The disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

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Movie
German title The disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Original title The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ned Benson
script Ned Benson
production Jessica Chastain ,
Cassandra Kulukundis ,
Todd J. Labarowski ,
Emanuel Michael
music Son Lux
camera Christopher Blauvelt
cut Cristina Esterás-Ortiz ,
Abbi Jutkowitz
occupation
synchronization

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Original title: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them ) is an American drama from 2014. Ned Benson directed and also wrote the screenplay. It is his first feature film. Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy play the leading roles .

The project was shot as a two-part film, which is intended to illustrate the respective perspectives of the couple played by Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy. In this version, both parts of the film were shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 , where they were very well received. After the premiere, Ned Benson cut the film and merged the versions Her , who tells the story from Eleanor's point of view, and Him , who takes Conor's point of view, into Them . The different perspectives of both now alternate, whereby the choice of color support shows whose view is currently being reproduced. Conor moves mainly in a cold-bluish world in the evening streets of New York or his dark, small bar, Eleanor in the warm tones of her youth room in her parents' estate or in the university accompanied by Lillian Friedman.

Basic structure

The plot of the cut together parts Her and Him zu Them shows how Eleanor and Conor get to know and love each other, makes a cut, and then starts the plot again a few years later, in which the different points of view of the main characters are reproduced. It is learned that Eleanor and Conor lived happily married in an apartment in New York. Conor ran a small pub with his best friend Stuart while Eleanor was working on her dissertation. Then something must have happened that the film only gradually reveals.

action

A woman and a man are sitting in a New York restaurant. They spontaneously decide to hit the bill. Together they run into a nearby park, laughing exuberantly, rolling in the grass, exchanging tenderness and watching the fireflies.

Jump in time: The woman who is Eleanor Rigby, as we learn shortly afterwards, walks aimlessly and listlessly through the streets of the city. Suddenly she jumps off the Manhattan Bridge into the depths of the gurgling water. A man's quick mind response can save her. After a short stay in hospital, Eleanor moves back into her parents' home in the Westport suburb. When they arrive, it becomes clear that they want to leave out a certain topic.

Now we also learn that the man Eleanor was so happy with at the beginning of the film is Conor Ludlow. He lives in a small, dark room behind his bar and looks worn out. His attempt to call Eleanor fails. He decides to stay with his father for a while.

Eleanor has now had her long hair cut into a short hairstyle, which goes hand in hand with her decision to resume her studies. She quickly becomes friends with professor Lillian Friedman. She also tells her that her parents named her after the Beatles song of the same name .

Through his friend Stuart, Conor learns that Eleanor is back in town. In fact, he can find her. For a few days he followed Eleanor without making himself noticeable. When he talks to his father about this, he says that Conor should be careful not to mourn things. When she tries to contact Eleanor, she yells at him: “What did we agree on, Conor? Just leave me alone, ”and storms off. Conor follows her and is hit by a car. Eleanor runs back to him excited and worried. When a passerby asks if she knows the man, she replies: “Yes, he is my husband.” Waiting on the curb for the ambulance, neither of them can find the right words even now.

Eleanor knows that her parents mean well, but is still angry when she comes home and is confronted with a psychologist friend. Her father tries to appease her by pointing out her condition, which makes her even more angry. “He was my grandson too, I lost him too,” is all he creates. Eleanor doesn't want to touch the subject, however, the pain is too great. A few days later, Conor goes to the Rigby's house, but only finds Mary Rigby. She ponders that it has been seven years since Eleanor first brought him. When she wants to know how he's doing, he just says he just kept going, what else could he have done. "People grieve differently," is Mary's answer.

When Eleanor was talking to her sister Katy that evening, she reproached her for pulling the floor from under Conor's feet. Eleanor replies that he stuffed all of Cody's things in the closet and ordered Chinese food ten minutes later. They tried for six months, they were together but light years apart. She had thoughts that she never thought possible.

After Conor had to tell his friend Stuart, who works as a cook for him, that the restaurant is no longer viable, he finds Eleanor sitting at the bar when he enters the dining room. They disappear together, just like Eleanor wants. During a joyride in the car you get caught in a bad storm and have to stop because the windshield wiper system is defective. Conor confesses to Eleanor that he slept with another woman. Eleanor then breaks off the lovemaking that has just started. Even now it is impossible for either of them to talk about their true feelings.

