Box of moonlight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Box of moonlight |
| Original title | Box of Moon Light |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom DiCillo |
| script | Tom DiCillo |
| production | Thomas A. Bliss , Marcus Viscidi |
| music | Jim Farmer |
| camera | Paul Ryan |
| cut | Camilla Toniolo |
| occupation | |
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Box of Moonlight (TV title: The moon in my hand ; Original title: Box of Moon Light ) is an American drama from 1996 . It was directed by Tom DiCillo , who also wrote the script.
action
The engineer Al Fountain is considered strict among his colleagues; it is referred to as a robot , among other things . He's frustrated. After a business trip, Fountain does not return directly to his family, but visits an area that he knows from his childhood. Fountain loses the keys to his rental car on the trip. It should take some time for the rental company to send you the replacement keys. During this time, Fountain befriends Buck, who lives in the village.
The men go hunting and discover an empty factory building. Buck shoots a window pane and Fountain reminds him that the pane is $ 800. With the words now it's 1,600 dollars , Buck shoots another disk. The men shoot some objects for fun.
Fountain and Buck get to know the sisters Floatie and Purlene Dupre, with whom they dance around the campfire. Each of the men spends the following night with one of the sisters. The replacement keys arrive the next day. The friends first say goodbye to the sisters, then Buck gives his friend a blue box as a goodbye.
Fountain returns home and hands the box to his wife. In it she finds a hiding place with the allegedly lost car keys.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the twists and turns of the story could not obscure the fact that the film was nothing more than a film about midlife crisis and friendship. There are some “enchanting” scenes, but they do not result in a “magical whole”. The main problem is that the direction does not have a clear direction. The characters of the sisters appearing in the last third are insufficiently developed. Berardinelli praised the "excellent" ("superb") rendering of John Turturro, which avoids the pitfalls of over-drawing. The game of Sam Rockwell is "solid", but without the "mastery" of his film partner.
Roger Ebert praised the portrayal of Turturro in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 8, 1997, who first played a sad figure and then a transformed human being. The plot is not particularly extensive.
Edward Guthmann wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of August 8, 1997 that the film was a "whimsical tale" ("whimsical fable"). At the beginning there is no clear key or direction ("with no apparent tone or direction"), later the advantages of the film become more obvious. Guthmann praised the depictions of Turturro and Rockwell. The scenes with Catherine Keener and Lisa Blount would seem improvised.
Awards
John Turturro was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 1998 .
backgrounds
The director originally planned to shoot this film before Living in Oblivion in 1995. Due to funding problems, he preferred the other film project.
The film was in New York and Knoxville ( Tennessee turned). It had its world premiere on August 29, 1996 at the Venice International Film Festival . On September 11, 1996, it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film grossed approximately 721,000 US dollars in cinemas in the United States . In France there were around 30.6 thousand moviegoers.
Web links
- Box of Moonlight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Box of Moonlight at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed September 2, 2007
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed on September 2, 2007
- ↑ a b Film review by Edward Guthmann, accessed on September 2, 2007 ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2005 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.
- ^ Filming locations for Box of Moon Light, accessed September 2, 2007
- ↑ Box of Moon Light release dates, accessed September 2, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for Box of Moon Light, accessed September 2, 2007
