The Goldfinch (film)

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Movie
German title The goldfinch
Original title The Goldfinch
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 150 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Crowley
script Peter Straughan
production Nina Jacobson ,
Brad Simpson
music Trevor Gureckis
camera Roger Deakins
cut Kelley Dixon
occupation
synchronization

The goldfinch (AKA The Goldfinch ) is a film drama by John Crowley , which in September 2019 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival , American US and on 13 September 2019 on 26 September 2019 was premiered in German cinemas . The film is based on a novel of the same name by the American writer Donna Tartt from 2013.

action

The plot takes place in parallel on several time levels. Here it is sorted according to chronology.

13-year-old Theodore Decker's mother is killed in a bomb attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City . However, since Theo is in a different exhibition room, he survived the explosion. At the request of an older man, Welton "Welty" Blackwell, Theo rescued the painting The Goldfinch from the rubble and let it go. The painting is now considered lost. Blackwell also entrusts him with his carnelian-studded ring and gives him the name of his antique shop.

Since Theo has no relatives in town, he is housed with the family of his friend Andy, the Barbours. Some time later he made contact with James Hobart, the business partner of the late Welton Blackwell, with whom Hobart had operated an antique workshop and trade. He now often stays with Hobart (called "Hobie"), whom he regards as a fatherly friend and from whom he learns the basics of furniture restoration. At Hobie he meets Pippa again, who had also survived the attack and who is now only slowly recovering from the serious injuries. Theo falls in love with Pippa, who is later taken in by an aunt who has custody.

The situation changes abruptly when his father, Larry Decker, answers. He takes Theo to Las Vegas , where he lives with his girlfriend Xandra. There Theo met Boris Pavlikovsky, a Ukrainian of the same age, with whom he became a deep friend.

After his father is killed in a car accident, Theo decides to flee Las Vegas so as not to come into government custody. Together with Boris, he steals from Xandra and drives to New York, where Hobie takes him in. Theo kept the painting, which Theo had tightly packed for himself during his time in Las Vegas, in a rental locker in a warehouse to prevent accidental discovery.

A few years later, Theo is seen as a young adult who has meanwhile become Hobie's business partner and, as a seller, was able to bring the ruined antique shop to new success. This was only possible because Theo was able to sell a whole range of Hobie's skilfully restored furniture as valuable originals to unsuspecting nouveau riche. During this time Theo comes into contact with the Barbours again. He learns that his school friend Andy and his father died in a sailing accident. Theo befriends Kitsey Barbour. After a while, both of them make wedding plans.

Theo surprisingly meets Boris in New York, who is now very successful in criminal business. Their friendship seems to revive immediately, but is weighed down by Boris' confession, who admits that he had discovered the painting in Las Vegas and exchanged it for a dummy. In the course of a larger drug deal, the painting used as a deposit was lost.

To get the painting back, they both fly to Amsterdam to follow up a lead there. The attempt to get the painting back fails: Theo shoots a criminal and the painting is stolen again. Theo then goes to his hotel room and tries to commit suicide. But he is saved in time by Boris. Boris tells him that a friend gave the police a tip to find the painting. After a raid in Frankfurt am Main , the police were able to secure the painting along with other lost and stolen works of art.

production

Literary template

In The goldfinch is the last date translated into German novel by Donna Tartt

The film is based on the award-winning novel Der Distelfink (original title The Goldfinch ) by US writer Donna Tartt from 2013. The book was published in March 2014 by Goldmann Verlag in a German translation by Rainer Schmidt. 2014, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the field Fiction Award and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction nominee. The novel was on the New York Times bestseller list for 30 weeks and sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone by June 2014. The film rights were purchased from Warner Bros. acquired.

In the novel, the 13-year-old first-person narrator Theodore Decker survives a bomb attack while visiting the New York Metropolitan Museum , but his mother is killed. Badly injured, Theo stood by the dying Welton Blackwell, was finally able to free himself from the devastated museum rooms and, at Blackwell's insistence, let the painting The Goldfinch by the Dutch painter and Rembrandt student Carel Fabritius go with him in a plastic bag, which the art world believed had been destroyed . From then on, the painting accompanies him through the plot of the novel. Blackwell also entrusted him with his carnelian ring and gave him the name of his company in Greenwich Village . After the incident, Theo first lived with some wealthy family friends in New York before he later traveled to Las Vegas and Amsterdam, among others. The painting is the only constant on the journey and also the only connection he still has to his deceased mother and runs like a red thread through the plot.

Staff and cast

Sarah Paulson at the premiere for the film in Toronto

Warner Bros. has teamed up with Amazon to adapt the complex story as a film that will first run in theaters and later on the online mail order company's streaming service. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson act as producers .

Directed by John Crowley , while Peter Straughan adapted Tartt's novel for the film. Crowley most recently appeared as the director of the Colm Tóibín film adaptation Brooklyn - A Love Between Two Worlds . The soundtrack was composed by Trevor Gureckis , who started work in autumn 2018.

Ansel Elgort starred Theodore "Theo" Decker as an adolescent, while Oakes Fegley played him as a child. Nicole Kidman plays Mrs. Barbour, the seemingly cool but friendly and wealthy foster mother of Platt, Kitsey and Andy, who takes in the orphaned Theo. Finn Wolfhard plays the young Boris, the son of a Ukrainian emigrant who becomes Theo's close friend and who is played as an adult by Aneurin Barnard . Ashleigh Cummings can be seen in the role of Theo's great love Pippa, played by Aimee Laurence as a young girl. Jeffrey Wright plays her legal guardian, Hobie, who also becomes Theo's mentor. Luke Wilson plays Theo's father, Larry Decker, a failed actor turned gambler and alcoholic. Sarah Paulson plays his girlfriend Xandra.

