Alice's restaurant

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Movie
German title Alice's restaurant
Original title Alice's restaurant
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1969
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Arthur Penn
script Venable Herndon
Arthur Penn
production Hillard Elkins
Joseph Manduke , Florin Film Studio
music Arlo Guthrie
camera Michael Nebbia
cut Dede Allen
occupation

Alice's Restaurant is an American movie from 1969, which on the song Alice's Restaurant Massacree of Arlo Guthrie is based. This tragicomic music film was directed by Arthur Penn , who also wrote the script together with Venable Herndon . The film had its world premiere on August 20, 1969 in the USA. In Germany he was first seen in the cinema on February 19, 1970.

action

The church, the site of the story, is now the seat of the Guthrie Center

In the late 1960s in the United States: To provisionally from military service to be exempt, enrolls Arlo Guthrie for a college -Studies one. Of course, the sensitive but also rebellious boy doesn't last very long there. After his first warning for alleged damage to property (in reality, Arlo was provoked into a fight by a group of " rednecks ") he voluntarily packs his things and returns to New York .

After a visit to his terminally ill father Woody Guthrie , he hitchhiked on to Alice and Ray, hippies and friends of his who bought a church to build a home for themselves and a meeting place for like-minded people. In order to be able to finance herself, Alice opens a restaurant with the help of her friends and is soon overwhelmed because she does not have enough time to be there for her friends, to pursue her own interests and to run a restaurant at the same time.

Another problem is Shelly, an ex- junkie who lives with Alice and Ray to stay clean with them far from the big city . Soon more develops between Alice and Shelly, which in turn leads to tension in the community.

Arlo turn is again patterned , but then - because of his insubordination and because he criminal record is - optional. The reason for the criminal record was illegal dumping of rubbish on the roadside.

The end of the film is relatively open; after Alice and Ray get married a second time, it becomes apparent that their relationship lacks harmony and cohesion. The last scene shows Alice in her wedding dress, her face doubtful.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of November 11, 1969 that Alice's Restaurant is not a great film, but you never get the feeling that it wants to be ( It isn't a great film, but you never get the feeling that it wanted to be ).

The film magazine VideoWoche said the film was a critical and largely melancholy hymn to the hippies and their communities.

The evangelical film observer has a less positive opinion : "Despite all the advance praise, it is only moderately entertaining, not provocative for anyone, and at best unconsciously addresses the reasons for the end of the hippie movement."

The lexicon of international films, on the other hand, judges quite differently : "Narrated in the wistful tone of a retrospective chronicle, but funny, original and staged with gentle anarchist humor by" New Hollywood "director Arthur Penn".

The state film evaluation agency Wiesbaden awarded the work the rating “valuable”.

Awards

Arthur Penn was nominated for Best Director at the 1970 Academy Awards, but had to admit defeat to John Schlesinger ( Asphalt Cowboy ) . Arlo Guthrie received a nomination for the British Film Awards for Best Score .

At the 1970 Laurel Awards , Alice's Restaurant was ranked 3rd in the Best Comedy category . The Writers Guild of America nominated Venable Herndon and Arthur Penn for Best Original Screenplay in a Drama .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alice's Restaurant Massacree - lyrics of the song
  2. ↑ Alice's Restaurant , Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
  3. ↑ Amazon.de
  4. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 95/1970
  5. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 81