Everything a question of time
| Movie | |
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| German title | Everything a question of time |
| Original title | About time |
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| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Curtis |
| script | Richard Curtis |
| production |
Tim Bevan Eric Fellner |
| music | Nick Laird-Clowes |
| camera | John Guleserian |
| cut | Mark Day |
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It's all a question of time (original title: About Time ) is a romantic comedy from 2013. Directed by Richard Curtis , who also wrote the script. The main roles were played by Domhnall Gleeson , Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy .
The film opened on September 4, 2013 in the UK and opened in Germany on October 17, 2013.
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On his 21st birthday, Tim Lake learns from his father that, like all male members of the family, he has the gift of traveling back in time . All he has to do is go into a dark room, clench his hands in fists, and think of the time and place he wants to travel to.
Tim doesn't believe his father at first and thinks it's a joke, but then travels back to last year's New Year's Eve, when at midnight he refused a girl's kiss and shamed her. Now he kisses the girl who is now smiling happily at him. The only limits of time travel are in Tim's lifespan, beyond which he cannot travel. After his return, his father asks him what he intends to do with this talent. His first idea, "money", is rejected by his father because it has not brought luck to anyone in his family. Tim relies instead on love, or as he calls it "the mothership", the most difficult task of all.
In the summer Tim's sister Kit Kat receives a visit from the pretty Charlotte, who stays at his parents' house in Cornwall for the entire vacation . Tim feels drawn to Charlotte, but only dares to speak to her on the last evening of her stay. Charlotte tells him that the summer is unfortunately already over, but that it might have been something for them if he had asked them at the beginning of summer. Tim then travels back in time and confesses his feelings to Charlotte shortly after their arrival. She tells him to wait until the end of summer, then we'll see how things go. Now Tim realizes that all time travel cannot change people's feelings.
A short time later, Tim moves to London to start a career as a lawyer. He lives with Harry, a playwright who is an old friend of his father's. The choleric Harry blames Tim as soon as he arrives for forgetting "the best idea he ever had".
When Tim's best friend Jay visits, they both go to a dark restaurant for dinner, where Tim meets the charming Mary. Both find each other very likeable, and so Tim asks her for her phone number after leaving the restaurant. When he gets home, however, Harry informs him that the premiere of his play was a disaster because the lead actor forgot his lines. Tim travels back in time and ensures that the performance is a resounding success.
When he later wants to call Mary, however, he discovers that her phone number has disappeared from his cell phone memory during the time travel - because the meeting with her never took place.
Since Mary came out as a big Kate Moss fan during the conversation , he visits an exhibition of her photographs, where after a long wait he actually meets Mary again, who, however, no longer knows him. Tim learns that Mary now has a boyfriend and asks how exactly they met. He travels back and convinces Mary to have a romantic dinner before his rival shows up at the party. The two become a couple and get married after Mary becomes pregnant. Before that, Tim met Charlotte by chance, who is now making advances to him; but this ultimately only makes it clear to him that Mary is the woman of his life.
On his daughter Posy's first birthday, Tim's sister was in a drunk car accident after quarreling with boyfriend Jimmy again. Tim lets his sister in on his secret. The siblings travel back to the New Year's party together and make sure that Kit Kat and Jimmy don't become a couple. To her amazement, she is married to Jay on her return.
Tim's child, however, is no longer Posy, but a completely strange child was conceived in her place. His father then explains to him that any changes in the period before his children were born always results in changes for his children. Tim cannot change the events leading up to Posy's birth if he does not want to lose his child and must instead see to it that his sister deals with her problem in another way. Kit Kat goes through the relationship with Jimmy and the car accident again, but then finally begins a happy relationship with his best friend Jay on Tim's recommendation. Tim and Mary have a second child and Kit Kat becomes pregnant too.
Tim's father eventually developed lung cancer. In his opinion, the cause of the disease is due to heavy smoking in his youth, which he could not reverse, as an influence on his behavior at that time would also have had an effect on his children, who were born later. In addition, his wife would probably never have gone out with him had he not been a smoker.
Tim's father dies soon after. But Tim always travels back to spend some more time with his father. When Mary reveals to Tim that she would like a third child, Tim is torn. He also wants another child, but after its birth he will never be able to travel back to his father. He speaks to his father again and decides to have the child. During the pregnancy of his wife, he travels back to his father several times.
He visits him one last time shortly before the birth. His father travels back with him for a day at the beach when Tim was a little boy. In the meantime, his father has revealed the secret of his happy life to him, the "true mother ship": Tim should approach everyday once every day and then a second time, without changing anything in the experience, in order to consciously relive everything instead.
Tim proceeds in exactly the same way for a long time before he moves on to not going back in time and instead enjoying every day like his last the first time.
Awards
- Nomination for best fantasy film
- Nomination for Bill Nighy for Best Supporting Actor
- Nomination for the best cut
Reviews
The film received mostly good to very good reviews.
For example, Filmstarts praised the film as a comedy that leaves the “usual” genre paths and appears “unbelievably realistic” and “real” despite the fantastic time travel element. Curtis' film invites "to dream" and is "incredibly touching".
Cinema called the film a “moving cinema experience that“ enchants and transforms ”the viewer."
According to Programmkino.de everything is a question of time "without question one of the strangest but also the most beautiful films of the year".
The conclusion of the film-dienst is divided : “A brilliantly played film as a mixture of romantic comedy and the narrative of an“ extraordinarily ordinary ”life, in which only the eponymous time travel throws a spanner in the works: In itself completely illogical and therefore annoying, they only hinder the flow of history. "
Web links
- About Time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It's all a matter of time on Universal Pictures' German website
- About Time at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Expert opinion from the German Film and Media Assessment - rating particularly valuable
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of release for everything a matter of time . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 941 K).
- ↑ Age rating for everything a question of time . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b The Filmstarts criticism on Everything a question of time at filmstarts.de, accessed on October 16, 2013
- ↑ Cinema 11/2013, page 47
- ↑ It's all a question of time at programmkino.de, accessed on October 16, 2013