Asphalt flowers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Asphalt flowers |
| Original title | Scarecrow |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerry Schatzberg |
| script | Garry Michael White |
| production | Robert M. Sherman |
| music | Fred Myrow |
| camera | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| cut | Evan A. Lottman |
| occupation | |
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Asphalt Blossoms (Original title: Scarecrow ) is an American drama from 1973 . Directed by Jerry Schatzberg , the screenplay was written by Garry Michael White .
action
Max Millan is released from prison and dreams of opening his own business. Francis Lionel Delbuchi is looking for a woman with whom he had a relationship years ago and whom he left pregnant. Both men wander through the United States and get to know each other in California . Millan and Delbuchi become friends, although Max is more of a violent soloist and Francis is a sociable joker. Millan is involved in a few brawls along the way. They both go to jail. Eventually they go to Detroit , where Francis wants to see his child.
He gets jitters and calls his former girlfriend beforehand. She is now married and you can see her son playing in the room. On the phone, however, she tells Francis that her son died before giving birth. Francis feels guilty and torments him, but he doesn't tell Max. Corroded inside, he finally suffers a kind of nervous breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric institution.
background
The film was shot in Cañon City ( Colorado ), Reno ( Nevada ), Detroit and Hamtramck ( Michigan ) , among others . It was shown after its world premiere on April 11, 1973 in New York City in May 1973 at the Cannes International Film Festival.
The main committee of the FSK approved the film despite some sex and violence scenes from the age of 16 and was full of confidence in the ability of this age group to understand the film and to be able to deal with the irritations that occurred.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of April 12, 1973 that the film offers good moments thanks to the talented Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. However, it reveals a philosophy for which the film characters only play a subordinate role ("The moment we hear the philosophy behind the scarecrow [...] we begin to suspect these characters are too conscious of their symbolic roles, and we're right") . The film concentrates too much on its visual side, which has to do with the camera work by Vilmos Zsigmond.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film shows "in a visually effective and atmospherically dense frame" the "story of a partnership in which two dissimilar men discover that they have something to give each other". He is "powerfully charged in the plot and in the characterization of the people", but the film proves to be "sensitive and moving".
Awards
Jerry Schatzberg won the Grand Prix and the OCIC Award at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1973 . In 1974 he received the Danish Bodil Prize and the Japanese Kinema Junpo Award .
Web links
- Asphalt flowers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Asphalt flowers at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations of Asphalt Blossoms on imdb.com, accessed on July 21, 2008.
- ↑ Start dates for Asphalt-Blossoms on imdb.com, accessed on July 21, 2008.
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 267
- ↑ Roger Ebert's film review on rogerebert.suntimes.com, accessed on July 21, 2008.
- ^ Asphalt Blossoms in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on July 21, 2008.