human child

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Movie
German title human child
Original title Beloved
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 171 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jonathan Demme
script Akosua Busia ,
Richard LaGravenese ,
Adam Brooks
production Jonathan Demme,
Kate Forte ,
Gary Goetzman ,
Edward Saxon ,
Oprah Winfrey
music Rachel Portman
camera Tak Fujimoto
cut Andy Keir ,
Carol Littleton
occupation

Human Child (Original title: Beloved ) is an American drama from 1998 . It was directed by Jonathan Demme , who also co-produced the film. The script was written by Akosua Busia , Richard LaGravenese and Adam Brooks based on the novel of the same name by Toni Morrison .

action

The action begins shortly after the Civil War in Cincinnati . Former slave Sethe sees a ghost in her visions. A little later, her two sons move away and never return.

Ten years later, Sethe lives with her daughter Denver. She invites Paul D Garner, who once worked on the plantation from which she fled years ago after being beaten, to join her. Later a woman appears who is referred to as a human child. She befriends Denver after an argument. Human child reveals that she is from another world. Sethe thinks she is a reincarnation of her daughter who died years ago.

A few months later, Paul D's human child becomes pregnant. Sethe has a nervous breakdown and loses her job. Human child disappears. Paul D promises Sethe to work with Denver to look after her.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film shows “the emotional and physical wounds of the victims of slavery in fantastic and poetic images” . His "handling of the present story and flashbacks that illustrate the memory of the main characters" is "virtuoso" . The film hits “the subtle tone of the original” , which it condenses “into an exciting movie theater” . He does not show the events chronologically, but resembles "in his memory scraps and unprocessed fragments of the past a nightmare with sometimes frightening, but also iconic images" .

Cinema magazine wrote that the director was “all too slavishly following the novel” . He finds "no other language than endless screaming and crying to the point of arbitrariness for the accumulation of states of emergency" . The film adopts the “magical realism of the book” , but knows “nothing else to do with the seemingly impossible than to let the ghosts off the chain and equip everything with symbolic anger for meaning” .

Awards

Colleen Atwood was nominated for an Oscar in 1999 for Best Costume Design . Kimberly Elise won the Golden Satellite Award in 1999 . The seven nominations for the same award included those for the script, film music, cinematography, costumes, and portrayal of Thandie Newton.

Danny Glover won the Image Award in 1999 . For Best Picture , Oprah Winfrey, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton and Beah Richards were nominated for the same award. The film, the script, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey and Kimberly Elise were nominated for the Black Film Award in 1999. Kimberly Elise was awarded in 1999 as Most Promising Actress the Chicago Film Critics Association Award ; she was nominated for the same award for Best Supporting Actress as was the cameraman Tak Fujimoto. Colleen Atwood was nominated for the Costume Designers Guild Award in 1999.

backgrounds

The film was in Philadelphia , in the Landis Valley Museum (in Lancaster , Pennsylvania ) in New Castle ( Delaware ) and in Fair Hill ( Maryland turned). Its production amounted to an estimated 53 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 22.85 million in US cinemas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Human child in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 11, 2008Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  2. ↑ Cinema , accessed September 11, 2008
  3. ^ Filming locations for Beloved , accessed September 11, 2008
  4. ↑ Box office / business for Beloved , accessed September 11, 2008