Bulworth

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Movie
German title Bulworth
Original title Bulworth
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Warren Beatty
script Warren Beatty,
Jeremy Pikser
production Warren Beatty,
Pieter Jan Brugge ,
Lauren Shuler Donner
music Ennio Morricone
camera Vittorio Storaro
cut Robert C. Jones ,
Billy Weber
occupation

Bulworth is an American comedy film of Warren Beatty from the year 1998 .

action

The Democratic  US Senator Jay Billington Bulworth represents California and is right in front of his re-election. He sits in front of the television, sees the recording of his own campaign appearance and cries.

Bulworth hires a killer to kill him over the next few days. He then negotiates with a representative of the insurance company , for whom he is supposed to block a bill that would oblige insurance companies to accept problematic insurance claims. In addition to a campaign donation in the millions, he is negotiating a life insurance policy worth $ 10 million as a bribe .

Bulworth is accompanied by a television crew. He attends an election meeting in a church where he speaks to African American people . There he talks about the machinations in politics. His campaign manager Dennis Murphy interrupts the meeting by setting off a fire alarm. Bulworth meets the rapper Nina, who heard the speech. She tells him the speech was brave .

Bulworth attends another election meeting during which he insults film industry officials. Then he has fun at a party where he gets drunk and looks for Nina.

Murphy arranges an appearance for Bulworth on a political television show. The senator tells about the background of politics and sings. The startled Murphy turns off the power and pretends it was a technical glitch, while Larry King praises the politician's appearance as unconventional. Bulworth tries to cancel the order for his killing. By then he had survived two attempts to kill him.

Murphy and his colleague are on drugs . You puzzle over the meaning of the senator's new strategy . He had not slept for several days and had partied through and through. On the morning of the election, Nina takes him home with her, where he sleeps all day.

When he wakes up he has won the election by a large margin. It also turns out that Nina was assigned to kill him; however, she does not want to carry out the job. Instead, Bulworth is shot by someone else in front of Nina's eyes.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was next to Wag the Dog the best political satire in recent years. He is cynical and “angry” with “no regrets”. The representations are "solid".

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on May 22, 1998 that the film made him laugh. It is not perfect, the love affair between Bulworth and Nina seems implausible, but the shortcomings are insignificant ("minor complaints").

The lexicon of international films described the film as a “mixture of political farce, social comedy and fairy tale. What at first glance looks like a reality TV reportage turns out to be an artistically sophisticated film in which at most a few unchecked clumsy scenes disturb. "

Awards

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1999. It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in 1999 in the categories of Best Film - Comedy or Musical , Best Actor - Comedy or Musical, and Best Screenplay.

The script won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award in 1999. He won the 1999 Political Film Society Award for Exposé .

Warren Beatty was nominated for the Golden Lion in 1998 . He was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award in 1999 for his role . Halle Berry and Don Cheadle were nominated for the Image Award in 1999.

Ennio Morricone was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1999. The film was nominated in 1999 in two categories for the Golden Reel Award ( Motion Picture Sound Editors ).

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

background

Filming took place in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills . Production costs were estimated at 30 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 26.5 million in US cinemas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Bulworth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 82 385 V / DVD).
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. ↑ Bulworth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Filming locations for Bulworth
  6. ^ Business Data for Bulworth