The girl in the park

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Movie
German title The girl in the park
Original title The Girl in the Park
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length approx. 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Auburn
script David Auburn
production Bryan Furst ,
Sean Furst ,
Dale Rosenbloom
music Theodore Shapiro
camera Stuart Dryburgh
cut Kristina Boden
occupation

The Girl in the Park (original title: The Girl in the Park ) is an American drama from 2007. Directed by David Auburn , who also wrote the screenplay.

action

Julia is an aspiring singer. She lives in a house with her husband and two young children and has just been offered a record deal. The next day she goes to a playground with her three-year-old daughter Maggie, where the child disappears without a trace.

Around 16 years later, Julia's life has changed completely: She is divorced from her husband, lives in a rented apartment, has an office job and has a bad relationship with her son Chris, who is now successfully running a construction company. He becomes engaged to his pregnant girlfriend Celeste - Julia is late for the party and leaves the party before she has met Celeste's parents. The next day she sees a young woman in a café who looks like an adult Maggie. Julia follows her, spontaneously provides her with an alibi when the woman steals sunglasses in a shop, and finds them in front of her workplace in the evening. The young woman says she is from Michigan, pregnant and needs money to travel home. Julia spontaneously gives her 700 dollars. The next day she sees the woman with bills in hand with friends in a bar and indignantly confronts her; Julia is kicked out of the bar. When she starts talking to unfamiliar children at random in the playground where Maggie disappeared, she is arrested by the police.

The next day the young woman stands in front of Juliet's door. She returns the money and introduces herself as Louise. Julia lets her move in with her, gives her her own room and lets her take advantage of her. When Louise brings a man into the apartment at night, Julia flees to a work colleague with whom she spends the night. She blossoms at Louise's side and has her hair dyed brown so that she resembles young Maggie. Maggie had a characteristic mole on her thigh, but Julia fails to examine Louise's thigh. She presents Louise as a work colleague in front of her son and as a daughter in front of her colleagues. Meanwhile, Louise finds Julia's CD at a junk dealer, which she released 16 years ago.

When Julia comes home from a second rendezvous with her work colleague, she meets Louise and a man whom she introduces as her brother Stuart. Terrified, Julia puts both of them in front of the door, but brings Louise back when Stuart calls her "Maggie". Louise now reports that she was adopted and called "Maggie" by her adoptive parents. When looking at old photos together, Julia Louise now consciously equates her missing daughter Maggie. Together they go to the celebration the day before Chris' wedding, where Julia thanks at the end that "Maggie" was allowed to appear. The wedding party is shocked and Chris tells Julia to her face that Maggie is dead. Louise fled and left the apartment when Juliet returned. Julia's CD is on the table with the dedication “To Maggie” on the back.

Julia returns to her old life and also rejects her work colleagues. Celeste's baby, a girl, is born and Julia is happy to be holding her. At home a tearful Louise is waiting in front of her door and Julia lets her into the apartment. Louise puts a picture in Julia's photo album that shows her as a little girl with two other people.

Reviews

Alissa Simon wrote in Variety magazine on September 12, 2007 that the film wavered between a melodrama and a psychological thriller. The situations are similar to those of a soap opera ; the dialogues are "swingless"; the portrayal of Sigourney Weaver is "overwrought".

backgrounds

The film was shot in New York City . It had its world premiere on September 9, 2007 at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Girl in the Park . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 663 DVD).
  2. ^ Film review by Alissa Simon, accessed September 17, 2007
  3. ^ Filming locations for The Girl in the Park, accessed September 17, 2007
  4. ↑ The Girl in the Park premiere dates , accessed September 17, 2007