The girl and the photographer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The girl and the photographer |
| Original title | Guinevere |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Audrey Wells |
| script | Audrey Wells |
| production |
Jonathan King , Brad Weston |
| music | Christophe Beck |
| camera | Charles Minsky |
| cut | Dody thorn |
| occupation | |
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The Girl and the Photographer (Original title: Guinevere ) is an American drama from 1999 . Audrey Wells directed and wrote the script.
action
Harper Sloane, 21, comes from an influential family in San Francisco . She is accepted as a student at Harvard University . At her sister's wedding, Sloane meets the 50-year-old photographer Connie Fitzpatrick, whom she calls Guinevere . She visits him in his apartment and starts a relationship with him. Fitzpatrick gives her photography lessons.
Harper's mother, Deborah, learns of the relationship and harasses the couple. Harper finds out that Fitzpatrick has had numerous affairs with other women. She leaves him after a year.
When the sick Fitzpatrick is dying, he is visited by his former friends, including Sloane. Harper stays with him until his death.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that 1999 belongs to actress Sarah Polley and greatly praised her portrayal in the film. The film is "elegantly written" and "often sensitive". It is good, but not perfect and offers nothing surprising or unexpected.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on October 4, 1999 that the director avoids judging the relationship between people of different ages. Sarah Polley shows in her role the depth of feelings without looking cheap. The film is not perfect, but has a “heart in the right place”.
Awards
Audrey Wells won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award during the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Award. In 1999 she won the Special Jury Prize of the Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for another prize at that festival. Wells and Jean Smart were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 2000.
Audrey Wells was nominated for the Golden St. George of the Moscow International Film Festival in 1999. Sarah Polley was nominated for the Chlotrudis Award in 2000. The film was nominated for the Artios Prize of the Casting Society of America in 2000.
backgrounds
The film was shot in Los Angeles and San Francisco . Its production amounted to an estimated 2.6 million US dollars . The film had its world premiere in January 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival ; on September 17, 1999, he was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival . Screenings in selected US cinemas began on September 24, 1999; there the film grossed around 614 thousand US dollars.
Web links
- The girl and the photographer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The girl and the photographer at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The girl and the photographer at Metacritic (English)