All is lost
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | All is lost |
| Original title | All is lost |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | JC Chandor |
| script | JC Chandor |
| production |
Neal Dodson Anna Gerb Justin Nappi Teddy Schwarzman |
| music | Alex Ebert |
| camera |
Frank G. DeMarco Peter Zuccarini |
| cut | Pete Beaudreau |
| occupation | |
All Is Lost is an American film drama by JC Chandor from the year 2013 with Robert Redford as the only performer. The film was released in German cinemas on January 9, 2014.
action
At the beginning of the film, a half-sunken ISO container slowly drifts through the picture in the sea. In addition, a voice from the off reads a farewell letter. A flashback of eight days describes how this came about. The unnamed solo sailors (played by Robert Redford) is on his 39- foot - sailboat Virginia Jean away by a sudden run-in water from sleep. His sailing boat rammed a container floating in the sea, which is still in the hull, and so the sailor is in distress . He stabilizes the container with a sea anchor and sails the boat to the side so that repairs can be carried out. First he can mend the hole in the plastic hull with resin and fabric and pump out the water with a hand bilge pump. However, due to the ingress of water, the boat's electrical system failed. His laptop is soaked and the radios are defective. Once he still hears radio calls, but cannot make an emergency call. When he tried to repair the radio antenna on the masthead , he noticed an approaching storm on the second day. He hastily prepares the boat for the storm, pumps drinking water into a reserve canister and shaves one last time.
The long, heavy storm hits boat and sailors hard. Even when trying to set a storm jib , the man almost drowns and can only save himself thanks to his safety line on board. As a result, the boat capsizes and is seriously damaged. The mast breaks, water penetrates. If he capsizes again, the sailor almost drowns again. After all, he can rudimentarily stabilize the badly damaged boat with his sea anchor. The storm continues to rage with great force, which is why he bumps his head so hard in the cabin that he passes out.
When he comes to, he is lying on the cabin bench and mostly in the water. He realizes that he cannot save the boat. So he inflates his life raft and takes the fresh water canister and a box with a sextant off board. Although initially frightened by the danger on the sinking boat, he returns several times to the largely flooded cabin to save equipment and supplies on the raft. Finally, standing up to his neck in the water, he tends to the wound on his forehead with the aid of the on-board pharmacy and only then climbs onto the life raft. Shortly afterwards, the boat finally sinks in the Indian Ocean .
On the raft he has to reorganize himself, ration his food and try to determine his position with the sextant. Another storm hits the raft, so that it capsizes too. From below the raft, the sailor tries to straighten the raft. To do this, he has to emerge and use an emergency line to straighten up from the side of the raft. The structure of the raft with the tent that protects against the sun is destroyed by the storm.
His situation came to a head when he discovered that his scarce drinking water supply was contaminated with salt water . However, he can build a device with which he collects condensing water. On the nautical chart he can see how he is slowly drifting with the current towards a shipping route. In fact, he sighted a container freighter (in the film this is the Marit Mærsk ), but can not make himself noticeable by means of a hand torch . When he caught a fish with the emergency fishing rod during the day and wanted to pull it to him, a shark grabbed the prey. He wakes up at night when a second ship almost runs over him; again, despite the launch of several signal rockets, he is not seen. The sun's rays give him trouble, he lies apathetically in the life raft during the day.
On the eighth day he writes a farewell letter (which was read at the beginning of the film) and throws it into the water as a message in a bottle . In the night he sees a light again. He tears up the sailor's manual and sets it on fire in a canister. Soon the fire spreads to the entire raft and the sailor has to jump into the water. He swims a few strokes in the water and then slowly sinks into the ocean - perhaps on purpose.
From below in the water, the camera shows the fire ring of the burning liferaft. The hull of a boat slides into the picture from the left. A strong light searches the surface of the water. The sailor comes to and swims back to the surface with strong strokes. He takes a hand that extends to help him. At the end of the film, the picture shines brightly.
background
The film production companies Before The Door Pictures, Washington Square Films, Black Bear Pictures, Treehouse Pictures and Sudden Storm Productions ( Canada ) were involved in the realization of the film .
All Is Lost was filmed in the Bahamas , California and Mexico . The filming began in mid-2012 at Baja Studios in Rosarito , Mexico. Many scenes for the film Titanic were also shot here. The film budget was estimated at 9 million dollars .
The screenplay of the survival chamber play was only 30 pages and a minimum of spoken text.
The film was first presented to the public at several film festivals in 2013 , including the Cannes International Film Festival on May 22, 2013 , the New York Film Festival on October 8, 2013 and the London Film Festival on October 12, 2013 . The launch in selected cinemas in the USA was on October 25, 2013. In Germany , the film was released on January 9, 2014.
reception
The film received mostly positive ratings in film reviews. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , 94 percent of the reviewers gave the film a positive rating. Die Zeit saw 77-year-old Robert Redford "in his greatest role in decades".
"In his reduced-realistic sailing drama All Is Lost , director JC Chandor largely dispenses with sleek sleight of hand and instead simply shows a famous Robert Redford in a lonely struggle against murderous nature - an unspectacular but haunting cinema experience."
