean that when you grow up you are no longer sensitive to enchanted worlds; but it was certainly undermined by the writing and directing problems that I noticed. I came out of this night with a whole changed opinion about the trilogy: it is regrettably bad.