One day the day will come ...
| Movie | |
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| German title | One day the day will come ... |
| Original title | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 125 minutes |
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| Director | Vincente Minnelli |
| script | Alan Jay Lerner |
| production | Howard W. Koch |
| music | Burton Lane |
| camera | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| cut | David Bretherton |
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One day the day will come ... is an American film musical by Vincente Minnelli with Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand in the leading roles. The story is based on the musical of the same name On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965), which in turn is based on a literary model by Alan Jay Lerner .
action
Daisy Gamble is a rather scatterbrained and scattered young lady with clairvoyant skills, who doesn't achieve much, but smokes at least five packs of cigarettes every day. Since her conservative and very convention-minded husband-to-be, Warren Pratt, insists that this smoke be over, she visits the French psychology professor Dr. Marc Chabot, who is supposed to get you off the glowing sticks. To do this, Daisy can also be hypnotized as part of a therapy. While Chabot treats Daisy, quite different things come to light: She is said to be the reborn Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees, a 19th century coquette who was once born the illegitimate daughter of a kitchen maid. At that time, Melinda acquired the paternity records of those children who were housed in the orphanage where her mother once had to deliver. With this knowledge, Melinda blackmailed the wealthy fathers of the orphans. Melinda later married British nobleman Robert Tentrees and was eventually charged with espionage and treason after Tentrees abandoned her. Lady Melinda Tentree's life ended in an execution.
The details of her past and future life that she tells in this state let Dr. Chabot gradually believe in transmigration of souls and rebirth. The fact that the Frenchman begins to fall in love with Daisy's former self, Lady Melinda, while Daisy in turn falls in love with the current Marc Chabot, doesn't make the whole thing any easier. Soon he will talk to his colleagues on campus, who advise Chabot to make a decision: either he should give up the meetings with Daisy and the associated research into reincarnation and Lady Melinda, or he should leave his job at the research institute. When Daisy waits for Chabot to arrive at another meeting, she learns from a tape recording that her psychologist and analyst seem to be interested only in her former self, the English lady. So disappointed, Daisy storms out of the office. At the last meeting, Daisy served up a very special fairy tale to her lover: In total, she had another 14 lives that she wanted to tell him about, including a future one as a certain Laura, who would marry her therapist in 2038 ...
Production notes
Once upon a time the day will come ... was shot in 1969 and premiered on June 17th, 1970 in. The German premiere of the film, which was never shown in cinemas in this country, took place on Christmas Day 1980 in the third program of Bavarian Radio.
Cecil Beaton designed the costumes; it was his last job for a film. The buildings were designed by John DeCuir , while George James Hopkins was responsible for the furnishings. Nelson Riddle worked as a conductor and music arranger.
music
The following numbers were played or sung:
- Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here , performed by Daisy
- On a Clear Day , performed by the orchestra and choir
- Love with All the Trimmings , performed by Daisy
- Melinda , presented by Marc
- Go to Sleep , performed by Daisy
- He Isn't You , performed by Daisy
- What Did I Have That I Don't Have? , performed by Daisy
- Come Back to Me , performed by Daisy
- On a Clear Day , presented by Marc
- On a Clear Day , performed by Daisy
Reviews
Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times : “The movie is pretty ordinary and a Broadway copy in most of the contemporary scenes. Miss Streisand ... defines innocence by keeping her knees together and her feet wide apart; a mannerism that she probably copied from Mary Pickford. Minnelli's camera is also very keen to find interesting things in the boring film decorations… […] However, Minnelli and Miss Streisand then rush back to life in the film as soon as it moves into the historical sections that were shot at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton . Minnelli's love of decor turns this film into a very real fantasy and turns its star into a stunning looking and funny character ... "
“Magnificent flashback scenes outshine the fragmentary storylines of modernity, many of which are obviously lost in the editing room. High gloss, but never touching. "
“Well-kept, sterile film adaptation of a musical that lacks momentum and irony. The numerous randomly interspersed songs drag the story out of proportion. "
“A romantic musical that tries (and thus is shipwrecked) to use fragile charm instead of the joie de vivre of the Broadway original. But there are reparations. "
Minnelli's "return to the (romantic) musical (" Once upon a time the day will come ... ") failed in 1969, the taste of the time had changed too much."
Web links
- On a Clear Day ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Whole review of June 18, 1970
- ↑ One day the day will come ... In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 5, p. 467. Berlin 2001