Coraline (film)

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Movie
German title Coraline
Original title Coraline
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Henry Selick
script Henry Selick
production Claire Jennings ,
Mary Sandell
music Bruno Coulais ,
They Might Be Giants
camera Pete Kozachik
cut Christopher Murrie ,
Ronald Sanders
synchronization

Coraline is an animated film of the American director Henry Selick from 2009. The in stop motion made process 3D production based on the novel by Neil Gaiman , which was adapted by Selick himself for the big screen, the action clearly has been expanded and changed.

action

Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones and her parents move into an apartment in a remote, run-down villa in the country that has since been converted into an apartment building. Coraline's busy parents pay little attention to the imaginative daughter and are working feverishly on the forthcoming publication of a joint garden catalog. Coraline goes looking for an old well with a divining rod . She meets Wyborne Lovat, called "Wybie". The nosy and talkative neighbor boy, whose grandmother owns the villa, has a preference for dark clothes and bizarre appearances, which are always accompanied by a black hangover. Coraline's neighbors are also eccentric. The Russian emigrant and huge acrobat Mr. Bobinsky lives on the top floor and pretends secretly a jerboas circus train. The basement is occupied by the two former British vaudeville artists Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, who keep three Scottish Terriers , which they adore like their stuffed ancestors.

When Coraline is bored, she comes across a locked little door in the living room that is behind the wallpaper. When her mother opens the door with a key, only a brick wall is hidden behind it. A short time later, Wybie pays Coraline a visit and gives her a doll that looks amazingly similar to her. He found it with his grandmother. Wybie's grandmother has strictly forbidden her grandson to enter the apartment building because her sister disappeared into the house without a trace when she was a child. That same night, Coraline is woken up by a small button-eyed jerboa. She follows this through the door in the wall, behind which there is now a tunnel into another world, in which Coraline receives the necessary attention and attention that was previously denied to her.

In this world, Coraline's parents are always in a good mood. Her other mother regularly takes care of delicious dinners, the father practices on a mechanical piano and designs the garden to match his daughter's face. The pushy and hyperactive Wybie has lost speech and can no longer interrupt the girl. Mr. Bobinsky invites you to a show of the jerboa circus while the two aging revue stars perform some vocal numbers for Coraline and get them back on track. The girl visits the parallel world several times, the people and animals of which seem to differ from their counterparts in the real world only through buttons instead of eyes. There she also meets Wybie's cat, who like her has crossed the tunnel and now speaks human language. He and Coraline are the only ones in the parallel world who have normal eyes. He begins to warn Coraline about her other mother.

This land of milk and honey begins to turn into a nightmare when Coraline refuses the other mother's offer to also exchange her eyes for two buttons in order to receive eternal asylum in the beautiful parallel world. Behind the other mother, there is actually an old spider-like woman who captures children's souls in order to enslave them as a remedy for their loneliness. As a spy in the dreary reality, the witch used the identical-looking doll that Wybie Coraline once gave to Coraline with no ill intentions. Coraline realizes that the promised land of milk and honey ends behind the edge of the forest a few meters away and that most people and animals are in reality just simple rag dolls.

In a game with the witch, Coraline frees the three previously captured children's souls, including the missing sister of her landlady, with the help of the other Wybie, the cat and a magical stone from Miss Spink and Miss Forcible. Coraline also manages to save her parents, who kidnapped the witch from the real world and locked them in a snow globe . Back in the real world, Coraline fends off another attack by the witch with the help of Wybie. Their claw tries in vain to get hold of the wall door key, which the two children sunk in the deep well. Coraline's parents have no memories of what happened after the witch was driven away. They pay more attention to their daughter after the catalog is published and also give her gifts. In summer, mother and father and the other neighbors plant tulips in the garden at Coraline's request . Wybie and his grandmother also join the garden party.

Production and publication

Director Henry Selick during South by Southwest 2009 .

In addition to screenwriter and director Henry Selick , known from comparable works such as Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the giant peach , Pete Kozachik worked as cameraman, and Christopher Murrie and Ronald Sanders as editors . The production design was designed by Henry Selick and the music was composed by Bruno Coulais . The duo They Might Be Giants recorded several titles for Coraline , but only one song was ultimately used for the film. The film was produced by Laika Entertainment and Pandemonium.

