Alice no longer lives here
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alice no longer lives here |
| Original title | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | Robert Getchell |
| production |
Audrey Maas David Susskind |
| music | Richard LaSalle |
| camera | Kent L. Wakeford |
| cut | Marcia Lucas |
| occupation | |
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Original Title: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ) is an American drama directed by Martin Scorsese from 1974 with Ellen Burstyn in the title role, which won her an Oscar.
action
The moderately happily married housewife Alice Hyatt is forced to look after herself and her teenage son Tommy in the suburbs after the unexpected accidental death of her husband Donald. On the trip to their Californian homeland, they both end up in a small town, where Alice works as a singer in a bar and lives in a motel . After a brief affair with the violent Ben, she escapes and ends up in Tucson , Arizona . While Tommy becomes friends with the cheeky Audrey, Alice works as a waitress in a busy fast food shop. The shame of her colleague Flo drives her crazy at first, but the looming romance with the likeable farmer David keeps Alice, who is only passing through, longer than planned.
Remarks
- Originally conceived for Diana Ross , Barbra Streisand later turned down the offered lead role because she felt too young at the age of 32.
- The opening scene pays homage to The Magical Land .
- The film was Martin Scorsese's first international success; this enabled him to tackle the film Taxi Driver artistically independently .
- Based on the hit film was 1976 to 1985 the series Alice (dt Title:. Lunch with a bite ) with Linda Lavin in the lead role, which for 1978 and 1979 a Golden Globe as best actress in a comedy - series won. In 1979 the series received the award for best comedy show.
Approval from 12 years
After a long discussion, the FSK working committee found, according to the minutes of September 17, 1975, that sequences of the film “partly overwhelmed the age group of 12-year-olds, partly brought with it the danger of brutality.” However, it was to be credited that “This film conveys real life - albeit at times hard real life - unadulterated.” The film can therefore be expected of 12-year-olds and can be seen at a profit by them. In the Federal Republic had Alice lives here no longer on September 26, 1975 premiere.
Reviews
“[E] in a gorgeous road movie , whose fascination has remained unbroken to this day. Great acting improvisation , from the young Harvey Keitel, who plays a choleric Dr.-Jekyll-Mr.-Hyde cowboy, to the prepubescent Jodie Foster to the great Ellen Burstyn. "
"Sensual, undogmatic women's film ."
“A drama festival: […] While Burstyn's own adopted son appears in a supporting role, she engages in delicious screwball verbal battles with her precocious film child, Alfred Lutter. Director Martin Scorsese was enthusiastic about her tragic-comic maneuverability: 'Ellen switches to slapstick in the middle of the most terrible situation'. "
“What happens to her on this trip culminates in one of the most astute, weirdest and sometimes painful portraits of an American woman I have ever seen. [...] The film was both attacked and defended by feminists , but I think it belongs, beyond ideologies, perhaps in the realm of contemporary myths and love stories. "
"An excellently played and lively staged, but not very differentiated film about the path of a disappointed housewife to a certain degree of independence, which does not consistently bring the topic of emancipation to an end."
Awards
The film won the British Film Awards in the categories of "Best Picture", "Best Screenplay", "Best Actress" ( Ellen Burstyn ) and "Best Supporting Actress" ( Diane Ladd ).
Nominated for three Academy Awards (Diane Ladd for Best Supporting Actress and Robert Getchell for Best Original Screenplay), Ellen Burstyn ultimately won Best Actress . She protested against the withdrawal of Liv Ullmann's nomination for Scenes of a Marriage by staying away from the award, which is why director Martin Scorsese accepted the award for her.
The film also adopted in 1975 in the competition for the Golden Palm of the International Film Festival of Cannes in part.
literature
- Jürgen Kniep: “No youth approval!”. Film censorship in West Germany 1949-1990 . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0638-7 .
Web links
- Alice Does not Live Here Anymore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alice Does not Live Here Anymore atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Karyn Kay, Gerald Peary: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore - Waitressing for Warner’s in Jump Cut , No. 7, 1975 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: No youth approval! P. 268.
- ↑ Martin Rosefeldt Alice no longer lives here ( page no longer accessible , search in web archives ). arte.tv, January 14, 2005, accessed January 26, 2009.
- ↑ Alice no longer lives here on cinema.de, accessed on September 18, 2018.
- ↑ Jens Hinrichsen: The Burstyn Method - For the 75th birthday of the American actress Ellen Burstyn . In: film-dienst on filmzentrale.com, accessed on January 26, 2009.
- ↑ Roger Ebert: Alice no longer lives here . In: Chicago Sun-Times , December 1, 1974, translated by Andreas Thomas on filmzentrale.com, accessed January 26, 2009.
- ↑ Alice no longer lives here. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 19, 2016 .