Dark Places - Dangerous Memory (film)

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Movie
German title Dark Places: Dangerous Memory
Original title Dark Places
Country of production France , USA
Publishing year 2015
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gilles Paquet burner
script Gilles Paquet burner
production Azim Bolkiah ,
Cathy Schulman ,
Charlize Theron ,
Matthew Rhodes,
Beth Kono,
Matt Jackson
music Gregory Tripi
camera Barry Ackroyd
cut Douglas Crise ,
Billy Fox
occupation

Dark Places: Hazardous memory is a mystery - thriller by Gilles Paquet-Brenner , who celebrated on March 31, 2015 Paris premiered and was released in Germany on December 10, 2015. The film is based on the novel Dark Places by Gillian Flynn from 2009. In 2010 the German translation Finstere Orte was published by Fischer-Scherz-Verlag and in 2014 a translation with the title Dark Places - Dangerous Memory . On April 21, 2016, the film was released in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray.

action

The Kill Club is an association of people who try to solve crimes that have long been filed by the authorities and the police. They are all more or less well-heeled ex-police officers, ex-lawyers and members of other sectors who deal with solving crimes. She is interested in Libby Day, a woman in her mid-thirties who, as a seven-year-old, witnessed the murder of her mother and two sisters, for which her brother Ben has to go to prison forever, according to his confession and Libby's testimony. But the club doubts the accuracy of Libby's account in the process at the time and in a book that was later published on her behalf. He pays the money-dependent Libby to pick up the strings that have been painstakingly severed to her past. The club tries to determine if Ben is really guilty or if someone else committed the crime.

Initiated by the club, Libby visits her brother in prison and, although she learns nothing significant from him, she finds a tattoo on his arm that was previously unknown to her, which during further research turns out to be a significant clue to a former friend of Ben's. While Libby, who is still struggling with the shadows of her past, continues to research, the film shows in flashbacks what happened in the Day family home at the time.

The family was completely impoverished and their house was threatened with expropriation. The then 17-year-old Ben had fallen into disrepute for adhering to satanic cults and allegedly molesting girls. Flashbacks show that these were just rumors and allegations. Ben had a mistress at the time, Diondra, who was pregnant by him and wanted to run away with him; which she could persuade him to do.

To steal money, Ben and Diondra broke into his parents' house. There they came across a contract killer whom his mother had commissioned to murder them herself in order to obtain insurance for her children and thus to improve their lives.

The surprised hit man killed Ben's mother and one of the two sisters, while Diondra strangled the other sister in the affect.

Back in the present, Libby finds the trail of her brother's lover, who has since disappeared without a trace. In her bathroom, she finds a gold chain that once belonged to her mother and thus suspects that Diondra must have been involved in the murders at the time. Diondra and her daughter try to take out Libby, but they fail.

Towards the end of the film, Libby visits her brother in prison, from which he is likely to be released soon. He had assumed the blame for the three murders in order to protect the pregnant Diondra from prosecution and to enable their child to live an unencumbered life.

On the way back, Libby drives back to the old farm that once belonged to her family. From a distance, she sees that the new owners are obviously living there unencumbered by any past or memory. She herself now finally wants to give direction to her previously aimless life.

production

The film is based on the mystery novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn from 2009, making it the second film adaptation of a novel by the author after Gone Girl - The Perfect Victim . It was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, who had won several awards for the film Sarah's Key .

The film premiered on March 31, 2015 in Paris and was released in German cinemas on December 10, 2015. The film was screened on October 26, 2016 at the Tokyo International Film Festival .

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Taunusfilm Synchron GmbH. Dialogue script and direction: Marc Boettcher .

reception

Christopher Diekhaus from the Munich online film magazine artechock says: “Neither the promising cast nor the tense source material can save Dark Places from falling into insignificance and monotony.” Diekhaus criticizes that director Paquet-Brenner shows himself incapable of “Libby's current investigation and the tragic one Into interlocking prehistory. The jumps between the present and the past seem more and more tiring. "'

Peter Müller from the Berliner Morgenpost also notes that Paquet-Brenner has noticeably difficulties in doing justice to the intricately branched thriller: “He gives his characters little format. He inserts oddly grainy flashbacks. He hardly shows any sympathy for even one of his characters. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Dark Places - Dangerous Memory . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weninger: Finstere Orte : In: krimi-couch.de, 03/2010.
  3. ↑ Christopher Diekhaus: Dark Places - Dangerous Memory In: artechock.de. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
  4. ↑ Peter E. Müller: When the shadow of the past extends into the present: The book adaptation 'Dark Places' with Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult In: Berliner Morgenpost Online, December 10, 2015.