After Conor has closed his restaurant, he talks to his father and says that his life is in ruins. For the first time he also succeeds in talking about his dead son. “Since what happened happened,” he tries to put into words, be it every thought or even the smallest memory of him, something that he keeps as far away from himself as possible. The next morning, when Conor clears out the apartment that he has lived in with his family, he is also confronted with many objects that had to do with his son. Exhausted, he falls asleep on the sofa after a while and finds himself across from Eleanor when he wakes up. "Sometimes I see his eyes for a brief moment, and how he is well-behaved in his little bed, beaming at me," says Eleanor, "and then his image disappears again." Conor's answer surprises her and shows her how much he loved their son. They try to stifle their grief with tenderness and Eleanor tells Conor that she loves him. When he fell asleep, she left. She wants to continue her anthropology studies in Paris, which she abandoned during her doctorate . Before that, however, she takes out a picture that shows her, Conor and her little son and hangs it with the other family pictures in the stairwell.

Time has passed. Conor now successfully runs his father's established restaurant. When he decides to do another lap in front of the main store that evening, he strives for the park where the love for Eleanor began. Shortly afterwards Eleanor appears and also enters the area not far from Conor.

Production, background and publication

The Unison film was presented by Myriad Pictures, Dreambridge Films Standard Deviations Production in association with Kim and Jim Productions, Division Films. The film was shot in New York. It had an estimated budget of $ 3 million. Approximate earnings in the United States on September 28, 2014 were $ 585,640.

The first version of the screenplay by director and writer Ned Benson stipulated that the story would be told exclusively from Conor's point of view, and Eleanor would therefore, as the title suggests, disappear from his life without any explanation. After his then partner Jessica Chastain had read the script, however, she suggested that the role of Eleanor be expanded. This soon led to the approach of making two films, one from his point of view and one from her point of view, which was then implemented. These interdependent films premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2013 as The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him . Only then were both parts cut and merged into one version, which had its premiere in 2014 at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un certain regard section .

Jessica Chastain commented on the love scenes she had to shoot with James McAvoy that she had struggled to stay serious because McAvoy was very funny. In order to be free for the role of Eleanor Rigby, for which she was first choice, Chastain turned down the role of Maya Hansen in the comic book version Iron Man 3 .

The film was shown at the following festivals:

In the USA it started on September 12, 2014 under the original title The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them . It was first seen in Germany on November 27, 2014 under the title The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby . It was also marketed in the following countries: Turkey, Austria, Singapore, Belgium, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Greece, Hungary and Russia.

The film was released on May 7, 2015 by Studio Prokino (EuroVideo Medien GmbH) with a German soundtrack on DVD (playing time 118 minutes).

synchronization

The German dubbing was done at Scalamedia GmbH in Munich under the dialogue direction and the dialogue book by Marina Köhler .

Role name actor Voice actor
Eleanor Rigby Jessica Chastain Stefanie von Lerchenfeld
Conor Ludlow James McAvoy Johannes Raspe
Alexis Nina Arianda Angela Wiederhut
Prof. Lillian Friedman Viola Davis Sandra Schwittau
Stuart Bill Hader Stefan Günther
Spencer Ludlow Ciarán Hinds Bernd Rumpf
Mary Rigby Isabelle Huppert Julia Kratz
Julian Rigby William Hurt Wolfgang Condrus
Katy Rigby Jess Weixler Katharina Schwarzmaier
Sia Nikki M. James Kathrin Gaube

Music in the film

  • Don't wake the dead , written and performed by Guards
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 23 in A major, KV 488, 2nd movement: “Adagio” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Process , written and performed by Flying Points, arranged by Jim Long
  • Variations on a Theme by Haydn , op.56b, written by Johannes Brahms , arranged by Jim Long
  • Valentine's Day , written and presented by Max Kagan and Scott Weinshank
  • How to talk to Girls , written and presented by James Webber
  • Nam , written and performed by Max Kagan and Scott Weinshank
  • Sailing , written by Dave Hodge and Leah Siegel, presented by Leisure Cruise
  • Concert for King Ferdinand IV of Naples , written by Joseph Haydn , arranged by Jim Long
  • Not Supposed To , written and performed by Guards
  • A Great Design , written by Chris Stewart , performed by Black Marble
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 in D major KV 218 “Andante cantabile” by Mozart, arranged by Jim Long
  • The Blame , written and performed by Flying Points
  • Dance Across the Sky , written by Garens Gueyikian and Keyle Kelso, performed by Kill the Alarm
  • The Lucky One , written by Tomas Costanza, Jacquelyn Willard, Ashley Levy, Niki Schiveley, Mike London, performed by Jayuelyn Willard
  • So in Love , written by Andrew McCluskey and Paul David Humphreys , performed by the Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
  • Whiskey in my Blood , written and performed by Max Kagan and Scott Weinshank
  • Blue Ball Blues , written and performed by Max Kagan and Scott Weinshank
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 G major KV 216 “Adagio”, written by Mozart, arranged by Jim Long
  • Me without you , written by Lacey Caroline Steinel and Keyle Kelso, performed by Lacey Caroline
  • Dancing with the Lights Out , written and performed by Roxxpin
  • Went to War , written and performed by Amason
  • No Resisto Mas , written by Alex Torres and Elda Arias, performed by Alex Torres and his Latin Orchestra
  • Move On , written and performed by Pink Skull
  • Race to Erase and No Fate Awaits Me , written and performed by Son Lux with Faux Fix

