Detachment (2011)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Detachment |
| Original title | Detachment |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tony Kaye |
| script | Carl Lund |
| production |
Austin Stark , Greg Shapiro , Chris Papavasiliou , Carl Lund , Benji Kohn , Bingo Gubelmann |
| music | The Newton Brothers |
| camera | Tony Kaye |
| cut |
Barry Alexander Brown Geoffrey Richman |
| occupation | |
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Detachment is a film drama from 2011 that shows the everyday life of students and teachers at a school from the perspective of a substitute teacher over a period of three weeks.
action
Henry Barthes has another job again. He moves restlessly from school to school, sometimes teaching here, sometimes there and so doesn't have to get involved in any human ties. But this time he cannot observe everything from an unemotional and silent point, because he finds himself in the midst of burned out teachers who are trying to convey something to their students. But these show no interest.
As if that weren't enough, Henry also has to take care of his grandfather, who has dementia, and he always confronts him with the past. Henry doesn't want to hear about it because they both have very different memories of it. These are made clear by flashbacks that run through the film.
One day he meets the underage prostitute Erica. He takes her with him out of a sense of duty and lets her stay with him temporarily. Little by little, the two of them trust each other and Erica falls in love with him. Henry's colleague, Mrs. Madison, would also like to be closer to him than he would allow.
In the following time, Henry wins the trust and respect of his students by teaching them values that are not on the curriculum and by taking his students seriously. This particularly impresses his student Meredith, who is not really noticed by either her classmates or her parents. Henry gives her that feeling and encourages her in her abilities. Meredith falls in love with him too. When he becomes aware of her feelings, however, he rejects her.
A short time later, Henry's grandfather dies and he feels empty and torn, as he has in his whole life. Overrun by the events, he makes it clear to Erica that she can no longer live on the street, but also no longer with him. Because he knows that he cannot give her what she needs: a family. He has two youth workers pick her up.
Henry Barthes' last day at school has come. After a meeting between the teachers and the headmistress, students in the school yard offer home-made baked goods. Meredith also has a booth. Henry walks up to her and apologizes to her for hurting her. However, Meredith interrupts him and says goodbye to him. After eating a specially baked muffin, she collapses dead. She was fed up with life.
Shaken by this event, Henry leaves school and visits Erica in the supervised facility, where she is fine. You can now start a new life.
At the end, Henry sits in front of his students and talks about the weight that lies on you from time to time. This is emphasized by the fact that he reads from The Fall of the House Usher while the camera pans through the abandoned and devastated school.
Publication dates
The film premiered on April 25, 2011 at the Tribeca Film Festival . On September 29, 2011 he was seen for the first time in Germany at the 19th Hamburg Film Festival . It was shown at other film festivals and received awards.
Detachment was seen in the United States from March 16, 2012. The cinema release in Germany was on April 11, 2013.
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 30, 2013.
criticism
Till Kadritzke from critic.de considers detachment formally as well as content to be completely overloaded: “At most Adrien Brody can give the whole thing a little coherence”.
Felicitas Kleiner says in Filmdienst that the film is “a bitter, exquisitely played, unusual school drama in terms of both form and content” that “expands the plot to include animated scenes, interviews and excursions to secondary characters”. Education acts "as a fragile bearer of hope in a world that threatens to lose humanism".
production
The film was shot at Mineola Middle School on Long Island .
Web links
- Detachment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for detachment . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; accessed on December 29, 2017).
- ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt1683526/releaseinfo#akas . Publication dates IMDb.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683526/awards . Nominations and Awards IMDb.
- ^ Film review at critic.de , accessed on March 18, 2012
- ↑ Film review in Filmdienst 2013/17