Cyrus (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cyrus - my girlfriend, her son, and me |
| Original title | Cyrus |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Jay Duplass Mark Duplass |
| script | Jay Duplass Mark Duplass |
| production | Michael Costigan |
| music | Michael Andrews |
| camera | Jas Shelton |
| cut | Jay Deuby |
| occupation | |
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Cyrus - My girlfriend, her son and I is an American mumblecore film from the year 2010 with John C. Reilly , Jonah Hill , Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener in the lead roles. Jay and Mark Duplass are directing and writing the film . The film premiered in Germany on November 25, 2010.
action
Jamie ( Catherine Keener ) and the film editor John ( John C. Reilly ) are in their mid-40s, long-time ex-spouses and very close friends. When Jamie tries to announce her imminent wedding to Tim (Matt Walsh) to John, she accidentally surprises him while masturbating. Although the two have been separated for 7 years, John is surprised and depressed by the impending final separation. Jamie convinces John to come to a party so he can get out of his emotional low. During the game, the headstrong John tries to make contact with women with different strategies, but does not find the desired response. His last attempt was the drastically honest disclosure of his condition, which Molly ( Marisa Tomei ) has observed. When the now drunk John urinates in the bushes in the garden, Molly compliments him for his penis and for his previous emotional opening. The long-awaited happiness seems to come true, John storms the dance floor. At the end of the evening, they both lie in John's bed together, have sex, and begin to develop a nice relationship. But shortly thereafter, Molly hurriedly leaves John's apartment.
The next evening the scene is repeated, this time John secretly follows her in his car. He stops in front of Molly's house and falls asleep in the car. The next morning he sniffs around her house and meets the other man in Molly's life - Cyrus, her son. The obviously curious Cyrus persuades the equally curious John to come into the house. Cyrus shows John his synthesizers and plays electronic music he has produced himself. When Molly comes home, she is scared at first, but then agrees to have dinner together. The atmosphere is very understanding and attentive. John stays with Molly and notices the extraordinary closeness between mother and son - he goes to the bathroom while she is showering in the same room, they sing together, and at night the doors of both bedrooms are open.
The next morning, John can't find his shoes, which supposedly nobody wants to see, and has to drive home in socks. He suspects Cyrus and at the same time strongly doubts his perception - the understanding demeanor of Cyrus and the theft of the shoes seem too contradictory. John asks his ex-wife Jamie for advice and arranges a "chance" meeting with her, Molly and Cyrus in the park. Jamie is supposed to assess the situation and describe her impression. Cyrus and Molly seem very harmonious and original to her, if a little very intimate. John is reassured for now.
When John and Molly have sex for the first time in Molly's house that evening, panic attack Cyrus starts screaming in his room. Molly immediately comforts him and falls asleep in his room. During a late night “man to man” conversation, Cyrus (with a large kitchen knife in hand) advises John not to harass Molly and to hold back emotionally. John then writes a short, emotionless farewell letter and drives home immediately.
In the morning, Cyrus claims that his mother molly bothered John too emotionally and presents John's farewell slip as evidence. Cyrus takes advantage of their trust in him to alienate them. When Molly wants to know more, Cyrus freaks out and disappears, but not without looking through the window from outside to see how his mother reacts to it. When Cyrus comes home in the evening and explains that he is moving into a musicians' flat immediately, he leaves his mother feeling guilty. John helps pack and finds his missing shoes in Cyrus' closet. Some time later, John moves into Molly's house.
One evening they both come home and exchange tenderness while Cyrus sits in the dark and surprises them both. Because of his panic attacks, he wants to move back in with Molly, who sympathetically agrees. Later, John clearly expresses the breach of trust regarding the stolen shoes to Cyrus and the resulting antipathy. A power game develops with “armament” through manipulation and threats of violence on both sides. Both want an exclusive relationship with Molly and only see an "either-or" possible. The situation comes to a head during Jamie and Tim's wedding. John and Molly clearly show to the outside world that they are happy together, which apparently offends Cyrus. Visibly drunk, he physically attacks John, but still manages to make John appear as the perpetrator due to his manipulative skills. Molly positions herself for the time being on the side of Cyrus. John then separates from Molly because he suspects that the situation will get worse for him and that Molly will leave him. He moves into a new apartment to avoid the power struggle with Cyrus. In doing so, he sustainably breaks through the dynamic of the "triangular relationship". The meanwhile permanently unhappy Molly then begins to reflect critically on her relationship with her son and to set limits for him. His manipulations no longer work on her. One day Cyrus rings John's doorbell and tries to persuade him to come back to Molly. John goes into a tantrum and screams out all reproaches and frustration about the relationship that Cyrus has destroyed. Later both talk to each other in peace and reveal their manipulative tricks to each other. This creates a certain amount of trust. Cyrus manipulates John, who, contrary to his intention of not wanting to see Molly again, drives Cyrus home and meets Molly there. The end of the film shows John's increasingly pleased expression on eye contact with Molly.
Stylistic features
The film Cyrus is neither comedy nor drama , but a tightrope walk between the two genres that avoids clichés without deciding on either of the two. The film undermines the audience's expectations of a comedy and contrasts the plot with the attempts of the protagonists to seriously resolve their conflicts instead of letting them escalate in a humorous way. The actors improvised a lot for Cyrus . The camera work is restless but at the same time very close to the actors, which gives a feeling of emotional closeness to the protagonists. The two Mumblecore directors used handheld cameras - analogous to the way they worked in their previous films. At key moments in the action, the camera performs characteristic abrupt zooms.
Reviews
“The Duplasses do not have the energy and probably also not the will to develop a plot that is gripping to the end for this fatal love triangle. They leave the common punch lines behind, and the rather effortless visual guidance is also part of the concept. But with their penchant for improvisation they have already created a new genre: a disturbing form of comedy whose horror rests on nothing but bare humanity. "
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Cyrus in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Cyrus . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 332 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Cyrus . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Fox Searchlight: Cyrus (production notes) (PDF; 445 kB) In: Torino Film Festival . Accessed on December 21, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bohemian Bastard: Cyrus - A Comedy Without the Mumblecore. In: Biased Bohemian. August 6, 2010 ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 21, 2012.
- ↑ Jens Hamp: Cyrus , in: Filmstarts. Retrieved January 3, 2013
- ↑ Philipp Bühler: Demon and mother's boy. "Cyrus - my girlfriend, her son and me" is an incestuous comedy to scare you . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 276/2010 , November 25, 2010, cultural calendar. Film / cinema program, p. 5 .
