Beloved Jane
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Beloved Jane |
| Original title | Becoming Jane |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julian Jarrold |
| script |
Kevin Hood Sarah Williams |
| production |
Robert Bernstein Graham Broadbent Douglas Rae |
| music | Adrian Johnston |
| camera | Eigil Bryld |
| cut | Emma E. Hickox |
| occupation | |
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Beloved Jane (Original title: Becoming Jane ) is a US-British biopic about Jane Austen by Julian Jarrold from 2007.
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Jane Austen grew up in the agricultural region of Hampshire at the end of the 18th century as a daughter of the Reverend Austen . She is full of energy, plays the piano and writes. Her family wants her to marry rich Mr. Wisley, but they resist. This outraged her mother, who married out of love and then had to live in modest circumstances.
Jane meets the Irish-born Tom Lefroy (Thomas Langlois Lefroy) who wants to become a lawyer. He criticizes her attempts at writing and gives her the novel 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling' by Henry Fielding to read. They both eventually fall in love. Lefroy introduces her to his wealthy uncle, who lives in London , and wants to ask him for a blessing on their marriage, but he discovers that someone has denounced Jane to his uncle as a dowry hunter . Since Tom is completely dependent on his uncle's money, he bows to his uncle's ban on marriage. After a short separation, the two decide to run away together. However, while a carriage breaks down on their way to Scotland, Jane finds out from a letter that she discovers in Tom's coat pocket that his family in Ireland is living in very poor conditions and is dependent on his financial support, which he regularly gives them. Finally, Jane explains to Tom that, considering the poverty of their two families, she has come to the conclusion that there is no livelihood to start a family with him. Tom tries in vain to dispel their doubts by pointing out their love for one another. Shortly thereafter, Jane boarded a carriage in the opposite direction back to her family.
Many years later the two meet again. Jane is now a successful and well-known writer and is still single. Tom Lefroy, who has since achieved fame and fortune as Lord Chief Justice in Ireland, is married and named his eldest daughter after Jane, who is a great admirer of the author. For her sake, Jane finally gives a reading for once in which she reads from her work " Pride and Prejudice ", for whose main characters, Miss Elizabeth and Mister Darcy - according to the interpretation of the film - she and Tom Lefroy are said to have acted as godparents.
Reviews
Derek Elley wrote in Variety magazine on March 8, 2007 that the film was similar to Pride and Prejudice in all aspects but the title . Anne Hathaway show her talent.
In the review written for the BBC on March 9, 2007, Stella Papamichael praised the charm of the leading actors. The film is first a social satire, then it becomes a melodrama. Anne Hathaway shows "delightful, dignified élan" .
The lexicon of international films says: “ Not a biography, but a purely fictional melodrama that transfers the literary structures of the Jane Austen novels to the protagonist Jane Austen. This results in both elegant cinema and a sensitive portrait of society, which, of course, does without the author's ironic, distant tone. "
Awards
The film won the Heartland Film Festival's Truly Moving Sound Award in 2007. In addition, even before its German theatrical release, the Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded it the title of Particularly Valuable .
background
The film was shot in Ireland . Its production costs were estimated at 12.5 million euros . The film had its world premiere on March 2, 2007 at the Wonthaggi International Film Festival ; it opened in UK theaters on March 9, 2007, and in US - on August 3, 2007 (selected theaters) and August 10, 2007 (broad release). The film grossed approximately £ 3 million in UK cinemas through April 1, 2007 . The German theatrical release was on October 3, 2007. In Germany, the film had 128,479 viewers.
Web links
- Becoming Jane in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Becoming Jane at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Becoming Jane at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Beloved Jane . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 454 K).
- ↑ Critique by Derek Elley, accessed on June 18, 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.bbc.co.uk, accessed June 18, 2007
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ movie-infos.net: Predicate: Particularly valuable , August 4, 2007
- ↑ Filming locations for Becoming Jane, accessed June 18, 2007
- ^ Box office / business for Becoming Jane, accessed June 18, 2007
- ^ Opening dates for Becoming Jane, accessed August 28, 2009
- ↑ Viewership of Anne Hathaway films
