Jacob Elordi's undeniable confirmation as a sex symbol

Everything is impeccable in Indomitable, the film debut of experienced television director Daniel Minahan: the atmospheric photography, the careful setting that recreates post-war United States, the yellow jacket with which he Jacob Elordi emulates James Dean Rebel Without a Cause…Almost everything in this immaculate product evokes in form and substance the universe of Ryan Murphy (Minahan has directed episodes of series such as Ratched, Halston and Hollywood) and it seems as artificial as the protagonist's jacket: its bright yellow and immaculate appearance remind us that we are looking at a simulation of 1950s Hollywood cinema.

The exercise could be interesting –Todd Haynes He did it masterfully – and Minahan has the right actors for the experiment: Daisy Edgar-Jones gives a nuanced and subtle performance, Diego Calva reveals himself to be a torrential, gloriously unstable actor, and Elordi (whose first appearance is topless) confirms himself as the sex symbol The most undeniably cinematic work of recent times. It's a shame that Minahan opted for a calligraphic, imitative style rather than a more personal approach to this drama. queer A film about crossed destinies and a search for personal freedom, in which Calva and Elordi star in intense scenes of intimacy, and in which too many overlapping plots fail to integrate into the whole. At least now we know that Jacob Elordi looks (almost) as good in white T-shirts as Marlon Brando.