Boxing Helena
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Boxing Helena |
| Original title | Boxing Helena |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jennifer Chambers Lynch |
| script | Jennifer Chambers Lynch |
| production |
James R. Schaeffer , Larry Sugar |
| music | Graeme Revell |
| camera | Frank Byers |
| cut | David Finfer |
| occupation | |
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Boxing Helena is a 1993 American film directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch .
action
The surgeon Nick Cavanaugh moved to the death of his mother earlier attractive in their country house. At the same time he meets the attractive Helena again, with whom he once spent a night and took years to forget. When he looks through the window of her apartment at night and watches her having sex with her boyfriend, he is desperate and interrupts the sex with a phone call. Nick gives a housewarming party for his property, to which he also invites Helena. When she appears, he serves her submissively and never takes his eyes off her. Nick's friend, the doctor Anne, shows jealousy. A younger hospital colleague is fascinated by Helena, and she finally leaves the party with him. But she forgot her handbag, so she calls Nick and asks him to bring it to the airport before her plane takes off in the morning. Nick does so, but he has taken out Helena's address book, so she is forced to accompany Nick to his house to look for the book. When Helena recognizes his ruse there and leaves the house angrily, she is run over by a car.
Helena wakes up with amputated legs in Nick's house, who looks after her devotedly. Nick no longer goes about his work, isolates himself and tries to attract Helena's affection in a childlike way. Despite her disability, Helena dominates the relationship, more and more parallels to the relationship between Nick and his Helena-like mother, who caught little Nick cocking up several times . Helena watches him having sex with Anne, who pounces on him during an investigative visit, but Nick does not cut a good figure. To wipe out this notch and convince Helena of his qualities as a lover, he lets her watch sex with a young nurse.
Again and again you can see Nick admiring the replicas of ancient women standing on pillars torsi . When Helena's friend finally turns up in the country house looking for her, her arms are also amputated. The boyfriend hits Nick badly, despite Helena's requests not to do so. A statue falls on Nick, who is lying on the ground, who awakens from his dream and finds himself in the hospital, where he took Helena after her accident. He's allowed into her room; you can see that she still has both legs.
particularities
The film caused a scandal even before shooting . Actress Kim Basinger had verbally agreed to play the female lead, but later refused to play the role. Due to the short-term exit of Kim Basinger, the start of shooting had to be postponed. The actress was therefore sued for damages and sentenced to pay nearly nine million dollars; however, this decision was reversed on appeal.
Director Jennifer Chambers Lynch is the daughter of cult director David Lynch .
Awards
The director received the Golden Raspberry in 1994 in the worst director category .
criticism
The lexicon of international film judged that the film production was a "chamber play-like, reasonably exciting, deliberately erotic phantasmagoria" . The plot is filled with "psychological platitudes" .
Pop Culture
Woman in Chains by Tears for Fears featuring Oleta Adams is part of the soundtrack for the film. Reference was made to the film in the TV series Gilmore Girls in the episode Dance Marathon (3rd season, episode 7). The film is also considered the inspiration for the song Helena by the band The Misfits from their album Famous Monsters .
Individual evidence
- ^ Boxing Helena. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 27, 2013 .
Web links
- Boxing Helena in the Internet Movie Database (English)