Brooklyn - A love between two worlds

Movie
German title	Brooklyn - A love between two worlds
Original title	Brooklyn
Country of production	United Kingdom , Ireland , Canada
original language	English
Publishing year	2015
length	112 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 JMK 6
Rod
Director	John Crowley
script	Nick Hornby
production	Finola Dwyer , Amanda Posey
music	Michael Brook
camera	Yves Bélanger
cut	Jake Roberts
occupation
Saoirse Ronan : Eilis Lacey Emory Cohen : Antonio "Tony" Fiorello Domhnall Gleeson : Jim Farrell Jim Broadbent : Father Flood Julie Walters : Madge Kehoe Bríd Brennan : Miss Kelly Jane Brennan : Mrs. Lacey Fiona Glascott : Rose Lacey Jessica Paré : Miss Fortini

Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds (Original Title: Brooklyn ) is a British - Irish - Canadian drama from Irish director John Crowley from 2015 with Saoirse Ronan in the lead role. It is based on the novel of the same name by Colm Tóibín . The writer wrote Nick Hornby .

content

The film tells the story of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman who emigrated to the United States in 1951.

Eilis lives with her widowed mother and sister Rose in the Irish town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, and works on weekends as a temp in a small shop. Rose finds her a job in Brooklyn with church help . During the sometimes stormy crossing to New York , Eilis suffers from seasickness. Her American cabin neighbor takes care of her and helps her with the further crossing.

Once in Brooklyn, Eilis lives in a boarding house and works as a saleswoman in a department store. In letters to her sister she describes her severe homesickness. Father Flood, who has already arranged her work and accommodation, pays her an accounting course . At an Irish dance evening, she meets Tony, who comes from an Italian family. The two become a couple. However, Rose dies unexpectedly, and after a telephone conversation with her desperate mother, Eilis decides to visit her. Tony fears losing Eilis and persuades her to secretly marry him before they go home. Back in Ireland, Eilis quickly settles in again, but hides her wedding.

She postpones her return trip to attend the wedding of her childhood friend. She befriends Jim, a young man from a good family, and takes over her late sister's job. She begins to stop opening Tony's letters. When Miss Kelly, the owner of the little shop, tells her that she heard about her wedding through friends in Brooklyn, Eilis confesses to Tony and travels back to Brooklyn.

publication

The film had its world premiere on January 26, 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival . Fox Searchlight Pictures secured the distribution rights the following day. The film was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival and released in US theaters on November 4, 2015. The German theatrical release was on January 21, 2016.

reception

Andreas Stava keeps the movie on film starts for "heart-warming as intelligent cinema feeling with a touch of melancholy and an outstanding actress."

Birgit Roschy says on epd Film that “the price of change […] is not glossed over in this unsentimental and heartbreaking film”.

Till Kadritzke from critic.de saw "an extremely precise, modest, old-fashioned film [...] for which subtlety fortunately does not mean denying the great drama that is in it".

In 2016, Brooklyn ranked 48th in a BBC poll of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .

music

Two members of the Irish folk formation “The Gloaming” can be heard and seen in the film: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Iarla Ó Lionáird, who sings the song “Casadh an tSúgáin” (Twisting the Rope) as a worker for Christmas.

Awards

Saoirse Ronan at the 2016 British Academy Film Awards ceremony

• British Independent Film Awards 2015: Nominations in the categories leading actress: Saoirse Ronan , supporting actor: Domhnall Gleeson , supporting actress: Julie Walters , screenplay and casting
• Denver International Film Festival 2015: Audience Award - Best Feature Film
• Evening Standard British Film Awards 2016: Best Feature Film
• Hamptons International Film Festival 2015: Best New Actor: Emory Cohen
• Hollywood Film Awards 2015: New Hollywood Award - Saoirse Ronan
• Mill Valley Film Festival 2015: Audience Award
• New York Film Critics Circle Award 2015: Best Actress - Saoirse Ronan
• Vancouver International Film Festival 2015: Audience Award
• Virginia Film Festival 2015: Audience Award - Best Feature Film
• British Academy Film Awards 2016
  • Won in the Best British Film category
  • Nomination for Best Actress - Saoirse Ronan
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Julie Walters
  • Nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category
  • Nomination in the Best Costume Design category - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
  • Nomination for Best Make-up and Best Hairstyles - Morna Ferguson and Lorraine Glynn
• Academy Awards 2016
  • Nomination in the Best Film category
  • Nomination in the category Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan
  • Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Nick Hornby

Web links

• Brooklyn - A love between two worlds in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2015 (PDF; test number: 156 346 K).
2. ↑ Age rating for Brooklyn - A love between two worlds . Youth Media Commission .
3. ↑ Bory's Kit: Sundance: Fox Searchlight Nabs 'Brooklyn' . In: HollywoodReporter.com . January 27, 2015. Accessed November 24, 2015.
4. ↑ Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds Filmstarts.de, accessed February 7, 2016.
5. ↑ Review of Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds epf film, December 28, 2015, accessed on February 7, 2016.
6. ↑ Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds Critic.de, January 21, 2016, accessed February 7, 2016.
7. ↑ English-language Wikipedia article on Iarla Ó Lionáird