The actor is great in this light comedy rebroadcast this evening on TF1.
“There is no age to redo an internship”said the poster of the comedy The New Internwhich was released in theaters in 2015 and will return to the first channel at 9:10 p.m. Anne Hathaway is therefore in charge of training its surprising intern, a septuagenarian embodied by Robert DeNiro in front of the camera of Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, Anything Can Happen).
At 72 years old at the time of the release, the legend of American cinema continued on his comic momentum, after the very dispensable Return match, Malvita and last vegasbut New intern was more successful. In FirstIsabelle Danel rightly defended the performance of the actor in her review: “Wisdom of the old vs energy of the new? The screenwriter and director of The Holiday and Not that easy writes with efficiency and films without genius stories in tune with the times. She does it again here, starting from an amusing postulate: Ben, a retired seventy-year-old and widower, gets a job as “senior trainee” in a fashion start-up created and managed by the dynamic Jules. He then becomes a model and a mentor for her… Accurate observations, emotional moments and not always light-hearted, gritty quarters of an hour mingle in this pleasant transgenerational comedy with no surprises. Robert De Niro, who we haven’t seen this sober in a long time, is perfect.”
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The New Intern is also a nod to Devil Wears Pradathe cult comedy that launched the career ofAnne Hathawayin which she plays a trainee tyrannized by Meryl Streep, editor-in-chief of a prestigious fashion magazine. Nine years later, the Oscar-winning actress thanks to the Miserables took the bottle since it is she who runs a fashion site and who plays the internship supervisor of Robert DeNiro !
Trailer ofA New Intern :
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