E for ecstasy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | E for ecstasy |
| Original title | Loved up |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Cattaneo |
| script | Ol Parker |
| production | Elinor Day |
| camera | Ivan Strasburg |
| cut | David Gamble |
| occupation | |
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E for Ecstasy (Original title: Loved Up ) is a British television film from 1995 with Lena Headey in the lead role.
action
The 18-year-old Sarah meets the raver Tom as a waitress in a London fast-food restaurant . She later ends up at his house, where Tom gives her an ecstasy tablet, the effect of which confuses Sarah, who is inexperienced with drugs. They then drive around the streets of London with Tom's friends and intoxicated on drugs. A post bus driving in front of them loses a sack of letters, which Tom and the others then hand over personally to the addressee. A police patrol eventually becomes aware of them and forces them to stop. However, you will only receive a warning. Sarah spends the following night with Tom, consuming drugs and having endless sex with him. Because she likes his easy-going manner and she is tired of living with her alcoholic mother, she decides to move in with him the next morning.
When Sarah asks Tom, who works in a toy store, to take a day off for her, Tom does not accept her suggestion. He's addicted to pleasure, but takes his job very seriously. However, because Sarah is more and more late, she loses her job in the restaurant. While fooling Tom into going to work every day, she confides in his dealer, Dez. One day he takes her to see a young man from whom he gets the drugs that he sells and explains the deal to Sarah. Forgetting her younger sister Karen's birthday, Sarah takes Tom's game console and gives it to Karen when she leaves school. However, Karen is not very enthusiastic. She misses Sarah and hopes that she will return to her and her mother. One evening Sarah comes by and introduces them to Tom, who arrives with his friend Cocker and a bottle of sherry . When they leave the house, Sarah complains that Tom gave her mother alcohol.
For Dez, Sarah finally starts dealing drugs. When the first customer approaches her and gives her the money, Ray, another drug dealer, notices her. Sarah runs away and tries to hide in a container. However, Ray finds her and threatens her with violence should she sell drugs in his precinct again. Sarah finally admits to Tom that she lost her job as a waitress. As it turns out, Tom knew about it and had let her lie to him because he doesn't want to take responsibility for her and prefers to avoid problems. Sarah meets Dez again in a nightclub, who urges her into a toilet and prepares to rape her. Sarah defends herself and Tom finally intervenes. Then Sarah wants to leave the club with Tom. However, Tom wants to stay and Sarah goes back to his apartment alone. While washing up, she receives a call from her sister who asks her to come home immediately. Once there, she finds her mother disturbed in the kitchen. She has to cook the food for the father and already has bloody hands from cutting the ingredients. Sarah calls Tom and asks for help. Tom gets into a taxi to drive to her, but returns home because he forgot the address. Meanwhile, Sarah's mother has cut her wrists with a kitchen knife. An ambulance finally takes them to the hospital. When Sarah confronts Tom in a club hall about not coming when she needed his help, and he downplays the matter with a smile, Sarah decides to leave him and return home to her mother and sister. Tom asks her to stay with him, but then lets her go and dances himself into a frenzy to the music of the club.
background
The premiere of Loved Up took place on 21 August 1995 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival held where the audience to the BBC recorded film produced enthusiastic. It ran on British television on September 23, 1995 as part of the BBC series Love Bites . In Germany it was shown for the first time on March 21, 1999 by tm3 on television.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films described E for Ecstasy as a “committed film about a young woman whose life is out of balance”. TV Spielfilm found that "the tragic romance" shows that "TV productions can have their finger on the pulse". The film is "[s] o enchantingly played and bitterly realistic".
Variety's Derek Elley also believed that Lena Headey and Ian Hart played the film "captivatingly". Despite the serious subject matter, thanks to the actors, the light-footed direction and the compact script, it comes across as surprisingly light-hearted. Above all, the “photogenic Headey” leaves “a lasting impression”. Elley also praised the camera work and the editing.
Awards
The film won the BAFTA TV Award in 1996 in the Best Sound (Fiction / Entertainment) category.
Web links
- Loved Up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Loved Up on screenonline.org.uk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Derek Elley: Review: “Loved Up” . In: Variety , September 4, 1995.
- ↑ E for Ecstasy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de