Aberdeen (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Aberdeen |
| Original title | Aberdeen |
| Country of production | Great Britain , Norway |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Petter Moland |
| script | Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen |
| production |
Petter J. Borgli , Ben Leon Castro , John McGrath , Tom Remlov |
| music | Zbigniew Preisner |
| camera | Philip Øgaard |
| cut | Sophie Hesselberg |
| occupation | |
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Aberdeen is a British - Norwegian film drama directed by Hans Petter Moland from 2000. The leading roles are Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey , who as father and daughter have to pull themselves together reluctantly to find their dying mother, played by Charlotte , in Aberdeen Rampling to pay one last visit.
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Up-and-coming London lawyer Kaisa receives a call from her mother Helen while she is in bed with her newest lover. Helen, who has cancer, asks her daughter a favor. Kaisa is supposed to bring her alcoholic father Tomas, who lives in Norway, to Aberdeen, where Helen is in the hospital. Helen wants to see Tomas, whom she left 15 years ago, again before she dies. Kaisa, who at first doesn't know how bad things are for her mother, travels by plane to Oslo , gets a rental car and finds her father in a local pub. Because her drunk father is not allowed to board the plane for safety reasons, Kaisa decides to take him to Bergen to take the ferry from there. When Tomas vomits on her expensive costume on the way, Kaisa wants to go swimming in a lake. However, she cannot swim. After a stop at a motel, where Kaisa washed her things, they finally arrive at the port of Bergen.
On the ferry to Harwich , Tomas makes his daughter laugh unexpectedly. Kaisa, who sniffs cocaine in secret , gets a nosebleed as a result. When they drive past oil rigs that Tomas used to work on, Kaisa accuses him of not having been there enough for them when she was a child. Once in Harwich, they drive to London, where Kaisa tells her boss that she needs more time to take care of her family affairs. On the subsequent journey towards Scotland, Kaisa bursts a tire. A truck driver named Clive offers them his help and takes Kaisa and Tomas to the next rest stop. There Tomas is nervously waiting for the towing service, as there are his beer cans and a bottle of whiskey in Kaisa's rental car. In the repaired rental car, Kaisa and Tomas finally drive on.
When Tomas urinates in a flower bed while resting in Leeds and falls over, Kaisa asks two police officers to put her father in a cell for the night. While Tomas is sleeping off his drunkenness there, Kaisa goes to a bar and meets Clive again. Although Clive warns her that sex with him is more boring than snooker , Kaisa spends the night with him. The next morning she picks up Tomas from the police, who then steals her wallet and drives away in a taxi. Kaisa asks Clive to help her find her father. They find him surrounded by several young men who make fun of spraying Tomas, who is begging for alcohol, with beer. Because one of the men thinks Tomas owes him 50 pounds, a fight breaks out. Clive, Tomas and Kaisa, who is hit several times in the face, are able to flee with the rental car. When the man who wants his money finds her again, he is killed by a car.
Clive drives father and daughter on towards Aberdeen. The following night they are accommodated in a trailer park. In the morning Tomas leads his daughter to a ruined monastery and puts on her - as she did as a child - a clown nose that she had carried on her key ring for years. Because they run out of money, Kaisa sells a packet of her cocaine in Edinburgh and then buys Tomas a suit and a new dress for himself. When Tomas confesses to her at a gas station that he is not her biological father, Kaisa sniffs the rest of her cocaine in the gas station toilet. While Clive is at the wheel while driving, Kaisa - intoxicated by the drugs - sits on Tomas and wants to kiss him, but Tomas rejects her.
When they finally arrive in Aberdeen and want to visit Helen in the hospital, a nurse does not let her through because Tomas smells of alcohol and Kaisa furiously attacks her. In a hotel, Clive says goodbye to Tomas and then sets off on the journey home. Tomas, to whom Clive tried to make it clear that he finally has to look after his daughter, goes to the hotel bar and orders a glass of water instead of alcohol. When Tomas and Kaisa are finally allowed to visit Helen at their sickbed, she assures them that they are father and daughter. However, Tomas and Kaisa do a blood test to be sure. During a check by two police officers, a package of cocaine is found in Kaisa's rental car shortly afterwards. Tomas says it is his and goes to jail for Kaisa. After her mother dies, Kaisa feels lonely. She leaves Clive a message on his answering machine and visits Tomas in prison. According to the test results, Tomas and Kaisa are not related to each other. However, Kaisa is ready to tell the police the truth and go to jail for Tomas. Tomas, who thinks that he was the only father she has ever had, asks her - as before - to stand on his feet and dance with him. Kaisa hugs him dearly.
background
Aberdeen was the third directorial work by the Norwegian Hans Petter Moland and also his first English-language film. According to Moland, most of the road movies are about escape, but Aberdeen is about "reaching a goal". Moland drew inspiration for Aberdeen from a case of alcohol addiction in his own family. Stellan Skarsgård played an alcoholic in his second film, Kjærlighetens kjøtere, from 1995. Aberdeen was shot in Norway and Scotland on a budget of £ 3.8 million. Filming locations were Oslo, Bergen , Glasgow , Glencoe and Saltcoats . Further recordings were made in the Norsk film studio in Jar.
