Blackthorn (film)

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Movie
German title Blackthorn
Original title Blackthorn
Country of production Spain ,
France ,
Bolivia ,
United Kingdom
original language English ,
Spanish
Publishing year 2011
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mateo Gil
script Miguel Barros
production Ibón Cormenzana
Andrés Santana
music Lucio Godoy
camera Juan Ruiz Anchía
cut David Gallart
occupation

Blackthorn is a Spanish western about the legendary character of Butch Cassidy , played by Sam Shepard . Mateo Gil directed most of the film in 2010 on locations in Bolivia .

action

The film is set in 1927. James Blackthorn, an old gringo , lives peacefully on his run-down farm in the valleys of Bolivia. He breeds horses and has an affair with a local. Obviously aged, he wants to go back to the United States. His real name is Butch Cassidy; the people who even remember this legendary outlaw think him dead. In a letter to the son of his now deceased companion Etta Place, he announces his return, which no one is allowed to know about.

As he crossed the high plateau on his way to his old home, the Spanish mine engineer Eduardo, much younger than him, who was on the run after a mine robbery and believed he was a pursuer, shot at him. Blackthorn's horse runs away with his savings. Blackthorn hesitantly accompanies Eduardo to get new money - part of the booty from the mine robbery. In the harshness and solitude of the desert men become friends.

Flashbacks - Blackthorn's memories - gradually sketch the previous love triangle between Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Etta Place, whose son is possibly Butch's son.

In order to escape Eduardo's pursuers, they must eventually separate. Blackthorn falls into the hands of his old adversary Mackinley again, as it did more than three decades ago, who surprisingly helps him to escape, but also informs him about Eduardo. He did not steal from an unscrupulous mine owner, but from the workers.

Blackthorn, the pursuers behind the neck, confronts Eduardo in the no man's land of the border and makes him unable to move with a shot in the knee. He chases his horse away to prevent him from escaping, throws the stolen money at his feet and leaves him to the pursuers, who find him a little later and judge Eduardo on the spot. At the same time, Blackthorn continues his flight through the Andes . The Bolivian army and the vengeful miners also resume the pursuit, which they finally give up on a snow-covered height. They take the horse from Mackinley, whom they believe to be a traitor, and leave him, like Blackthorn, to an uncertain fate.

Reviews

"The film is less interested in the narrative or even in action than in showing the wonderful Bolivian expanse and the presentation of Sam Shepard's gray, laconic present," writes the Hollywood Reporter. Even Variety found for the "classic minimalist Western" words of praise. The lexicon of international films sees Blackthorn as a " melancholy declaration of love for the westerns, which further spins the myth of the genre with grandiose landscapes and a laconic staging, and at the same time seriously and credibly ponders aging."

Remarks

The film premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival . In Germany it was released on April 4, 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray.

Awards

In 2012, Blackthorn received eleven nominations for the Goya Spanish Film Award. The film won awards for cinematography, production design ( Juan Pedro de Gaspar ), costumes ( Clara Bilbao ) and film producer.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Blackthorn . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 927 V).
  2. ↑ The Hollywood Reporter on the movie
  3. ↑ Review of the Variety
  4. ↑ a b Blackthorn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 18, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ http://www.indiewire.com/article/meet_the_2011_tribeca_filmmakers_blackthorn_director_mateo_gil/#