Don't come knocking
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Don't come knocking |
| Original title | Don't come knocking |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wim Wenders |
| script |
Sam Shepard , Wim Wenders |
| production |
Karsten Brünig , In-Ah Lee , Peter Schwartzkopff |
| music | T-bone Burnett |
| camera | Franz Lustig |
| cut |
Peter Przygodda , Oli Weiss |
| occupation | |
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Don't Come Knocking is a feature film by Wim Wenders from 2005 . It is the second collaboration between Wenders and Sam Shepard . Shepard had already written the script near Paris, Texas . In Do not Come Knocking Shepard also took over the lead role.
action
Howard Spence is an aging western star in Hollywood. Its heyday is long gone. He only makes headlines with stories of drugs, alcohol and women. While filming a western , he sits down on his film horse and escapes from the location. After swapping his costume for traditional clothing and giving away his horse, he travels to his mother's in Elko , Nevada for the first time in 30 years . At the same time, there is excitement in the film crew, as a high insurance sum would be due if the film was abandoned. The insurance company sets Sutter to track down Howard and bring him back to the set.
Howard learns from his mother that he has a grown son. Howard then travels to Montana , where he met the waitress Doreen decades ago while working on a film. He suspects that she is his son's mother. At the same time, the young Sky is also going to the small town of Montana. Her mother had just died and is now accompanying her in an urn. When she sees Howard, she knows that Howard is her father, and Howard discovers that he has lived without a family for decades and is now suddenly the father of two children. The first encounter with his son Earl is more complicated than he thought. Only Sky sees something positive in her father's appearance. Insurance detective Sutter ends the family reunification and brings Howard handcuffed back to the set. Sky can persuade her half-brother Earl to join the father.
Reviews
“Wenders tells the story of an aging western star [...] in a lively way. With partly opulent settings of landscapes and streets that are reminiscent of Edward Hopper's painting, Wenders investigates the myth of the lonely western hero […]. Don't Come Knocking tells in a laconic and not at all cheesy way what happens when one of these pithy Gary Coopers retraces his tracks and becomes more and more meek in the course of events . This is mainly due to the great actors, especially Sam Shepard. "
“There are wonderful images of the desert or small-town America here. It is rich colors with which Wenders draws his pictures. But it's not photography that makes this film live. It is actually the plot that makes this film fascinating [...]. The characters Spence and Doreen, the actors Shepard and Lange, who are also married in real life, engage in a passionate, fascinating and entertaining duel about what really matters in their lives. "
“A work in which the filmmaker is once again all about observing, acting out and savoring individual scenes. And let himself be inspired by the music, the actors and even the scenery - the disused mining town of Butte in Montana. An almost comedy that even knows how to combine a cautious three-quarter happy ending with a typically mendacious Hollywood finale. "
Awards
- 2005: European film award for best camera
Recording with the audience
Despite the mostly positive reviews, the film was a failure at the box office. In Germany it was only seen by 191,000 viewers, in the United States it played - with a budget of around 11 million US dollars - as much as 440,000 dollars.
Web links
- Do not Come Knocking in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Don't Come Knocking at filmportal.de
- Don`t come knocking on wimwendersstiftung.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Don't Come Knocking . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 267 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Don't Come Knocking . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Der Spiegel ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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. on film-zeit.de, May 20, 2005.
- ↑ Florian Güßgen: Wim Wenders parodies the Western . In: Der Stern , August 24, 2005.
- ↑ The Asphalt Cowboy . In: Die Welt , August 24, 2005.
