Joker: Folie à Deux

"The world is a stage."

2024 2h 18m EN

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Synopsis

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While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

“The world is a stage.”

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Cast

Joaquin Phoenix
Arthur Fleck
Lady Gaga
Lee Quinzel
Brendan Gleeson
Jackie Sullivan
Catherine Keener
Maryanne Stewart
Zazie Beetz
Sophie Dumond
Steve Coogan
Paddy Meyers
Harry Lawtey
Harvey Dent
Leigh Gill
Gary Puddles

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Todd Phillips
Writers: Scott Silver, Todd Phillips, Todd Phillips
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$190M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Joker Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

CAST

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240+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Todd Phillips, shot by Lawrence Sher. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Hildur Guðnadóttir. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jeff Groth shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga and Brendan Gleeson carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Todd Phillips directs. Lawrence Sher behind the camera. Hildur Guðnadóttir scores. Jeff Groth cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$190M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Released 2 years ago.
3Part of the "Joker Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4240+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Todd Phillips, shot by Lawrence Sher. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Hildur Guðnadóttir. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Jeff Groth shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga and Brendan Gleeson carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The world is a stage.".
10IMDB entry: tt11315808 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 10 themes, including "based on comic", "sequel", "madness", "mental health".
12Released under 25 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Lawrence Sher
Original score: Hildur Guðnadóttir
Editing: Jeff Groth
Production design: Mark Friedberg
Costume design: Arianne Phillips
Makeup / hair: Mia Bauman
VFX supervisor: Thippabathula Shiva
Sound: Tom Ozanich
Stunt coordinator: Brian Machleit
Runtime: 138 min · 2h 18m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $190,000,000
Box office: $207,500,287
Return: 109% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Part of

Joker Collection

A series centering on a failed stand-up comedian who is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

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CinemaSerf2024-10-05
★ 6/10
I was going to go and see the first Joaquin Phoenix outing as the "Joker" (2019) to remind my self of who did what to whom, but I didn't have time. I think I am glad because I recall that being so very much better than this. Here, we pick up after "Fleck" (Phoenix) has been on his clown-faced slaughtering spree and is in prison supervised by prison officer "Jackie" (Brendan Gleeson). His lawyer "Maryanne" (Catherine Keener) is trying to have him declared competent to stand trial for his crimes so she can plead some sort of personality disorder defence - he's not "Fleck" when he's the "Joker" sort of thing. Thing is, he encounters "Lee" (Lady Gaga) at a prison sing-a-long and she manages to ingratiate herself with him and then to derail that plan ensuring the plot twists it's way into the courtroom where his conviction for multiple homicides quickly appears as inevitable as there being a song in the film. Now I did like the soundtrack, but by the way Todd Phillips has presented this, it might as well have been either Tony Bennett or Newley who took on the leading role as her part is largely a series of entertainingly photographed music videos with the thinnest slices of meat constituting a weak story in between. It's a love story, I suppose, but that wasn't really what I turned up to see. There's loads of excess, but no menace or jeopardy and the character's previous adeptness at treading the thin line between sanity and madness isn't really developed at all here. He comes across more as a pathetic, emaciated, prisoner whose flame has well and truly gone out. His legal antagonist (Harry Lawtey) looks about eleven years old but that doesn't really matter either as the judicial proceedings themselves offer us little by way of sustaining drama, even as we build to a denouement that offers the tiniest bit of hope then... It's a stunning piece of cinema, money has been spent and there's imagination a-plenty from the production's designers. It's just too much of a jigsaw of a film with too little plot serving as a vehicle for an album boxed-set that's doubtless ready to hit the shops.
YearOneFun2024-10-05
★ 1/10
both JOKER movies were clickbait. he is not the joker & she is not Harley. (they are Arthur & Lee) 🤮that's what you get for overhyping first movie! 😂🤣
Manuel São Bento2024-10-05
★ 4/10
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://talkingfilms.net/joker-folie-a-deux-review-an-ambitious-musical-failure/ "Joker: Folie à Deux holds immense technical and artistic merit, but it fails to replicate the success and impact of the original. Todd Phillips’ boldness in turning the film into a musical is admirable, but the execution ends up being incoherent, with abrupt transitions between the dark drama and the musical numbers, resulting in a jarring experience, made even more frustrating by the studio’s embarrassing secrecy about the movie’s format. While visually impressive and with standout performances from Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, the lack of thematic and character development makes this sequel an ambitious yet ultimately disappointing attempt that adds little to the thought-provoking study presented in 2019." Rating: C-