“JC Chandor carries out his puritanical and now and then monotonous undertaking according to plan and possibly accepting criticism. In these 106 minutes there is no plausible, figurative meaning or a pre-formed, punched-out parable on life. Only the voiceover is poetic and philosophical and the VANS shoes floating out of the container over the open sea can be observed surreally. "
" All Is Lost by JC Chandor with a great Robert Redford - a masterpiece."
"The tireless fight against wind, weather and water, against all kinds of setbacks and obstacles, tells primarily of the pure human will to live and survive."
The numerous inconsistencies in content were criticized among sailors, some of which led to logical errors, but above all made the main character of the film seem implausible, which according to the dramaturgy repeatedly makes extremely questionable decisions or (e.g. in the case of sea rescue equipment) Seems to have hit the start of the film plot and therefore doesn't seem very competent. This led one reviewer to question whether the main character was complacently and deliberately taking the resulting risks, or possibly latently suicidal.
A rare exception to this assessment provides the English Yacht magazine Yachting Monthly , for Dick Durham in his blog benevolently recognized that the film is "authentic and gripping realistic" and only that is his one decision of the sailor ( drogue not catch up in the shipping routes to not to drive out of them anytime soon) ascribes to the poor mental state of the shipwrecked man. Director C. Chandor himself, who says he used to sail independently with his parents and as an adult, said in an interview with Segeln magazine : “Everything that happens to Robert in the film can happen in reality . ”He only expressed concerns about the likelihood of sailing alone through the Indian Ocean and not avoiding the storm using modern technology and the necessary caution.
Awards
- Nomination for Best Actor - Drama for Robert Redford
- Award in the category Best Film Music for Alex Ebert (Amen)
Academy Awards 2014 (Academy Awards)
- Nomination for Best Sound Editing for Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
literature
- Hanns-Georg Rodek and Martin Scholz : I felt lost . Interview with Robert Redford. In: Welt am Sonntag . January 5, 2014, p. 18 ( welt.de [accessed on March 28, 2020]).
Web links
- Website on universumfilm.de
- All Is Lost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- All Is Lost in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for All Is Lost . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 492 K).
- ↑ Age rating for All Is Lost . Youth Media Commission .
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↑ Jacob Wendt Jensen: Kun de største har råd til proper product placement . On October 17, 2013 at b.dk , accessed on February 26, 2018;
Volker Schönenberger: All Is Lost - The old man and the sea . On January 7, 2014 from dienachtderlebendentexte.wordpress.com, accessed on February 26, 2018 - ^ IMDb Company Credits All Is Lost. Retrieved December 22, 2013 .
- ^ IMDb Filming Locations All Is Lost. Retrieved December 22, 2013 .
- ^ IMDb Box office / business for All Is Lost. Retrieved December 22, 2013 .
- ^ IMDb Release Info All Is Lost. Retrieved December 22, 2013 .
- ↑ All Is Lost at Rotten Tomatoes (English), accessed on February 26, 2018
- ↑ Oliver Kaever: The old man and the fight . On December 30, 2013 from zeit.de, accessed on February 26, 2018
- ^ Carsten Baumgardt: All Is Lost - Critique of the FILMSTARTS editorial team. filmstarts.de, accessed on January 5, 2014 .
- ^ Lars Bieker: All Is Lost (2013). filmfutter.com, December 19, 2013, accessed January 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Hartwig Tegeler: Old Masters alone and in pairs. deutschlandfunk.de, January 8, 2014, accessed January 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Frank Schnelle: Review of "All is Lost". epd-film.de, December 27, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014 .
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↑ Uwe Janßen: "All is lost" - this is how the YACHT sees it. In: Yachtrevue 2/2014. yacht.de , January 10, 2014, accessed on February 26, 2018 : “There are many small errors in detail throughout the film and the sailor is happy when the mast finally breaks after 40 minutes in a storm. [...] The question of how to behave when your own sailing yacht sinks is one that you ask yourself again and again. But one thing is certain: not like that. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the seaman ness, and also the reality in a Hollywood film, as expected, is neglected, the logic is partly completely missing. " ;
Judith Duller-Mayrhofer: The sailor's curse. In: Yachtrevue 2/2014. yachtrevue.at, accessed on February 26, 2018 : “The worst thing is the expert sailing habitus in the cinema. [...] Pirates of the Caribbean, The Storm, Master and Commander, All is Lost - the list of relevant films on my index is long. " - ↑ Tom Lochhaas: Sailor's Review of Movie All Is Lost - Fatal Flaws. (No longer available online.) Sailing.about.com, archived from the original on July 12, 2014 ; accessed on February 26, 2018 .
- ^ Dick Durham: Redford acts out our worst nightmare. yachtingmonthly.com , December 20, 2013, accessed on February 26, 2018 : “Certainly the film is authentic and grippingly realistic. [...] Had I been in Mr Redford's liferaft, I would have pulled in my drogue once I entered the shipping lanes and not allowed it to drag me clear, but then eight days in a liferaft with little food and less fresh water can do funny things to your mind. "
- ^ Kai Köckeritz: Robert Redford on "All is Lost" (Interview: Markus Tschiedert). On November 29, 2017 from segeln-magazin.de , accessed on February 26, 2018