Eating Raoul
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Eating Raoul |
| Original title | Eating Raoul |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Bartel |
| script | Paul Bartel, Richard Blackburn |
| production | Richard Blackburn, Anne Kimmel |
| music | Arlon Ober |
| camera | Gary Thieltges |
| cut | Alan Toomayan |
| occupation | |
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Eating Raoul is an American black comedy directed by Paul Bartel who co- wrote the script with Richard Blackburn . The low-budget film premiered on March 24, 1982 in the United States. The first presentation in the Federal Republic of Germany took place at the Hof International Film Festival in 1982 . The film was shown for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany on December 17, 1983.
action
The recently dismissed wine salesman Paul and his wife Mary, who works as a nurse, dream of opening a restaurant. While Mary is preparing dinner for the upcoming visit to the real estate agent , Paul, unwillingly, ends up in a swingers party in a neighboring apartment . From there, in turn, a visitor sneaks into the decent couple's apartment. The returning Paul kills the sexually harassed man with a frying pan. They take the cash from the dead man and throw it into the garbage disposal .
After a loan application was rejected and Paul was caught by a fraud, it became clear how precarious their financial situation is. The pan proves its worth again with the next lascivious intruder from the apartment, so that Mary comes up with the idea of targeting “perverts”, as she calls them, with an advertisement in order to knock them down and take them out. The earnings model turns out to be more exhausting than expected, but is flourishing.
The petty criminal Raoul finds out about the couple. They accept his offer to take over the corpses and monetize them. Some time later, Paul spies on Raoul and finds that the clothes in the thrift store , the cars at the used car dealer, and the bodies in the dog food factory make more money than Raoul claims. When the couple ran their own business, a conflict broke out, which ended with a blow on Raoul's head. Since this happens three quarters of an hour before the planned contract with the broker, they unceremoniously serve the dismantled Raoul for dinner.
production
Eating Raoul was filmed in Los Angeles, California , within 22 days . Production cost was an estimated $ 350,000.
Reviews
“Malicious black comedy which, as a satire on the sex obsession of the petty bourgeoisie and the practices of capitalist profit maximization at all costs, oscillates between macabre farce and silly humor. Visually discreet, drastic in dialogue. "
"Raven black, bitter-angry and very funny!"
"It is macabre, but at the same time as conservative as the terrible couple will remain for life - and this contradiction between being and doing would have sparked completely different sparks."
Awards
Eating Raoul was nominated for the 1983 Saturn Award for best low-budget film. Mary Woronov received a Best Actress nomination for her role as Mary Bland .
Soundtrack
Arlon Ober , Los Lobos - Eating Raoul - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack . Varèse Sarabande 1982 - STV 81164
musical
Eating Raoul wasadaptedas a musical andpremieredin an off-Broadway production in 1992 at the Union Square Theater in New York City .
Web links
- Eating Raoul in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Eating Raoul at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Eating Raoul. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 18, 2015 .
- ↑ All films from the Hof Film Festival… film database. In: hofer-filmtage.de. Retrieved May 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Eating Raoul. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on May 17, 2015 ; accessed on August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Eating Raoul - A satire from the early 1980s. (No longer available online.) In: kino-zeit.de. Archived from the original on April 17, 2015 ; Retrieved May 18, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Eating Raoul - Filming Locations. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved May 18, 2015 .
- ^ Eating Raoul - Business. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved June 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Eating Raoul. In: cinema.de . Retrieved May 18, 2015 .
- ^ HS: Eating Raoul . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 1983, new film in Frankfurt.
- ↑ Arlon Ober - Eating Raoul - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. In: Discogs . Accessed August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Eating Raoul. (No longer available online.) In: Internet Off-Broadway Database. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015 ; accessed on May 18, 2015 .
