Away We Go - To Somewhere

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Movie
German title Away We Go - To Somewhere
Original title Away We Go
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Sam Mendes
script Dave Eggers ,
Vendela Vida
production Edward Saxon ,
Marc Turtletaub ,
Peter Saraf
music Alexi Murdoch
camera Ellen Kuras
cut Sarah Flack
occupation

Away We Go - Off to Somewhere is an American comedy film of Sam Mendes from 2009 . The cinema release in Germany was on October 15, 2009.

A young couple is looking for the right home for themselves and their future child. They travel across the country, visit friends, but no family seems to be a suitable role model for them.

action

Three months before their first child is born, the couple Burt and Verona, both in their early 30s, are looking for a role model and a place to raise their child. The trigger is the surprising move of Burt's parents to Europe. With the ability to work from home and live wherever they want, Burt and Verona travel across North America to visit friends and relatives who could serve as counselors. In doing so, they encounter a wide variety of ideas about family relationships.

The first travel destination is Arizona, where the parents-to-be meet with Verona's former boss Lily. She lives with her husband Lowell and their two children in Phoenix and Burt. She doesn't like the disrespectful interaction between Lily and Lowell, which is also carried over to her children. That's not how they want to raise their child.

Next, Burt and Verona visit Verona's sister Grace, who also lives in Arizona. At Verona's request, Burt tries to convince Grace to stay with her (boring) boyfriend. When Burt reveals his typical humor on a suitable occasion, Grace is a little jealous of Verona and explains to her that she is very lucky to have such a man. Her next trip is to see Burt's childhood friend in Madison, Wisconsin. "LN" (pronounced "ellen") is a university professor at the University of Wisconsin who has very radical views on parenting. Although LN is quite wealthy due to an inheritance, she brings up her son very spartan and strict. Burt and Verona get into an argument with her about this, so they quickly move on.

In Montreal, Burt and Verona visit old college friends: Tom Garnett and his wife, Munch. You have a very diverse family of adopted children. Verona and Burt are happy to have found such a loving family and also such a nice city, so they decide to move to Montreal. However, the family idyll is deceptive, because Munch would also like to have a child of her own, which she has been denied until now and she recently suffered her fifth miscarriage. The next morning, Burt receives an 911 call from his Miami brother Courtney, whose wife has just left him. Burt and Verona immediately fly to him to distract him and his little daughter a little. While Burt tries to comfort Courtney, Verona spends time with his daughter so she doesn't miss her mother so much. In the face of this family catastrophe, Burt and Verona promise to stay together forever to give their daughter a happy home.

The next day, Verona tells Burt the story of her childhood home and her parents, who both died in a car accident at the age of 22. Moved by these memories, they decide to settle in Verona's old family home in the Florida Panhandle and find that this is exactly the right place for them and their child. They sit happily together and look out over the water.

production

Away We Go was given an R ( Restricted ) rating by the Motion Picture Association of America , so that in the United States, young people under the age of 17 are only allowed to watch the film when accompanied by an adult. Language and sexual content are given as the reason for this classification.

Reviews

Kinozeit wrote: Away We Go is “in a certain way a cheerful sequel or variation of the gloomy marriage drama 'Times of Turmoil' [...]. Even the wonderfully weird sex scene at the beginning of the film, in which Burt realizes that something cannot be right with Verona because it tastes different, determines the direction of the story: Weird humor, stylistically very American-style, sometimes a bit thick and exaggerated, but told with a lot of charm, speed and wit. "

Blickpunkt Film finds “Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo” “visually more insignificant than earlier Mendes films”, but recommends it as a “quietly funny, charming and touching commentary on family, happiness and the intrusion of responsibility into carelessness”.

The lexicon of international films describes the film as "a comedy that is convincing due to its humor and polished dialogues, but which robs the gap between the positively characterized protagonists and the caricaturally exaggerated secondary characters much of their credibility."

In the United States, the film received positive reviews from several major American film critics, including Roger Ebert , David Denby ( The New Yorker ), Claudia Puig ( USA Today ), Christy Limire ( AP ), Owen Gleiberman ( Entertainment Weekly ) and Stephen Whitty ( Newark Star Ledger ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 741 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Film review at kino-zeit.de, accessed on March 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Focus: Film Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo retrieved from mediabiz.de
  5. ↑ Away We Go - On to Somewhere. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 23, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used