At the beginning of the film and during the drive, the song I Get Along Without You Very Well , interpreted by Chet Baker , can be heard twice . At the end of the film, Skarsgård sings the song Ballads om Fredrik Åkare och Cecilia Lind by Cornelis Vreeswijk .
The world premiere took place on July 5, 2000 at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic . On September 8, 2000, Aberdeen was released in Norwegian cinemas. This was followed by screenings at other film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany the film was shown for the first time on October 14, 2001 by N3 on television.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes Aberdeen as a “densely narrated and wonderfully played road movie about a family reunification of the unusual kind, in which the young leading actress in particular can excel”. Stellan Skarsgård found Cinema "frighteningly good". How father and daughter change "on this journey, the road movie depicts with sensitivity and insight". The film is “[hard] stuff”, but “played excellently”.
In The Independent , Anna Bryson compared Aberdeen with Lars von Trier's film Breaking the Waves (1996), in which Skarsgård had also played a Norwegian who works on an oil rig and hooks up with a Scot. In Moland's film, Skarsgård played an alcoholic "more vividly and authentically" than Bryson had ever seen on stage or screen. His “mature, virtuoso performance” was “terrific”, but “not really a surprise”. Much more “astonishing” is “the performance of the comparatively inexperienced Headey”. First of all, attention is drawn to “their fascinating beauty”, but in the end one is “hypnotized by their ability to show ugliness, arrogance, reconciling humor and childlike vulnerability”. In all seriousness, Aberdeen is also a "very funny film".
Awards
Ian Hart was awarded a prize for Best Actor at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival . The film was also nominated for the crystal globe in Karlsbad . At the Nordic Film Days Lübeck in November 2000 , Aberdeen was awarded the NDR film prize together with the Danish contribution Die Bank . Cinematographer Philip Øgaard won the Bronze Frog for his work on Aberdeen at the Camerimage Festival . Stellan Skarsgård received a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Actor . Aberdeen won the Audience Award for Best Drama at the Hamptons International Film Festival .
In 2001, Aberdeen was nominated for Amanda for Best Picture. At the Brussels European Film Festival, Lena Headey received the Silver Iris for Best Actress; the film also won the Young European Jury Prize. Hans Petter Moland and Kristin Amundsen won an award in the Best Screenplay category at the Milan International Film Festival . At the Damascus Film Festival, Moland received the gold award for his film. Ian Hart won another award for Best Actor at the Festival du cinéma nordique .
In addition, Stellan Skarsgård and Lena Headey were nominated for the Chlotrudis Award in 2003 in the categories of Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively.
German version
The German dubbed version was created by Studio Hamburg Synchron . The dialogue book was written by Renate Pichler , who also directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Tomas | Stellan Skarsgård | Christian Redl |
| Kaisa | Lena Headey | Marion Martienzen |
| Clive | Ian Hart | Rainer Schmitt |
| Helen | Charlotte Rampling | Marlen Diekhoff |
| Sara | Louise Goodall | Monika Barth |
| Perkins | Jason Hetherington | Oliver Reinhard |
Web links
- Aberdeen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aberdeen at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Most road-movies are about escape [...] but Aberdeen is about trying to reach a goal." Quoted from Anna Bryson: A lush tribute to northern soul . In: The Independent , August 23, 2000.
- ↑ Anna Bryson: A lush tribute to northern soul . In: The Independent , August 23, 2000.
- ^ David Martin-Jones: Scotland: Global Cinema. Genres, Modes and Identities . Edinburgh University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7486-3391-3 , p. 64.
- ↑ Aberdeen. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ “[H] is sensitive script and direction provide Skarsgard with the opportunity to create an alcoholic more appallingly and poignantly authentic than any other I have seen on stage or screen. [...] The mature virtuoso performance from the Norwegian star is terrific, but not exactly a surprise. What is more startling is the achievement of the comparatively inexperienced Headey […]. You start by watching Headey mainly for her arresting beauty, but end up hypnotized by her capacity to project ugliness, arrogance, redeeming humor and sheer childish vulnerability. [...] It is important to add that for all its seriousness, Aberdeen is a very funny movie. " Anna Bryson: A lush tribute to northern soul . In: The Independent , August 23, 2000.
- ↑ cf. festival-cinema-nordique.asso.fr
- ↑ Aberdeen. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 22, 2020 .