The Time Traveler's Wife (film)

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Movie
German title The wife of the time traveler
Original title The Time Traveler's Wife
The time traveler's wife.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert Schwentke
script Jeremy Leven ,
Bruce Joel Rubin ,
Audrey Niffenegger
production Kristin Hahn ,
Nick Wechsler ,
Dede Gardner
music Mychael Danna
camera Florian Ballhaus
cut Thom Noble
occupation

The wife of the time traveler (original title: The Time Traveler's Wife ) is a 2009 by the German director Robert Schwentke staged, American romantic drama film with science fiction -Background. It is based on the published 2003 eponymous best-selling novel of the American author Audrey Niffenegger .

action

The plot of the film adaptation, which is true to the work, coincides with the description of the plot in the novel The Time Traveler's Wife , apart from minor deviations .

background

Brad Pitt's production company Plan B Entertainment secured the film rights to Audrey Niffenegger's novel even before the novel was published . In September 2003, Jeremy Leven was initially commissioned to write a script, which was revised in 2007 by Bruce Joel Rubin. Negotiations with directors Steven Spielberg , Gus Van Sant and David Fincher were unsuccessful before Robert Schwentke took over the direction . Filming took place from September to November 2007 in Toronto , Hamilton and Chicago . The original premiere date of the film had to be postponed from 2008 to 2009 due to seasonal re-shooting. For the re-shoots, you also had to wait for Eric Bana's chest hair to grow back, because the actor had to shave it off for the filming of Star Trek .

On August 14, 2009 the film was released by Warner Brothers in the USA, Canada and Great Britain, and in Germany and Austria on September 17 and 18, 2009 respectively. The budget of the film is estimated at 39 million US dollars . its US revenue to 63.4 million, of which 18.6 million on the opening weekend alone.

In Brazil, the film was falsely promoted as Brad Pitt's film by the internet distributors.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack composed by Mychael Danna , consisting of 23 music tracks, was released on September 25, 2009 by Decca Records .

1. It's a ros Mychael Danna 0:51
2. I'm You Henry Mychael Danna 2:30
3. Meadow Mychael Danna 3:19
4th How does it feel? Mychael Danna 1:59
5. Diary Mychael Danna 1:21
6th Train Mychael Danna 1:43
7th I Don't Feel Alone Anymore Mychael Danna 2:22
8th. Love Will Tear Us Apart Broken Social Scene 4:44
9. Married To Me Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:04
10. Home Mychael Danna 1:36
11. Do you know when? Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:09
12. Testing Mychael Danna 1:04
13. Alba Mychael Danna 2:33
14th I never had a choice Mychael Danna 2:58
15th Who Would Want That? Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:29
16. I Left Him Sleeping Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:30
17th It's a girl Mychael Danna 2:57
18th Five years Hollywood Studio Symphony 2:03
19th Try to stay Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:40
20th New Year's Eve Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:55
21st No Tracks In The Snow Hollywood Studio Symphony 1:48
22nd See you again Mychael Danna 5:41
23. Broken Lifehouse 4:46

Reviews

The time traveler's wife received mostly negative to mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes counted a mere 59 positive (37%) of 158 reviews and sums up the consensus of the critics as follows: “Although fans of the novel might like 'The Time Traveler's Wife', the constructed plot and illogical narrative limit the effectiveness of the Films. ”The website Metacritic calculated an average rating of 47/100.

The German reviews were also mostly negative:

“What could be a sensitive story about time gnawing at love turns into a tough, constructed-looking drama due to an overly complex narrative structure, which despite its intricacies is largely predictable and hardly allows emotions to arise,” writes the lexicon of international films .

Christian Horn von Filmstarts judges that the film is “an epic cinematic parable about the power of love. Unfortunately, the exciting thing is starting position too often slides into conventional Kitsch starting to be able to then pull out unscathed from the affair at the end. " The wife of the time traveler THAT CONDITION " patch and artificial [...] than the movie does well. " Ghost - Message from Sam , also penned by Bruce Joel Rubin , emphasizes the fantasy aspect more clearly, which makes him the better of the two films. Horn sums up: "Jump in time instead of fling [...], one could easily have drawn more fascination from the topic."

The editorial staff of Cinema is of the opinion that the film "looks like a distant relative of the Brad Pitt tear-puller" The Strange Case of Benjamin Button ", but is much weaker and uninspired" . The underlying "love novel by Audrey Niffenegger" is "unrestrained kitsch" by Schwentke . The result is a "confusing and nested love story with obvious logical holes and completely under-challenged leading actors" .

Awards

At the 2010 Saturn Awards , the film was nominated for Best Fantasy Film, while Brooklynn Proulx received a nomination for Best Young Actress. That same year, Alex Ferris was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Young Artist Awards .

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Time Traveler's Wife . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 341 K).
  2. ↑ a b c d Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  6. ^ [1] , Rotten Tomatoes
  7. ↑ [2] , metacritic
  8. ↑ The Time Traveler's Wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ^ Film review , film starts , Christian Horn
  10. ^ Film review , Cinema
  11. ↑ a b Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database