A film with me in it
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A film with me in it |
| Original title | A film with me in it |
| Country of production | Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ian Fitzgibbon |
| script | Mark Doherty |
| production |
Alan Moloney Susan Mullen |
| music | Denis Woods |
| camera | Seamus Deasy |
| cut | Tony Cranstoun |
| occupation | |
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A Film with Me in It is a 2008 Irish comedy film directed by Ian Fitzgibbon .
action
The unsuccessful actor Mark lives with his girlfriend Sally, his twin brother David in need of care and the dog Jersey in an apartment in need of renovation. A window keeps falling down on its own, the chandelier wobbles alarmingly and the light in the kitchen flickers. Mark spends a lot of time with his friend Pierce, an alcoholic, equally unsuccessful screenwriter who bets his little money and lives in the same house. Both are in arrears with their rents, so that the unloved landlord Jack is constantly on their necks.
Pierce dreams of the ultimate film and, together with Mark, is constantly looking for good ideas for a script. When the sensible Sally leaves Mark, the disaster takes its course. Without Sally in the apartment, he hears a loud crash. The shelf in the hallway fell on the dog below and killed him. Desperate, he sits in a room with his brother, who is in a wheelchair, playing the clarinet. Suddenly the chandelier loosens itself from its anchorage and kills David. Then the landlord appears Jack and wants to repair the kitchen light. As he climbs onto a small stool, he loses his balance, falls to the floor, and rams the screwdriver down his own neck. Mark informs Pierce and asks him for help. While they are both in the apartment, Sally comes home to pack her things. She sees the dead David, passes out and dies from Mark's clarinet stand, which digs into her chest.
Knowing that Mark and Pierce will not believe so many unfortunate coincidences, both begin to dispose of the bodies and come up with a story. Unfortunately, a police officer shows up for noise pollution, but Pierce knocks her out. They handcuff her to David's wheelchair and explain the story of how it happened. When she tries to escape through the open window, it falls on her head and kills her.
But Mark and Pierce have now found a solution. They clean the apartment and put the bodies of David, Sally and Jack in Mark's car. You put on David Mark's necklace and put the clarinet on. Then they set the car on fire and throw it down a slope. The policewoman put them in front of the house and pretended that a flower pot had killed them. Mark sits in the wheelchair and pretends to be his brother David, Pierce is his carer. So both are now waiting for the police to arrive.
At the end of the film, Pierce makes a film that describes exactly these incidents. Mark sits next to it in the wheelchair and smiles.
criticism
“There is always something funny about death. Old master Alfred Hitchcock already knew that. Irish TV director Ian Fitzgibbon also knows how to conjure up a black, humorous comedy out of tragic and fatal accidents. His low-budget production “A Film With Me In It” follows the tradition of Danny Boyle's “Little Murders Among Friends” or its female counterpart “Serial Lover” from France. However, he does not achieve their speed and refreshing originality. Thanks to the perfect cast, “A Film With Me In It” unfolds the charm of a typical British working class comedy. Main actor Mark Doherty, who wrote his loser role as the screenwriter of the film for himself, conveys the authentic atmosphere. There is something so touching about the absolute failure of all his efforts to clean up that one is ready to simply accept even the crudest turns of phrase. "
“Ian Fitzgibbon is an Irish television writer who has appeared on some of the most successful television shows in the country. He teamed up with actor and author Mark Doherty ("Breakfast on Pluto") for this black-humored crime comedy specializing in macabre situation comedy about two unsuccessful film geeks (authors and actors) and their fatal attempts to make an already messed up situation even worse . Real satire meets horror thriller meets sitcom, many could, yes, should feel addressed. "
Web links
- A Film with Me in It in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A Film with Me in It filmstarts.de
- ^ A Film with Me in It ( Memento from December 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) video.de