Another Me
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Another Me |
| Original title | Another Me |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Spain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Isabel Coixet |
| script | Isabel Coixet |
| production |
Mariela Besuievsky , Nicole Carmen-Davis , Rebekah Gilbertson |
| music | Michael Price |
| camera | Jean-Claude Larrieu |
| cut | Elena Ruiz |
| occupation | |
| |
Another Me (Original title: Another Me ) is a British - Spanish thriller by Isabel Coixet from 2013 . It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Catherine MacPhail . After its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival on November 15, 2013, it was shown in cinemas in Spain, the United States and Germany in the summer of 2014.
action
Since her father Don suffered from multiple sclerosis , the schoolgirl Fay has felt pursued by a doppelganger and has to watch how the previously perfect family life is falling apart more and more. The other girl appears to her in dreams, in photos and takes her place more and more often in everyday life without other people noticing. If she seems to be approaching Fay, the power supply to the lighting is disrupted or panes of glass crack. However, Fay does not get to see her likeness and is confused whether it is an imagination, stalking by an envious classmate or something third. When she confides in her mother Ann and later her father, she learns that she actually had an identical twin sister, Layla, who was killed during childbirth to save the lives of Fay and her mother. Meanwhile, Fay's mother has an affair with her teacher, John. Both meet in John's car in the evening, within sight of the house window, so that Fay notices. After Fay asks her mother about it, she ends the affair.
The decision when Fay was born had to be made by her father, who has been haunted by Layla's ghost ever since. It is this spirit that is now interfering in Fay's life. He wants to take over Fay's life and make Fay disappear because of the identical appearance without anyone noticing. The father urgently warns Fay not to look Layla's ghost in the eyes, as this would cause her to die and Layla to take her place. Fay, however, cannot curb her curiosity and finally wants to confront her persecutor. It provokes a meeting in which the predicted happens. While trying to keep Fay from making eye contact, the wheelchair-bound father dies from a fall. Layla takes Fay's place without anyone noticing it, and without anyone still alive to know about it.
background
The filming focused on locations in Wales and Spain .
reception
“The most recent film by the reliably interesting and versatile Spaniard Isabel Coixet ('Elegy or the art of loving') is, in the overall perception, above all a style exercise - a visual-acoustic approximation to motifs of the Japanese horror film, which largely dispenses with the shock elements and confusion of teenage years with a plot point that arouses curiosity. 'Another Me' can develop tension, but the dramaturgy has weaknesses and ultimately surprises the characters more than the audience. "
Web links
- Another Me - My alter ego in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Another Me - My alter ego atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Another Me . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 114 K).
- ↑ Patrick Frater: FilMart: Fox's 'Another Me' Lands At Fortissimo . In: Variety . March 14, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
- ↑ Another Me ( Memento from September 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive )