Bringing Out the Dead - Nights of Remembrance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bringing Out the Dead - Nights of Remembrance |
| Original title | Bringing Out the Dead |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | Paul Schrader |
| production |
Barbara De Fina , Scott Rudin |
| music | Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | Robert Richardson |
| cut | Thelma Schoonmaker |
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Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 drama film . The director Martin Scorsese worked on this film one more time after u. a. Taxi Driver and Wie ein Wilder Stier together with screenwriter Paul Schrader . The film is based on the novel of the same name by the author Joe Connelly .
action
Frank Pierce is a paramedic in New York City . There he comes into contact with death every day. Over time, Pierce begins to break from it. At the beginning of the film he meets Mary, the daughter of a coma patient he saved. They both fall in love, but Mary also struggles with her life. Shortly before Frank is finally about to collapse, he decides to end the life of Mary's father. Frank believes that the “ghosts” of the almost dead man don't want to go back into his body and that Mary's father doesn't want to be resuscitated either. During eye contact, he hears the father's voice in his head asking him to let him die. After Frank has switched off the devices, he drives to Mary and tells her about her father's death. A burden falls from Mary and Frank Pierce also feels relieved.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was not one of the best Martin Scorsese films. He praised the performance of Nicolas Cage, who, however, played better in Leaving Las Vegas .
"The script is oppressive (Paul Schrader), the camera work is atmospheric (Robert Richardson), Nicolas Cage's playing is brilliant and the staging is excellent."
“Martin Scorsese's unnerving portrait of Manhattan's 'Hells Kitchen' takes up the theme of his almost 25-year-old film 'Taxi Driver'. The film, marked by bitterness, caustic irony and despair, is difficult to bear, although the prospect of catharsis depends on each individual viewer. "
Awards
Ving Rhames won a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor . Robert Richardson received a Florida Film Critics Circle Award for his cinematography .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Trivia
The monotony of the ambulance trips by the resigned paramedics is accentuated by repeated recording of the song T. B. Sheets by Van Morrison in the soundtrack . The almost ten-minute song, in keeping with the film, is about the impotence of a hospital visitor in the face of a terminally ill girl; Above all, the smell in the hospital room is lamented ("Open up the window and let me breathe [...] I can almost smell your TB sheets" - "Open the window and let me breathe [...] I almost smell your tuberculosis sheets" ).
Web links
- Bringing Out the Dead - Nights of Remembrance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bringing Out the Dead - Nights of Remembrance at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ Bringing Out the Dead - Nights of Remembrance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 29, 2016 .