One with a heart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | One with a heart |
| Original title | One from the heart |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| script | Francis Ford Coppola Armyan Bernstein Luana Anders (not mentioned) |
| production | Francis Ford Coppola Gray Frederickson Fred Roos |
| music | Tom Waits |
| camera |
Ronald Víctor García Vittorio Storaro |
| cut |
Anne Goursaud Randy Roberts Rudi Fehr |
| occupation | |
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One with a Heart is an American romance film from 1982 by Francis Ford Coppola .
action
In Las Vegas , on the eve of July 4th, the couple Frannie and Hank are celebrating their fifth anniversary. Frannie gives Hank two tickets to Bora Bora and Hank gives Frannie the key to their common house. They originally just wanted to renovate it and then sell it again, but Hank thinks it would be a good idea to live in it for a while before selling it again. Frannie doesn't like this thought at all, and she is also slightly annoyed when Hank doesn't want to eat out with her, but cooks for her at home. The upset turns into an argument and unsightly secrets emerge during the argument: Frannie kissed Hank's best friend Moe at the New Years party, while Hank cheated on her with a beautiful unknown blonde. These revelations lead to the fact that they split up in an argument and find each other with their friends Moe and Maggie.
The next day they get to know new people at about the same time: the window decorator Frannie meets the pianist and charmer Ray; Hank, on the other hand, meets the German circus artist Leila. On their evening date, Frannie walks around town in her red dress on the evening of July 4th looking for Ray. After she has found him and noticed that he works as a waiter, he risks being fired and they both dance into the night. She spends a happy time with him and later ends up at the Oriental Hotel, where she sleeps with Ray. Hank also sleeps with Leila after they both had a relaxing romantic evening in the backyard of the Taj Mahal.
However, the next morning Hank realizes that Frannie had sex that night too, so he tries to contact her. Leila realizes from Hank's jealousy that his heart doesn't belong to her, which is why she simply disappears during the search for Frannie. But that doesn't stop Hank from kidnapping Frannie from the Oriental . But while driving home, Frannie explains to him that it is finally over and prepares for the vacation with Ray in Bora Bora. After one last attempt, with Hank singing You Are My Sunshine for Frannie , she apparently flies off and Hank returns home dejected. He tries to burn the last of Frannie's memorabilia. But he can't do it because of the pain. Meanwhile, Frannie sneaks into the house and sees how Hank is crying, with which she has proof that she still means something to him, so that they can both embrace.
criticism
“Coppola's One with a Heart is an interesting production, but not a good film. [...] The bleak thing about the film is that it has no rhythm. It's a ballet of graceful and complex camera movements with overpoweringly great sets, but somehow the characters get lost in the process. "
"In One with a Heart , Coppola has combined imaginative sets and backdrops and Tom Waits blues music with a drifting overlapping plot to create a thoroughly American romance in the Las Vegas area."
“Coppola's film looks as if someone is playing" little little boy "on a gigantic synthesizer. [...] Nobody is bothered if the decor is made of cardboard as long as the feelings aren't. But this is exactly what they are made of here. [...] Songs that sometimes reach the philosophical depth of Cindy & Bert, plus dance numbers half-heartedly arranged between "West Side Story" and "Saturday Night Fever" give rise to the suspicion that Coppola wanted to make a musical. But only the camera is dancing, its actors remain as flat as the shadowy figures in video games. "
“The marriage romance, which gave the film the pretext for its monstrous effort, was drowned in the frenzy of images, the faces froze into masks, the bodies into poses of an icy ballet. The film was a vampire: it sucked all the liveliness out of its characters and spat them back onto the screen as colored shadows. "
“Using the means of melodrama and the revue film, Coppola uses a trivial love story to develop an ambiguous game with the possibilities of the cinema by playing off illusion and disillusionment against each other. At the same time, the film paints a picture of a society in which true feelings hardly exist anymore, and counteracts it with a fairytale love utopia. Dramaturgically sometimes inconsistent and sometimes even stretched, the film impresses with its optical richness and technical brilliance. "
production
The high production costs meant that Coppola had to file for bankruptcy. The production of One with a Heart was originally intended to reduce the pressure and production stress that he had previously had at Apocalypse Now . So he developed a system in which all scenes were recorded with a video camera before the film was then shot within 26 days. However, the original $ 2 million production budget became $ 25 million. The grossing results were catastrophic at $ 636,796.
Awards
- a nomination at the Academy Awards in 1983 for Best Original Score by Tom Waits
publication
The film opened in US cinemas on February 12, 1982 and only grossed just over $ 630,000. It started in Germany on October 1st, 1982. It was released on DVD in 2011 .
Trivia
Coppola's parents, Italia and Carmine Coppola, play a small supporting role. It is the first film with Rebecca De Mornay, who also plays a small supporting role.
Web links
- One from the Heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- One with a heart in the online film database
- One from the Heart at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Ebert : One From the Heart (R) on suntimes.com from January 1, 1982 (English), accessed February 18, 1982
- ↑ Janet Maslin : One From the Heart (1982) on nytimes.com, January 17, 1982, accessed February 18, 2012
- ^ No one with a heart on Spiegel Online from October 11, 1982, accessed on February 18, 2012
- ↑ One with a heart on zeit.de from February 12, 1993, accessed on February 18, 2012
- ↑ One with a heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ box office results
- ↑ One from the Heart (1982) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed February 18, 2012
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084445/