Don't worry, you can't run away

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Movie
German title Don't worry, you can't run away
Original title Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gus Van Sant
script Gus Van Sant
production Charles-Marie Anthonioz ,
Mourad Belkeddar ,
Steve Golin ,
Nicolas Lhermitte
music Danny Elfman
camera Christopher Blauvelt
cut David Marks ,
Gus Van Sant
occupation

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (original title Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot , English for “Don't worry, he won't get far on foot”) is an American biopic by Gus Van Sant , which was shown for the first time on January 19, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on August 16, 2018. It is based on the autobiography of the cartoonist John Callahan .

action

21-year-old John came to Los Angeles from Oregon , where he works as a building painter. He has a drinking problem. His equally alcoholic friend Dexter persuades him to go on a nightly drinking tour across town. While drunk, John fell asleep in the passenger seat when Dexter caused a serious car accident with his VW Beetle . While Dexter is only slightly injured, John is thrown out of the car and is paraplegic .

During rehab in the hospital, John meets the attractive Swede Annu. After his recovery, he has a recurring hallucination about acrobats in the park. John joins Alcoholics Anonymous and is accepted into the unconventional support group of the gay and wealthy hippie Donnie. He calls his pupils “piglets” and trusts in Laozi , God and Chucky . Through the group, John meets the heart-sick, overweight Reba, the divorced lady Corky, a gay street poet and the German Hans.

Through the regular meetings, John gradually manages to break away from his self-pity and his excuses. At the same time he is looking for his birth mother, since he was adopted as a child. According to the only information he has, she is Irish-American, red-haired and used to be a teacher. When John is locked in at home by his caretaker and cannot get alcohol, his mother appears to him in a dream. She advises him not to touch alcohol anymore.

With that dream, John successfully completes the Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Step Program . By chance he meets Annu again, with whom he begins a love affair, and processes his weird joke with awkwardly drawn cartoon characters. The initial publication in a university newspaper in Oregon was followed by others in well-known American daily and weekly newspapers, which also brought him criticism. Due to the financial sideline, the care that John considers a seedy person threatens to stop the payments.

During the group sessions, John manages to come to terms with his difficult childhood, and he begins to personally forgive his fellow human beings, including his parents, his social worker, the accident driver Dexter and, most recently, his unknown mother. While Donnie becomes ill with AIDS , John also takes the final step and speaks about his alcohol addiction in front of an audience. He is at peace with himself.

production

The biographical drama is based on the memoirs of cartoonist John Callahan . He was known to deal with disabilities and physical inadequacies in his work, often in a macabre way, but gays, alcoholics, Catholics and beggars were also the target of his ridicule. Callahan had been paralyzed since a car accident in 1972 when he was 21 years old and could only move his arms slightly. Hence the rough lines of his caricatures. Some of his books have been published in German, including his autobiography Don't worry, run away does not go , on which the film is based.

Gus Van Sant and Joaquin Phoenix at the presentation of the film as part of the 68th Berlinale

Directed by Gus Van Sant , who also adapted Callahan's memoir for the film. The director has already shown his fondness for extraordinary fates in his works in the past. He had in Milk the gay activist Harvey Milk and Last Days the musician Kurt Cobain portrayed, and Good Will Hunting , a coming-of-age story with Matt Damon and Robin Williams created. It was the latter who suggested that Van Sant film Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot . Williams called the accident victim the "funniest man on four wheels" and secured the rights to Callahan's autobiography before he died in 2010. The score was composed by Danny Elfman . The soundtrack to the film, which includes Elfman's music, the song Texas When You Go by John Callahan and a piece by Alex Somers and a total of 23 pieces of music, was released by Sony Classical on July 13, 2018.

The film premiered on January 19, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . From February 20, 2018, Van Sant's directorial work was shown in the competition at the 68th Berlinale and also as part of the Teddy Awards , a separate competition. In June 2018 the film was shown at the Sydney Film Festival . It was shown as a graduation film at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival . A theatrical release in the USA took place on July 13, 2018, in Germany on August 16, 2018.

reception

Reviews

The film has so far won over 76 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .

Peter Debruge from Variety says that the avant-garde Gus Van Sant is once again operating in the ultra-conventional Lasse-Hallström mode in his film and has created a pretty fairy tale. However, the feel-good script lacks bite. Debruge explains that for whatever reason, Van Sant dealt with withdrawal in John Callahan's life story and structured the film around the twelve-step program that made him abstain. The non-linearly structured film jumps back and forth in time, which brings a certain unpredictability to it.

The Guardian's Jordan Hoffman says that while there are many great moments in the movie, they pop out in the midst of a jumble of strangely flat scenes. The film doesn't feel like the work of a great master, Hoffman continues: "It's a contradicting brew that just doesn't fit right."

Philipp Bühler of the Berliner Zeitung says about Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Callahan that it is heartbreaking to watch him behead bottle after bottle with his arms and teeth. It is with silly joy that you watch the paralyzed man whiz along on his new electric scooter as if he wanted to recreate his accident, Buhler continued: "No question, the character actor Phoenix shows everything he can here."

Ula Brunner from RBB 24 thinks it is liberating how frankly and funny Van Sant deals with the difficulties that his protagonist's severe disability brings with it without exposing him to ridicule. Brunner sums up: “A loving artist biography, a melancholy, enjoyable study of survival. Worth seeing!"

Martin Schwickert says in the Augsburger Allgemeine that van Sant swings back and forth between alcoholic excesses and a gradual mental healing process with a loosely knitted flashback dramaturgy. Schwickert describes the film as a bright, feather-light tragic comedy, which one could wish for a bit more of the sarcasm that characterize Callahan's cartoons.

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 2018

Web links

Commons : Don't worry, you can't run away  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Don't Worry, you can't run away . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 179953 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Isabella Scholda: Berlinale 2018: "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot" In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c d Philipp Bühler: Gus van Sant in the Berlinale competition: Consoling Soul Cinema with Joaquin Phoenix In: Berliner Zeitung, February 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Ula Brunner: Film review "Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot" - portrait of an unusual survivor In: rbb24.de, February 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Danny Elfman Scoring Gus Van Sant's 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot' In: filmmusicreporter.com, August 1, 2017.
  6. ↑ 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot' Soundtrack Details In: filmmusicreporter.com, 10: April 2018.
  7. ↑ 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films Announced In: sundance.org, November 29, 2017.
  8. ↑ Program of the Sundance Film Festival 2018 In: sundance.org. Retrieved January 13, 2018 (PDF; 258 KB)
  9. ↑ Press releases competition 68th Berlinale ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de 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. In: berlinale.de, January 22, 2018.
  10. ↑ Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot In: teddyaward.tv. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  11. ↑ Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot. In: sff.org.au. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ https://www.backstage.com/news/awards-season/seattle-intl-film-festival-2018-rewards-eighth-grade-ethan-hawke/
  13. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  14. ↑ Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved February 28, 2020. Note: The Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes shows what percentage of the registered critics gave the film a positive rating.
  15. ↑ Peter Debruge: 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot' Review In: Variety, January 19, 2018.
  16. ↑ Jordan Hoffman, 'Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot' Review In: The Guardian, January 19, 2018.
  17. ↑ https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/Auf-dem-iPhone-gefilmt-und-auf-der-Berlinale-gezil-id44287426.html