Angels' Share - A drink for the angels

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Movie
German title Angels' Share - A drink for the angels
Original title The Angels' Share
Country of production Great Britain , France , Belgium , Italy
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ken Loach
script Paul Laverty
production Rebecca O'Brien
music George Fenton
camera Robbie Ryan
cut Jonathan Morris
occupation

Angels' Share is a feature film by British director Ken Loach from 2012. It is based on a screenplay by Paul Laverty and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012 .

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The young Robbie didn't have it easy in life and often got by with brutal violence. After beating up another man, he faces a long prison sentence. But the judge lets mercy go ahead when he learns that Robbie's friend Leonie is pregnant. All Robbie has to do is do community service. The supervisor of the working group is the good-natured Harry, who then also helps Robbie when he is beaten up by his girlfriend's relatives.

Harry is also the group on a trip to Whiskey - Distillery invites. Robbie and his companions get an insight into the world of Scottish single malt whiskeys . At a whiskey tasting in Edinburgh, Robbie demonstrates astonishing skills in tasting the fine drink. He also attracted the attention of the whiskey collector Thaddeus, who also took part in the event. Robbie and his friends also learn that a short time later a barrel containing one of the most expensive whiskeys in the world is being auctioned at a distillery in the Highlands . As a result, Robbie developed the plan to divest some of the expensive whiskey in order to enable a carefree future.

Balblair whiskey distillery

Robbie and three of his friends then hitchhike to the north of Scotland to the Balblair distillery , where the barrel is stored and where the auction is to take place. Once there, they introduce themselves as an association of whiskey friends from Robbie's homeland, the Glasgow district of Carntyre, and are therefore allowed to take part in the two-day event. On the first day, Robbie lets himself be locked in the warehouse while the barrel is being presented. At night he branches off four bottles from the precious barrel and replaces the amount with cheaper whiskey from another barrel.

Also present at the auction is Thaddeus, who is supposed to buy the barrel on behalf of a Russian collector, but is outbid. Robbie then offers him three of the branched bottles for sale. They agree to hand over the bottles in Glasgow. On the way there, two bottles are broken due to a shudder. However, one bottle still yields half of the originally agreed price. The four divide the proceeds among themselves. Robbie gives Harry the fourth bottle.

Robbie had stipulated that Thaddeus would get him a real job. The film ends with Robbie leaving Glasgow with his small family for Stirling to begin an apprenticeship in a whiskey distillery. When saying goodbye, he asks his three friends to do something decent with the money and not to sink it into slot machines.

background

Glengoyne Distillery

Three different whiskey distilleries were used for the shooting. The outdoor facilities on the first tour show Glengoyne , the tour itself was filmed at Deanston . The scenes involving the expensive whiskey barrel and its auction were created in the area and on the grounds of the Balblair Distillery in Edderton . The filmmakers had explicitly looked for a distillery that visually gave the impression of being so isolated that only one road would lead back to the south. Other locations were Glasgow , Edinburgh , Loch Lomond , Ardgartan and the Rest and Be Thankful pass .

The enormous price of the barrel was attributed in the film to the fact that it came from a distillery called Malt Mill, which has long since been closed. A distillery of the same name actually existed on the grounds of the Lagavulin distillery until mid-1960 .

The original title The Angels' Share is an expression for that part of a long stored drink that is lost over time through evaporation. The bottle of Malt Mill that Robbie gives Harry at the end of the film is labeled "Angels' Share".

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes the film as "a refreshingly hands-on comedy which, in terms of the dramaturgical breakdown into several parts, strikes such an earthy song of praise for solidarity and humanity that one cannot escape the blissful catharsis of late justice".

On critic.de, Michael Kienzl said that Loach, together with his regular author Paul Laverty, was telling a story “that seems strangely inconsistent”. After the film was initially pure social realism, over time “the carefully introduced conflicts and characters are left behind, the realism is exaggerated and the film becomes a proletarian version of a heist movie”.

Film-rezensions.de also complained that the “individual components do not really fit together”, but praised the “likeable characters and their warm-hearted staging”.

Awards

At the Cannes International Film Festival in 2012 , the film received the Jury Prize ; he also took part in the competition for the Golden Palm . Loach's film was awarded the Audience Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián . The film also won two BAFTA Scotland Awards in the categories of Best Actor (Paul Brannigan) and Best Screenplay. In the Best Film category, however, it was defeated by the competition. Paul Brannigan also received a British Independent Film Award nomination in the Most Promising Young Talent category. George Fenton was nominated for the European Film Award in the Best Film Music category.

In 2013, Angels' Share - A Sip for the Angels was nominated for Best Foreign Film for the César . There were also nominations for the Evening Standard British Film Award in the categories of Best Screenplay and Most Promising Newcomer (Paul Brannigan).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Angels' Share - A Sip for the Angels . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 549 K).
  2. ↑ The Angel's Share, on a website about filming locations in Scotland, accessed June 13, 2015
  3. ↑ Angels' Share - A drink for the angels. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Michael Kienzl: Angels' Share - A sip for the angels on critic.de, May 22, 2012, accessed on January 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Oliver Armknecht: Angels' Share - A sip for the angels on film-rezensions.de