Somewhere
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Somewhere |
| Original title | Somewhere |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sofia Coppola |
| script | Sofia Coppola |
| production |
Fred Roos Francis Ford Coppola Roman Coppola Paul Rassam G. Mac Brown |
| music | Phoenix |
| camera | Harris Savides |
| cut | Sarah Flack |
| occupation | |
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Somewhere is a feature film by Sofia Coppola . It premiered on September 3, 2010 at the Venice Film Festival , where it was awarded the Golden Lion on September 11 . The film opened in German cinemas on November 11, 2010.
action
The actor Johnny Marco is in his thirties and, after some film successes, goes about his work rather listlessly. He travels aimlessly on the highways in Los Angeles with his sports car. He has to be reminded of his doctorate appointments regularly by his agent. He cures an arm injury that he sustained while falling down stairs at a party in the famous Chateau Marmont Hotel . There he tries to compensate for his loneliness and boredom with parties, alcohol and one-night stands. But he falls asleep even with the performances of two pole dance dancers whom he has ordered to his room.
Johnny receives structure in his life from the unexpected visit of his eleven-year-old daughter Cleo, who comes from a long-broken relationship. After her mother Layla wants to take care of herself, Cleo shares her father's life for a while. She takes a critical look at her father's casual women acquaintances, but does not blame him. Both of them spend their time unspectacularly playing video games or sunbathing by the pool, and for Johnny there are some happy moments. He is accompanied by his daughter at a television award ceremony in Italy. Incidentally, he comes to the realization that he is actually still a child himself and must finally grow up. During a phone conversation with Cleo's mother, he breaks down and confesses that he is "nothing". While Johnny's character slowly begins to change, Cleo leaves for summer camp. Johnny falls into a deep sadness. He checks out of the hotel and drives off in his Ferrari. He gets out on a country road, leaves the car and continues on foot.
Reviews
When it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, the film was largely positively received by German-speaking critics. Thematically, Coppola would tie in with her hit film Lost in Translation .
According to Susanne Ostwald ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ) , the director would "make the void and the still time" "almost physically tangible." Although Somewhere did not come up with a "sensationally original (n) narrative idea", it was a "wonderful film". Peter Zander ( Die Welt ) also remarked that Coppola observed her characters “wonderfully laconic in long, slow sequences”. Tobias Kniebe ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) spoke of a "definitive, up-to-the-minute study of that world-wide madness circus [...] that we constructed around the idea of celebrities." It was a film about a generation that everything would have been made too easy, "a film about the absolute, existential tiredness that can hide behind the face that we all show the world every day." Michael Althen ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) remarked that it was Coppola's trick to get on board when “it has already gone wrong”. "How relationships work or even go wrong is not her (Coppola's) topic". More precisely and deeply described than in Somewhere is "the sad everyday life of the star cult hardly". For Marco Rauch, the plot is… not particularly original, but it's the way Sofia Coppola tells her story and how her characters move through it, which still make the film something worth seeing. Susan Vahabzadeh said in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "At some point, when the generation to which 39-year-old Coppola belongs, looks back on her life, one may see what a great chronicler she is."
production
Filming took place in June and July 2009 in Los Angeles and Italy.
Apparently Coppola's own experiences as the daughter of the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola flowed into the portrayal in the film. Also Federico Fellini's Toby Damnit and Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon are said to have influenced the film.
Sofia Coppola wanted to show the contrast between the world of show business Johnny Marcos and that of his daughter. “The girl stands for the real thing in a world in which nothing is real.” Coppola would have been interested in characters who are in a transition phase. “This moment, when you have to go into yourself and cut yourself off from the outside world, this phase interests me”. As in her Oscar- winning film Lost in Translation , the story of Somewhere takes place in a hotel. Coppola, who, as the daughter of film director Francis Ford Coppola herself, spent a lot of time in hotels, sees them as “a world of their own” and “places of transition” that are appropriate for her characters, since they are also in transition.
publication
Focus Features is expected to release the film in North America and most other countries. Exceptions are France ( Pathé ), Japan ( Tohokushinsha Film ) and Germany, where the film is distributed by Tobis Film . The official launch of Somewhere in Germany was November 11, 2010. In the USA, Somewhere was not released until December 22, 2010.
Web links
- Somewhere in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the film
- Somewhere at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Somewhere . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 845 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Somewhere . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Publication date according to IMDb
- ↑ Susanne Ostwald: Einstürzende Innenwelten at nzz.ch, September 4, 2010 (accessed on September 12, 2010)
- ↑ Peter Zander: Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere" is the first highlight at welt.de, September 3, 2010, accessed on September 12, 2010
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: World-wide Irsinns circus at sueddeutsche.de, September 3, 2010, accessed on September 12, 2010
- ↑ Michael Althen: The void of true feelings at faz.net, September 4, 2010, accessed on September 12, 2010
- ↑ Maro Rauch: Somewhere-Filmkritik at press-play.at, September 30, 2010, accessed on September 30, 2010
- ^ In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , No. 260, November 10, 2010, p. 11.
- ↑ Sofia Coppola: il mio nuovo film sulle orme del Fellini più dark , Corriere della Sera , August 26, 2010, accessed on September 12, 2010
- ↑ Stephen DORFF , interview . Retrieved September 12, 2010
- ↑ cf. Video contribution ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at arte.tv, September 4, 2010 (accessed on September 12, 2010)
- ↑ Sofia Coppola books Marmont film ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Variety , April 16, 2009. Retrieved September 12, 2010
