Charlie's World - Really nothing is real

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Movie
German title Charlie's World - Really nothing is real
Original title A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Roman Coppola
script Roman Coppola
production Roman Coppola,
Youree Henley
music Liam Hayes ,
Roger Neill
camera Nick Beal
cut Robert Schafer
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Charlie's World - Really Nothing Is Real (Original title: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III ) is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Roman Coppolas , who was also responsible for the script and production . The German theatrical release was on May 2, 2013.

action

Charlie's thoughts are screened by a psychiatrist . He notes that Charlie's mind is mostly about sex , but he has a repressed problem with shoes that leads to the real plot:

The successful graphic designer Charles Swan III is leaving his girlfriend Ivana after she found nude photos of his previous love affairs.

The depressed Charlie drives his car to a valley to throw away Ivana's shoes. The trash bag with the shoes ends up in a tree. Trying to get to the sack, Charlie almost falls into the abyss and then gives up. When he wants to leave, due to unfortunate circumstances, he finally falls down the cliff in his car and ends up in a pool in someone else's garden.

Charlie is admitted to a hospital with heart pain and a numb arm. There he is visited by his sister Izzy and her children, his best friend Kirby Star, a Jewish stand-up comedian for whom he is supposed to design a cover , and his manager Saul, from whom Charlie is informed about his financial problems. Saul has marital problems of his own and is invited by Charlie to sleep in his house. Charlie experiences a series of daydreams and hallucinations that remind him of times gone by with Ivana and in which he experiences surreal worlds with Kirby and Saul, in which Ivana always appears.

Charlie cannot cope with the separation from Ivana, neglects the work and draws up a will . However, Charlie gets the diagnosis from his doctor that he is healthy , apart from severe heartburn , and is discharged.

At home he meets Saul, his housekeeper and his bird. Charlie wants to start over with his life, but the past catches up with Ivana's sister when she calls to announce that she wants to pick up Ivana's ski gear .

At his grandmother's birthday party, Charlie learns from his sister that her publisher has refused to publish her book and promises her revenge.

Charlie's bird dies and via messages on the answering machine , Charlie learns that Ivana's sister wants to come over that same day and that his company is going to have a company party.

Charlie worried from Kirby's friend a listening device , place the transmitter in Ivana's ski equipment and drives to a bar. Drunk driving it to the publisher of his sister, where he smashed the glass of the front door with a trash can and then before the alerted security staff of the Security Service flees on foot . When he meets a taxi, he gets in and wants to get drugs. The taxi driver drives him to a friend, from whom Charlie buys caviar and vodka. Charlie can be driven to Ivana's house and listens to her. He learns that she is with a new friend. Ivana and her new boyfriend notice Charlie in the front yard and Ivana and Charlie have a last conversation.

Charlie lets himself be driven to his company's company party, where the police had already been looking for him before. In honor of Charlie, the company presents Charles Swan III Junior , a Charlie-inspired puppet who helped Charlie come up with an idea for Kirby's cover.

Charlie drives back to the place where he threw away his ex-girlfriend's shoes, climbs to the garbage bag and finally throws it into the valley. Then he drives to the photo shoot for Kirby's cover, for which everyone involved in the film is photographed. Finally, the main actors introduce themselves by name.

publication

On January 8, 2013, the film was released at various online video stores. The limited theatrical release in the USA started on February 8th by distributor A24 . The German theatrical release was on May 2, 2013.

Reviews

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was standing October 8, 2013

“And here we have the first contender and certain winner for what is probably the worst film of 2013: Charlie's World. You seldom see works that are so consistently terrible as Roman Coppola's attempt to win something funny from the public disintegration of Charlie Sheen, especially when Sheen himself likes to participate. [...] And so the viewer stays on the surface with his feelings and sees one thing above all: Charlie Sheen, who somehow plays himself, together with a few other actors in a strange and embarrassing film that doesn't make sense and gives the feeling , Here a 10-year-old would have scribbled a script on a napkin and then filmed it with an incredible amount of equipment. "

- Beatrice Behn : kino-zeit.de

“The film starts with Charles Swan. [...] It seems that the character and the actor merge into one. What could be said about Charles Swan could also be said about Charlie Sheen. So the movie's biggest coup is its cast. Roman Coppola got Charlie Sheen to play himself - or at least with the public image he has. [...] Because the film only works halfway if you understand it as a Charlie Sheen show. But it is also necessary to keep Sheen's antics of the last few years in mind, because this is the only way to open up a meta-level that does not otherwise exist in this film, which has been violently trimmed to Arthaus. "

- Peter Osteried : gamona.de

“It all sounds like an episode from the life of actor Charlie Sheen. And already in the first minutes of the film it becomes clear that a distinction between actor and role is actually not desired. Coppola wrote the script along the lines of his leading actor. [...] His film is full of hyper-colorful ideas and quotes - Bill Murray as John Wayne between half-naked squaws, Charlie's tango with his ex-girlfriends in a cemetery, a chase with brutalized female Nazi henchmen. Thanks to the set design by Elliott Hostetter (True Grit), it's all pretty to look at, but the characters completely fade in between. "

“If you want to know how the pack feature pages are going, all you have to do is google the American reviews of Roman Coppola's 'Charlie's World'. No film has been panned more unanimously in a long time. 'I kept trying to look past the actors because the sets were the only thing I could bear,' wrote the late Roger Ebert, for example. Elsewhere it was said that the audience had the opportunity to find out how long 84 minutes were - very, very long. Or: 'Like Fellini's "8 1/2" without heart and soul, from actors and a stick who have all coked up their wits.' Sounds interesting. What causes so much anger must have hit a nerve. [...] Charles Swan, that is the man that all men were allowed to be until just now, you just don't notice it right away because Roman Coppola has opted for an aesthetic of massive exaggeration. [...] He is played by Charlie Sheen, the most devilish of all men in the western hemisphere, known to be too stubborn, too stupid, too drunk to give up his sexism until he fell. […] Such a film is Coppola's 'Charlie's World': a wild, lurching and very intelligent funeral of the very last man who pretends to be funny, but that's just an attempt (perhaps unsuitably manly) with melancholy get along. One last time this man - Charles Swan, Charlie Sheen, Charles Swann - lets his dreams fly. To find out that nobody wants to dream it anymore. In the future, women will be like men were: acting, determined, rejecting anyone who does not meet their demands. And the men will be like the women they have placed themselves on: suffering from psychosomatic symptoms, indulging in their inwardness. It is possible that the American film critics were so angry with Coppola's film because he affords the generosity to confront us once again with the melancholy that wafts through all representatives of extinct species. "

- Peter Praschl : The world

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release Certificate for Charlie's World - Really Nothing is Real . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 272 K).
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  8. Peter Osteried: A look into Charlie Sheen's brain: Do we really want to see that? gamona.de, February 2, 2013, accessed on March 31, 2013 .
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