reception

criticism

The German-language critics particularly praised the portrayal of Chastain and McAvoy, and it was also praised that the film didn't seem cheesy, but rather bitter-sweet.

Cinefacts was of the opinion "because the inner workings of the characters [...] are only being revealed slowly, the emotional tension of the story takes a bumpy course" and drew the conclusion: "The restrained drama 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' shows how love of a couple is about to break apart after a stroke of fate. Their loneliness, however, envelops the characters in a mysterious aura that is only moderately exciting. "

In the Frankfurter Allgemeine , Andreas Kilb pointed out that the Them version once consisted of two films and that the merging of these two parts was a compromise, whatever you can see in the film. Kilb spoke of a "blackmailed association" by the rental company and continued: "And in this blackmailed association the aesthetic appeal of his project has vanished into thin air. 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' is still a sympathetic, but unfortunately no longer a clear and true film. Isabelle Huppert, who lets the weariness of her figure swing through the images with the precision of a metronome, cannot change anything. "

David Kleingers of Spiegel Online , however, saw things differently and wrote that the version now shown in the cinema is "in no way a compromise owed to commercial considerations". “On the contrary: Even without knowing the experimental genesis of the film triptych, it is convincing as an independent, extraordinary drama.” For him, the film presented itself as “a touching story of loss and closeness with wonderful actors”. He decided it was "One of the most beautiful films of the year about love".

Susan Vahabzadeh from Süddeutsche was of the opinion that director Ned Benson showed in his debut film "in a convincing way [...] people who communicate too much between the lines".

At Cinema one could read: “Cinema couldn't be more honest, sadder and more touching.” Conclusion: “The true, carefully staged portrait of a damaged couple.”

Awards

Won:

  • Critics 'Choice MVP Award at the 2015 Critics' Choice Movie Awards to Jessica Chastain for her performance in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
  • Ischia Actress Award at the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival 2015 for Jessica Chastain

Nominations:

  • Cannes Film Festival 2014 : Ned Benson in the Golden Camera category and for the Certain Regard Award
  • BET Awards 2015: Viola Davis in the category "Best Actress"
  • Black Reel Awards 2015: Viola Davis in the category "Best Supporting Actress"
  • Central Ohio Film Critics Association 2015: Jessica Chastain for the COFCA Award in the category "Actress of the Year"
  • Image Awards 2015: Viola Davis for the Image Award in the category: "Outstanding Actress"
  • International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) 2015: Son Lux (No Fate Awaits Me - 4th place) for INOCA in the category "Best Original Song"
  • Prism Awards 2015: Prism Award in the category "Best Feature Film"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 140 K).
  2. ↑ The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Detailed background on the different versions on Deadline.com (English)
  3. ↑ The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them at thedisem2014l.tumblr.com (English). Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ The Disappearance of the Eleanor Rigby DVD (cover picture: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain) / trailer
  5. ↑ The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and numerous other reviews on the Film-Zeit page @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.film-zeit.de
  7. ↑ The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Moving and modernly told story of a New York couple who, after a tragedy, are left with the rubble of their relationship. at kino.de. Retrieved August 31, 2016.
  8. ↑ Andreas Kilb: Two who miss each other in slow motion In: Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 25, 2014. Accessed on August 31, 2016.
  9. ↑ "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby": About Finding and Losing Love In: Spiegel Online, November 26, 2014. Retrieved on August 31, 2016.
  10. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Silence with words In: Süddeutsche, November 26, 2014. Accessed August 31, 2016.
  11. ↑ The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby - Jessica Chastain shines in the role of a woman who is thrown off track by the loss of her son at cinema.de (with video and 12 pictures of the film)