Filming and publishing

Filming began on January 23, 2018 in New York and took place here on Park Avenue, among other places. In February and March 2018, the film was shot in Westchester County , southeast New York, at Yonkers Stage and in Rye, near Westchester Avenue. Further recordings were made in Albuquerque and Amsterdam. Roger Deakins acted as cameraman .

A first trailer was presented at the end of May 2019. The film was shown for the first time on September 8, 2019 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was released in US cinemas on September 13, 2019. It started on September 26, 2019 in Germany and was due to hit Swiss cinemas on October 10, 2019 and Austrian cinemas on October 11, 2019.

reception

Age rating

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over. In Germany it was approved by the FSK from the age of 12.

Reviews

Overall, the film received rather negative reviews.

The film critic Antje Wessels writes that although there is nothing wrong with the first half of Der Distelfink , the emotional spark only leaps over very slowly, and in the second half the story is also much less interesting due to its location in the far less interesting Here and now you can feel your breath running out. Even if the script by screenwriter Peter Straughan takes enough time for every single station in Theo's life, the emotional punch that is actually so necessary does not materialize, which means that the viewer only remains a sober viewer of the events until the end, according to Wessels, even if Nicole Kidman is self-sacrificing care for their son's best friend or handing him over to the violent father. The director John Crowley does not succeed in identifying something like an emotional core among the excellently composed images by cameraman Roger Deakins , even if it is not so easy to determine why this is actually because, after all, Oakes Fegley is a formidable achievement as of fate surrendered a battered teenager.

Peter Osteried from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater thinks that everything goes hand in hand in film: “A precisely told, character-rich story, music that caresses the audience, an imposing staging, images that are burned into memory, and an ensemble made up of the young actors around newcomer Oakes Fegley to the established mimes such as Ansel Elgort and Jeffrey Wright , could not be more exquisite. In the end there is a film that you will never forget. "

Lida Bach writes on filmrezension.de that “the pompous production that evokes the value of authenticity itself becomes a poor copy of a prestigious original”. "John Crowley's overlong art theft crime novels protect neither the fascination of the cover picture, which is inextricably linked with its history, nor the quality of Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning original from exhausting insignificance." Without knowing the novel, the film's plot is hardly understandable.

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Katrin Fröhlich on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH, Berlin.

actor German dubbing voice role
Ansel Elgort David Turba Theodore Decker
Finn Wolfhard Oliver Szerkus Boris (young)
Nicole Kidman Petra Barthel Mrs. Barbour
Ashleigh Cummings Lea Kalbhenn Pippa
Willa Fitzgerald Josephine Schmidt Kitsey Barbour (older)
Luke small tank Roman Wolko Platt Barbour
Colin Shea Schirrmacher Nikita Steinert Toddy Barbour (Young)
Sarah Paulson Meike Finck Xandra

Web links

Commons : The Goldfinch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Distelfink . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 192456 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ 2014 Winners and Finalists. In: pulitzer.org. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
  3. ^ "The Goldfinch" filming in Albuquerque this month. In: ruidosonews.com, April 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ Husna Haq: Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' is the newest bestseller to weather backlash. In: csmonitor.com, June 24, 2014.
  5. ^ Claire Fallon, Warner Brothers Acquires Movie Rights To Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch'. In: huffingtonpost.com, July 29, 2014.
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  7. ↑ Larry Bartleet: Art theft, intoxication and a Pulitzer: what you need to know about Finn Wolfhard's next film, The Goldfinch. In: nme.com, January 24, 2018.
  8. ↑ Björn Becher: Roman masterpiece "The Distelfink": Ansel Elgort as the main actor. In: filmstarts.de, October 4, 2017.
  9. ^ Justin Kroll: John Crowley Eyed to Direct Adaptation of 'The Goldfinch'. In: Variety, July 20, 2016.
  10. ↑ Trevor Gurecki's Scoring John Crowley's the Goldfinch filmmusicreporter.com, November 27, 2018
  11. ^ Warner Bros. and Amazon Studios Start Filming The Goldfinch. In: comingsoon.net, January 23, 2018.
  12. ^ Robbie Whiteman: Rolling back the years! Nicole Kidman looks years younger than 50 on The Goldfinch set after playing an older version of her character. In: dailymail.co.uk, March 12, 2018.
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  14. ^ Adrian Gomez: 'The Goldfinch' to be filmed in Albuquerque. In: abqjournal.com, April 2, 2019.
  15. ↑ Zack Sharf: Roger Deakins is Filming 'The Goldfinch' Next, But Might Not Reunite With Denis Villeneuve For 'Dune'. In: indiewire.com, October 4, 2017.
  16. ^ Adrian Pennington: A way of seeing: In conversation with Roger Deakins. In: ibc.org, May 16, 2018.
  17. ↑ a b Based on the bestseller: First trailer for “The Goldfinch” with Ansel Elgort and Nicole Kidman. In: outnow.ch, May 30, 2019.
  18. ↑ Kate Erbland: TIFF Reveals First Slate of 2019 Films, Including 'Joker', 'Uncut Gems', 'Knives Out', and More. In: indiewire.com. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
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