All Beauty Must Die
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | All Beauty Must Die |
| Original title | All good things |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrew Jarecki |
| script |
Marcus Hinchey Marc Smerling |
| production | Andrew Jarecki Michael London Bruna Papandrea Marc Smerling |
| music | Rob Simonsen |
| camera | Michael Seresin |
| cut |
David Rosenbloom Shelby Seal |
| occupation | |
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All Beauty Must Die (Original title: All Good Things ) is an American crime film directed by Andrew Jarecki in 2010. The film is based on real events and depicts the involvement of the American Robert Durst , the son of real estate tycoon Seymour Durst , in three serious crimes.
action
David Marks is the son and designated successor of wealthy New York real estate tycoon Sanford Marks. When he was seven years old, his mother threw herself to her death from her own home before his eyes. In 1971 his father hired him to do plumbing in a rented apartment in order to save money. In the process, he meets the both attractive and penniless Katie McCarthy, who has just moved in and whose great desire is to study medicine. She accompanies the charming and handsome David to a reception, where his father greets Katie with great reserve. David seeks confrontation with his father by not entering the family business a little later, but opening a health food store called "All Good Things" in Vermont with Katie , where he has a happy relationship. Everything seems to be perfect. David proposes marriage to Katie, and a short time later the two are a beaming couple. But Sanford lets Katie feel at every encounter that he does not see her as part of the family.
After his father puts David under massive pressure and appeals to family history , David gives in and returns to New York with Katie. From now on they live in luxury, befitting their rank, and David is entrusted with the first collection of money from dodgy commercial tenants. When Katie David confronts her ardent desire to have children, he reacts dismissively and begins to change considerably. Katie notices that he is talking to himself. David's childhood friend, Deborah Lehrman, explains the circumstances after his mother's suicide . A week later he had pushed aside his mother's earlier existence. On Deborah's advice, David consults a psychiatrist .
Katie's life changes suddenly when she becomes pregnant. Completely frantic and aggressive, David forces her to abort the child the next day. At the same time, David's father puts him under considerable pressure in a business sense. The marriage between the disillusioned and deeply disappointed Katie and the increasingly introverted and eerie David exists only on paper. Some time later Katie successfully applies for a place at university without David's knowledge. This independence brings the barrel to overflow. At a party with Katie's family and friends, he grabs her by the hair and pulls her to the car. Katie moves out and wants to separate. But the Marks took legal precautions so that she wouldn't receive any child support. David is disempowered by his father and brother and isolates himself more and more. Due to economic pressures, Katie returns to him and discovers that he killed her beloved dog, Ivan. Full of anger and horror, she confronts him armed with a shovel.
Katie disappeared without a trace in 1982. When she supposedly left David in the country house in the evening, she was seen by her doorman and in the morning by the caretaker in front of her apartment. 18 years later, the prosecutor opens the case again with David Marks as the main suspect. David moves to Galveston , Texas in November 2000 and lives there under a different name and disguised as a woman. He meets his neighbor Malvern Bump, who is under financial pressure. Prosecutors are now also targeting Deborah, who has written a novel that has strange parallels to Katie's disappearance. She puts David under pressure and demands more money, otherwise she would testify. Deborah, wearing a wig, had played her part near her apartment the night before Katie's disappearance. David sends Malvern to Deborah in Los Angeles on false pretenses . This one kills them. When he realizes that he was only being used by David, he ambushes him in the apartment. But David kills Malvern, as he describes in court, in self-defense, and removes the body.
Katie Marks is still missing to this day. David Marks lives in Florida and was sentenced to only nine months in jail for improperly disposing of a body.
criticism
“A mix of married drama and crime thriller based on real incidents, which tells of latent structures of violence within American society and impresses with two excellent leading actors. The focus is not on solving the crime, but on confronting a painfully explored process of alienation. "
“Based on the alleged murder of Kathie McCormack by her husband Robert Durst in 1982, Andrew Jarecki plunges into the depths of the human psyche in his feature film debut. Sometimes sober, sometimes melancholy, he depicts the decay of a love that overcomes boundaries, which turns from pathological compulsion to control into irrepressible hatred. With Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, Jarecki has two actors at his side who give their roles not only melancholy truthfulness, but also threatening depth that makes one shudder: When Ryan Gosling disguises himself as a woman while fleeing the police, you feel remembers Michael Caine's gruesome appearances in Brian De Palma's “Dressed to Kill”. Also causing goosebumps: the audio commentary with Andrew Jarecki and Robert Durst, which was held like an interview! "If something happens to me, it was Robert!" Based on Kathie's last words to her family and the statements of friends and acquaintances, Andrew Jarecki tells a love story that goes deep into substance, which turns into a tragic murder case in the second half of the film. "
publication
The film was initially released as video-on-demand in the United States . It started in a few American cinemas on December 3, 2010 and grossed around 0.6 million US dollars at the American box office. In Germany, the film was not shown in theaters, but was released on DVD in March 2012.
background
After seeing this film, Durst contacted Jarecki to be the first person to tell him his true story. The format originally planned as a documentary became - as Durst revealed one piquant detail after the other - a six-part television series with the title The Bad Luck: The Life and Death of Robert Durst (Original title: The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst ) , which was bought by US cable broadcaster HBO and aired in the spring of 2015.
In the series finale, Durst is confronted with a letter linking him to the murder of Susan Berman. He denies this and goes to the bathroom, where he talks to himself that has been recorded. This ends with the words: “ What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course. (What the hell did you do? Killed them all, of course.) "As a result, Durst was arrested for first-degree murder the day before the last episode was broadcast, March 14, 2015, as new findings gave rise to urgent suspicions .
Web links
- All Good Things in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- All Beauty Must Die in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for All Beauty Must Die . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 105 V).
- ↑ All Beauty Must Die. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Cinema : All Beauty Must Die
- ↑ grossing of All Good Things from Box Office Mojo
- ↑ Adam Arndt: Sky shows The Jinx - The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. In: Serienjunkies.de . March 18, 2015, accessed March 23, 2015 .
- ^ John Hendrickson: About That Robert Durst Quote at the End of The Jinx. In: Esquire . March 15, 2015, accessed March 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Marc Pitzke: Escape for decades: US millionaire Durst accused of murder. In: Spiegel Online . March 17, 2015, accessed March 23, 2015 .