Cassandra's dream
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cassandra's dream |
| Original title | Cassandra's Dream |
| Country of production | United States , United Kingdom , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Woody Allen |
| script | Woody Allen |
| production |
Letty Aronson , Stephen Tenenbaum , Gareth Wiley |
| music | Philip Glass |
| camera | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| cut | Alisa Lepselter |
| occupation | |
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Cassandra's Dream (original title: Cassandra's Dream ) is a film drama from the year 2007 by Woody Allen led, directed and wrote the screenplay.
action
The brothers Ian and Terry live in south London. They were raised by a weak-willed father who runs a restaurant with moderate success and a strong mother. The maternal uncle, Howard, is a successful, international businessman who always helps out poor relatives. Ian and Terry are struggling with financial problems and Terry tries his luck at the dog racing track and playing poker. Together they buy a sailboat, which Terry finances through a win on the dog track. They call the boat Cassandra's dream after the successful greyhound. Ian meets his dream woman: Angela, a beautiful actress who has high expectations of life. To impress her, Ian pretends to be a successful businessman. Terry loses sums of money playing poker and is in the chalk with criminal debt collectors. When they visit their wealthy Uncle Howard, they ask him for help, whereupon he hires them to remove Martin Burns, a business partner who wants to expose Uncle Howard's illegal business practices. The brothers are shocked at first, but soon consent, mainly through Ian's initiative, as they believe they have no other choice. Terry has to pay off his debts, while Ian needs start-up capital to start his own business and wants to impress his girlfriend. By chance they meet the future murder victim at a party, making it impossible for Terry to carry out the plan. However, he is harassed by Ian, who has no remorse, and they eventually kill Burns with self-made guns. These are then burned and there is no trace of the victim. Terry can't cope with the fact that he murdered someone. He is plagued by remorse, he drinks, is depressed and finally wants to face himself. He reveals this to his brother Ian, who then makes the decision with his uncle to kill Terry. He wants to carry out the murder of his brother under the pretext of wanting to go on a relaxing sailing trip with him. But then he has doubts the moment he fills a cocktail of tablets into a beer bottle, and he throws the bottle against the hatch, which then breaks. He pounces on Terry angrily. Terry pushes Ian unhappily and Ian falls backwards onto a table and breaks his neck. Terry then kills himself. This is not shown in the film. Rather, the police report that he drowned himself. Meanwhile, the two friends of the two brothers are shopping and are looking forward to seeing their partners again. Angela recently explained to Ian that she had turned down a weekend getaway with a rich man because she had realized that she really loved Ian. The last shot shows how the Cassandra's dream lies quietly and unscathed in the harbor.
Reviews
German-language reviews
“The optics (camera: Vilmos Zsigmond ) appear rather flat and Protestant, the images of the brothers often remain narrow, like the radius of their manic thoughts revolving around money and guilt. But it is precisely from these limitations that the film strikes its sparks: from the approaching walls, from rooms that are paced faster and faster and from the noticeably agonizing inner restlessness of two brothers who first chased the lack of money, then greed and then conscience. "
“The protagonist and later double murderer of Match Point reads Dostoyevsky's novel Schuld und Atonement (Prestuplenie i nakazanie, 1866) in an early scene - with an accompanying book so that he can be understood as an uneducated tennis teacher. Like its predecessor, Cassandra's dream poses as a variant of the Russian classic and rubs explanations and interpretations under the nose of the underrated viewer. If excessive dialogues or exaggerated facial contortions on the part of the actors do not ensure this, then an ominous thunderstorm or the intrusive music by Philip Glass sets in. Cassandra's dream could also be called “Match Point for Dummies”. And the moral of the story: Murder can cause guilty conscience and disturbed sleep. "
Rainer Gansera described the film in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 4, 2008 as a “study of human corruptibility”. It begins as a “pretty milieu study”, then it turns into “Hitchcock's grotesque” and ends as a tragedy. Woody Allen composes "the event willfully like a character test arrangement"; the “brilliant actors” would have enough leeway “to reveal the characters in all their confusion and nudity”.
Wolfgang Höbel wrote in the magazine Der Spiegel on September 4, 2007 that the film tells its story “straightforward, almost humorless, but with theatrical brilliance”. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor are "a great team". The viewer gets the feeling "that all these Dostoevsky-like guilt entanglements in ' Match Point ' and ' Crime and other trifles ' were served more quickly and more closely - even if not with such a gloomy outcome”.
Foreign language reviews
Manohla Dargis , chief film critic of the New York Times , particularly praised the performance of Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell.
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was a "lame psychological thriller" and a "wannabe film noir " with no atmosphere. He confirms that the time of the great films by Woody Allen is over ("we may finally be seeing confirmation of what many have suspected for years: that Woody Allen's period of greatness as a filmmaker is over"). Berardinelli praised the portrayal of Ewan McGregor and criticized that of Colin Farrell, who - cast against his type - irritates. Tom Wilkinson is "wonderful as always".
Claudia Morgoglione wrote in the newspaper La Repubblica on September 2, 2007 that the film shows the tragic aspects of life, quoting a statement from Woody Allen.
Richard Brody, film critic for the New Yorker , listed Cassandra's dream as one of the 26 best films of the decade he had seen in 2009 .
backgrounds
The film was shot in London and Brighton in July and August 2006. Its production amounted to an estimated 13 million pounds sterling . The film had its world premiere on June 18, 2007 in Avilés ( Spain ). It was screened out of competition at the 2007 Venice International Film Festival , which opened on August 29 . The widespread release began in Spain on October 26, 2007 and in France on October 31, 2007. The film opened in German cinemas on June 5, 2008, and it was released on DVD on December 4, 2008.
Web links
- Cassandra's Dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cassandra's Dream at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Cassandra's Dream at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Cassandra's Dream . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 891 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Cassandra's dream . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Film review by Rainer Gansera, accessed on June 4, 2008
- ^ Film review by Wolfgang Höbel, accessed on May 27, 2008
- ↑ Manohla Dargis : In Over Their Heads, With Destiny Looming , in: New York Times , January 18, 2008
- ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed January 28, 2008
- ↑ Review by Claudia Morgoglione, accessed on 4 September 2007
- ↑ Richard Brody: The Front Row: Best of the Decade , in: The New Yorker , November 30, 2009
- ^ Filming locations for Cassandra's Dream, accessed September 4, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for Cassandra's Dream, accessed September 4, 2007
- ↑ Cassandra's Dream premiere dates, accessed May 27, 2008