The original author Neil Gaiman is believed to have written Coraline as a story for his own children, but sent a copy to Henry Selick very early on. As an outsider in the film business, Selick should have found it difficult to implement the film, as the necessary financial backers were difficult to find. An implementation as a real film was also under discussion.

Universal Studios distributes the film worldwide. The premiere was on February 5, 2009 at the Portland International Film Festival , followed by theatrical releases in North and South America, Europe, Asia, South Africa and Australia. The film was released in German cinemas on August 13, 2009. In the USA a DVD with Coraline was released in 2009 by Universal.

When it was first published, the German DVD contained the 2D version as well as a 3D version, which is why the double DVD includes four red-green glasses. In the opening credits of the 3D version, it is pointed out that it can take up to five minutes for the 3D effect to occur. Later editions only contained the 2D version.

synchronization

The RC Production Kunze & Wunder GmbH & Co. KG in Berlin took over the synchronous work. Oliver Rohrbeck wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role English speaker German speaker
Coraline Jones Dakota Fanning Luisa Wietzorek
Mother / other mother / old hag Teri Hatcher Bettina White
Miss April Spink Jennifer Saunders Isabella Grothe
Miss Miriam Forcible Dawn French Katja Nottke
cat Keith David Pure beauty
Father / other father John Hodgman Patrick Winczewski
Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat Robert Bailey Jr. Hannes Maurer
Sergei Alexander Bobinsky Ian McShane Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Miss Lovat, Wybie's grandmother Carolyn Crawford Luise Lunow

reception

The film received consistently positive reviews. David Edelstein of New York Magazine describes Coraline as an "excellent, enchanting and at times unnerving film" whose traditional animation technique has been improved with computer animation. The music moves between children's choirs and A Night on Bald Mountain and Selick created breathtaking surroundings for the plot. But more concentration on the plot instead of the effects would have done the film good and the boy Wybie, whom Selick added to the plot, destroys the climax of the film. The film grossed over $ 18 million in the first four days.

German critics particularly praise the combination of stop motion and computer animation. Thomas Klein, author of the Berliner Zeitung , emphasizes in particular that the film is not suitable for children because it addresses many fears. In addition, he sees in the film a confrontation with a drug addiction, which, like the dream world, is initially tempting, but then has serious consequences. According to David Kleingers from Spiegel , the implementation “never desires effects despite the exuberant desire to show” and the film enchants without appearing cheesy. The plot does not offer simple morals, but is profound and "plenty of room for unspoken dreams and fears".

Awards

At the end of November 2009, Coraline received the BAFTA Children's Award for best film. At the presentation of the Annie Awards on February 6, 2010, Selick's directorial work led the field of favorite films with ten nominations before the top (nine nominations), but had to admit defeat in the categories of film and directing the Pixar production and won three prizes (best character design , best film music and production design).

Also nominations received Coraline in the category of animated film at the Academy Awards in 2010 , Golden Globe Awards in 2010 , the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2010 and the Film Critics Association of Washington DC in 2009.

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the rating particularly valuable .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Coraline . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 100 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Coraline . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Henry Selick — Coraline — 1/27/09. In: Groucho Reviews. Retrieved August 17, 2009 (interview with Henry Selick).
  4. ↑ a b c Thomas Klein: Nightmares in Wonderland . In: Berliner Zeitung , August 13, 2009
  5. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Coraline. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  6. ^ David Edelstein: What You See Is What You Get. In: New York Magazine. February 1, 2009, accessed August 16, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Brandon Gray: Holdovers Live Under Killer 'Friday' Debut. In: Box Office Mojo. February 17, 2009, accessed August 16, 2009 .
  8. ↑ a b David Kleingers: Horror trip to the doll world. In: Spiegel-Online. August 12, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Bert Rebhandel: Too much care is not the problem here. In: FAZ.net. August 14, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2009 .
  10. ↑ Coraline on fbw-filmb Bewertung.com

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