Your way
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Your way |
| Original title | The Way |
| Country of production |
United States of Spain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Emilio Estevez |
| script | Emilio Estevez |
| production |
David Alexanian Emilio Estevez; Icon Entertainment Int. , Filmax Entertainment and Elixir Films |
| music | Tyler Bates |
| camera | Juan Miguel Azpiroz |
| cut | Raúl Dávalos |
| occupation | |
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Dein Weg (Original title: The Way ) is an American - Spanish drama film directed by Emilio Estevez from 2010 .
The film is a collaboration between Martin Sheen in the lead role, and his son, the director Emilio Estevez, in honor of the passing through northern Spain Camino de Santiago Camino Francés ( span. Camino de Santiago ) and promote the traditional pilgrimage . Estevez was inspired by Jack Hitt's Off the Road. A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain (2005).
action
Thomas "Tom" Avery is a successful American ophthalmologist . His grown son Daniel dropped out of his PhD and traveled to France to walk the Camino de Santiago and - unlike his father - to see more of the world. While playing golf with friends, Tom receives the news that Daniel had already died on the first day of his journey in the Pyrenees during bad weather. Tom travels to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to pick up Daniel's body and bring it home. After a few talks, however, he decides, out of mourning and in honor of his dead son, to take the old, approximately 800-kilometer path towards Santiago de Compostela . On the way there he wants to scatter Daniel's ashes along the way.
At first alone, Tom meets other pilgrims on the way, all of whom are looking for more meaning in their lives. With three of them he reluctantly forms a community at first: Joost is an overweight Dutchman who wants to take the Camino to lose weight. He's a friendly, extroverted person who talks too much for Tom's liking. Next, one evening Tom meets the Canadian Sarah, who is fleeing from her abusive husband. The three of them meet another hiker, Jack, an Irish travel writer. On the way they meet other pilgrims again and again, including two French people, a young Italian and the elderly priest Father Jack from New York City .
On the whole way Tom has short visions of Daniel, who appears to him sitting by the roadside or among people and usually smiles briefly. Arrived in Santiago de Compostela, the four decide to cover another stretch of the way to the sea to Muxía . There Tom scattered the remaining ashes of Daniel. In the last scene you can see Tom with Daniel's backpack taking another trip through Marrakech .
occupation
Originally, Michael Douglas and Mel Gibson were suggested for the lead role, but in the end Estevez wrote the lead role specifically for his father.
In addition to the main characters, only real pilgrims from all over the world can be seen in the film. In one scene a group of real Roma from Burgos plays .
criticism
The lexicon of international films saw “a very attractive examination of the Way of St. James, which reflects the diversity and ambivalences of modern pilgrims. Beyond the usual "wellness" piety, the film takes you on an outwardly calm, but inner-tense journey that is undertaken by decidedly non-religious figures, but nevertheless touches upon spiritual dimensions ”.
Neil Genzlinger praised Martin Sheen as a very convincing actor and his son Emilio Estevez as a sensitive director in the New York Times . He concludes with the judgment that the beauty of the film actually lies in the fact that Estevez does not explicitly portray what the four fine actors find in their roles, apart from friendship. He would let them convey that personal changes are not announced with fanfare.
For the portal film-rezensions.de “Dein Weg” is a “small and quiet film about people and their stories” that is “pleasantly authentic” and “life-affirming”.
Robert Zollitsch - chairman of the German Bishops' Conference from 2008 to 2014 - found words of praise for the film after the press screening: "... a film that is worth seeing - not just for Christians, but for all people who are on the go and looking." Detlef Lienau analyzes the film religiously as a path through death. The rituals of pilgrimage enable the father to identify with the son's concept of life.
Others
Estevez dedicated this film to his grandfather, Francisco Estevez (1898–1974).
Web links
- Your path in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- PDF working material for DVD your way
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for your way . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 935 K).
- ↑ Dr. Manfred Karsch in your way - working aid of the Katholisches Filmwerk GmbH
- ↑ Your way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Neil Genzlinger: Movie Review 'The Way' (2010): A Trek From Loss and Grief to a Life Given Greater Meaning ; Review of the film in The New York Times, October 7, 2011, p. C8
- ↑ Your way to film-rezensions.de
- ↑ Robert Zollitsch at the press screening of the film ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2010 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.
- ↑ Detlef Lienau: Urne in a backpack, in: Pastoraltheologie 103 (2014/9), 392-398
- ↑ First image in the credits of the film
