The time that we have left

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Movie
German title The time that we have left
Original title When Did You Last See Your Father?
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Anand Tucker
script David Nicholls
production Elizabeth Karlsen ,
Stephen Wolley
for Number 9 Films
music Barrington Pheloung
camera Howard Atherton
cut Trevor Waite
occupation

The Time That Left Us is a British film drama by Anand Tucker from 2007. It is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Blake Morrison .

action

The writer Blake stays with his wife in his parents' house after a long time. He was awarded a prize for his work, but received no recognition from his father Arthur. As always, he is quietly reproving and mocking the achievements of his now grown-up son. Blake suffers from his father's demeanor and would have at least wished for a “good!” From him at the award ceremony. Some time later, the father collapses while attaching a chandelier . End-stage cancer is diagnosed in the hospital . Doctors don't know how long Arthur will live, and Blake eventually moves back to his parents' house for the final weeks of his father's life.

Again and again he remembers humiliating events from his childhood and youth. If he was impressed by his father's triumphant manner as a child, his dominant and center-pressing manner soon weighed on the sensitive boy. The idea that his father could be having an affair with “Aunt” Beaty and that his cousin Josie was actually a stepsister tormented him for a long time and did not let go of him into adulthood. Other scenes of humiliation - such as during a family vacation where the shy and book-loving teenager Blake was exposed in front of the young hotel companion - mix with memories of family celebrations at which the father flirted unrestrainedly with Aunt Beaty and other women. Blake also regains consciousness in scenes in which Blake had started an affair with the housekeeper and both of them were almost caught in bed by Arthur. He wants to speak to his father, but Arthur, who is now bedridden, puts him off for another day.

A short time later, Arthur's condition has deteriorated so much that he wets himself and doesn't recognize anyone anymore. A little later he dies without a debate. Blake confesses to his wife that he feels cheated. He cannot mourn, but lives out his ever-hidden hatred of his father by having the pacemaker cut out of his chest like a trophy with him. The funeral takes place, and Blake asks Beaty to speak. He wants to know how the relationship was between her and Arthur. She admits that they both had an affair because she was unhappy in their marriage. He comforted her - she wants to keep to herself whether they slept together. However, she reveals to him that Arthur was always very proud of him, but was never able to show it. In a quiet moment, Blake remembers saying goodbye to his parents' house shortly before he started studying, and how he turned down his father's offer to drive him and instead took a taxi. He recalls the moment when they both hugged in the end and the father cried suppressed. He now confesses to his father that he misses him and begins to cry.

A little later, the family scattered Arthur's ashes on the property. Blake remembers the last time he saw his father before his father became increasingly dissimilar from the disease. It was the moment when both of them screwed the chandelier to the wall and switched it on for the first time. In the glow of the chandelier they were both happy before the father abruptly switched off the light and started the next project.

production

The film is based on the novel And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison, which appeared in 1993 and became a bestseller. The film was shot on location in London , Sussex and Derbyshire as well as at Twickenham Film Studios within seven weeks . The awards ceremony at the beginning of the film took place at the National Liberal Club in London and the car race at the Goodwood Circuit . Other scenes were taken in Petworth Park , West Wittering Beach and Brighton . Shots in and around the Morrisons' home were made in lodges in Cromford and Weston in Derbyshire.

The time that remains was premiered on July 12, 2007 at the Galway Film Festival and officially premiered on September 23, 2007 in London. The film did not appear in cinemas in Germany.

criticism

The Guardian called The Time That Left Us an “intelligent and intimate film”. The New York Times wrote that the film was not a groundbreaking work, but an intelligently played one that was spiced up with drama and passion. Colin Firth is one of the few men in whom male decency is sexy.

The film-dienst called the film a “drama about a father-son relationship and the confrontation with illness and death, played on two levels of time and carried out by convincing actors, whose staging tries too hard to reduce the bitterness of the material through music and image design to soften sweetish. "

Awards

Jim Broadbent was nominated for Best British Actor of the Year at the 2008 London Critics Circle Film Awards . The film was also nominated for a British Independent Film Award in seven categories .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the time that remains for us . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 109 V).
  2. ↑ "an intelligent and heartfelt film"; See guardian.co.uk
  3. ^ "This isn't a groundbreaking work; just a smartly played story, enlivened by drama and spiked with passion "..." Colin Firth, one of the few screen actors who make male decency seem sexy "; See nytimes.com
  4. ↑ The time that we have left. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used