Bye Bye Blackbird (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Goodbye, beautiful black bird |
| Original title | Bye bye Blackbird |
| Country of production | Luxembourg , Great Britain , Germany , Austria |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robinson Savary |
| script | Robinson Savary, Patrick Faure , Arif Ali Shah |
| production | Jani Thiltges |
| music | Mercury Rev |
| camera | Christophe Beaucarne |
| cut | Claire Ferguson |
| occupation | |
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Bye Bye Blackbird (German title: Adieu, Schöne, Schwarze Vogel ) is a Luxembourg film from 2005 . After three short films, this is the first feature film by the French portrait photographer Robinson Savary , the son of Jérôme Savary .
action
The young Josef, played by the trapeze artist and actor James Thiérrée , a grandson of Charlie Chaplin , works as a steel frame builder on the construction of the Eiffel Tower . He enjoys working in the air. When a work colleague crashes and shortly afterwards he sees a poster of the trapeze artist Alice (played by the former ballet dancer Izabella Miko , who practiced trapeze art for several months for the film), he decides to go to the circus. There, at Dempsey's Circus, he does various auxiliary jobs, but secretly practices on the trapeze in order to get close to Alice and make his dream come true of being able to work as a trapeze artist under the big top.
Josef can convince the circus owner Lord Dempsey, played by Derek Jacobi , to perform as a trapeze artist together with his daughter Alice. A dream comes true for him. During a sensational joint performance in Paris , Alice crashes. Joseph imagines he is responsible for it and withdraws into himself. Alice's adopted sister, Nina, played by Jodhi May , relieves Josef from his torments by shooting him after the circus has degenerated into a cabinet of curiosities.
Production and premieres
The film was produced by Samsa Film (Luxembourg). Dor Film was the producer in Austria, Ipso Facto Films in Great Britain and the Reverse Angle Factory in Germany , which works closely with Wim Wenders .
It was filmed in Dudelange , Luxembourg and in Mirker Bahnhof in Wuppertal .
Already shot in 2003, the film had its first performance at the International Film Festival in Cannes on May 15, 2005 shown in Germany for the first time was Bye Bye Blackbird when on 17 November 2005 International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg , cinema premiere in Germany was 30 November 2006.
Reviews
Leni Höllerer criticizes the neglect of the emotional drawing of the characters in the Berliner Zeitung . Felicitas Kleiner criticized the lack of vitality in Robinson Savary's circus world in the 24/2006 issue of the film magazine film-dienst . In addition to some negative reviews, there are also words of praise for the artistic expression and implementation of the film:
“Although there is at least one good reason to see Bye Bye Blackbird and that is its leading actor James Thiérrée (Vatel) - grandson of Charlie Chaplin - who performed in his parents' traveling circus at the age of four and the vibrant dynamism of a dancer owns. Connected with a charisma that is closed and melancholy, vulnerable and always a bit tense at the same time, you take Josef's emotional tightrope act, which is increasingly tipping into madness, from him every second "
“The artistic claim of the work is particularly evident in the breathtakingly staged trapeze choreographies, for which James Thiérrée himself was responsible. In these sequences - the most impressive by far is found almost exactly in the middle of the film - Bye Bye Blackbird playfully succeeds in transcending his own subject. "
On Rotten Tomatoes , the film achieved a rating of 36 percent based on 232 reviews with an average rating of 3.2 out of 5.
Awards
- 2005 - FIPRESCI Prize for Robinson Savary at the Taormina Film Festival
- 2005 - Nomination for Robinson Savary for the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival
Web links
- Bye Bye Blackbird in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bye Bye Blackbird at Filmportal.de
- Press kit of the film ( PDF ; 125 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Bye Bye Blackbird . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 804 K).
- ↑ cf. http://www.moviemaze.de/filme/1635/bye-bye-blackbird.html
- ↑ cf. http://www.critic.de/film/bye-bye-blackbird-690/
- ↑ Bye Bye Blackbird at Rotten Tomatoes (English)