John Gilbert the Great Lover (2022)

Hollywood 1928. John Gilbert, nicknamed The Great Lover, has had a meteoric rise to fame like Charlie Chaplin or Douglas Fairbanks. But three years later, the best paid actor in Hollywood is forgotten by all. His career is that of a shooting star: brief, furious and passionate, bruised by a system and by his tireless conflict with the all-powerful president of MGM, Louis B. Mayer. John Gilbert whose life will inspire "A Star is Born" and "The Artist" embodies, better than any other, the myth of the failure of the transition from silent movies to talkies. By bringing a new look at this myth, and by retracing the power struggle which opposed John Gilbert to one of the greatest Hollywood moguls, this documentary questions us about artistic commitment, its relationship with money and vanity of things.