Bird (film)

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Movie
German title Bird
Original title Bird
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 161 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Clint Eastwood
script Joel Oliansky
production Clint Eastwood
music Lennie Niehaus ,
Walter Davis Jr.
camera Jack N. Green
cut Joel Cox
occupation

Bird is an American film about jazz musician Charlie Parker from 1988.

action

The film tells the life story of the legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker , nicknamed "Bird". Parker's artistic career has been influenced by drug use, which eventually led to his early death. Jazz aficionado Clint Eastwood and his screenwriter Oliansky find images that give shape to the wild lifestyle of a brilliant artist in a film. The very first scenes introduce the audience to a Charlie Parker who is on the verge of human ruin. Parker comes home drunk, starts an argument with his wife Chan and tries to commit suicide so that he has to be taken to a mental hospital. There they would like to treat him with electroshock therapy. His wife doesn't agree. After all, it is not just any human being, but a sensitive artist. The story of Parker's life will now be told in memories of the beginnings. Chan's memories alternate with Charlie's as she tries to get her husband off the drugs at home.

Reviews

“Despite all the precisely researched facts, not a pure artist biography, but an associative approach to Parker's life and myth created with consistent stylistic devices; characterized by respect and affection for people and their music, which is offered in brilliant sound quality as the key to understanding. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Charlie Parker and Red Rodney, who plays a key role in Eastwood's film.
Photography by William P. Gottlieb

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bird. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 29, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used