Eldorado (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Eldorado |
| Country of production | Belgium , France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bouli Lanners |
| script | Bouli Lanners |
| production |
Jacques-Henri Bronckart Jérôme Vidal Olivier Bronckart Arlette Zylberberg |
| music | Max Richter |
| camera | Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd |
| cut |
Ewin Ryckaert Marc Bastien |
| occupation | |
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Eldorado is a Belgian-French road movie by Bouli Lanners . It was selected for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs , which takes place parallel to the Cannes International Film Festival , and premiered there on May 18, 2008. The film was also Belgium's official nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards , but it was not included in the five nominees. The film premiered in Germany on May 14, 2009.
action
Car salesman Yvan finds drug addicted burglar Elie in his bedroom and tries to evict him first. Out of pity, however, he begins to help the person who is living in rehab and drives him to his parents with some obstacles. There, Elie, who is actually called Didier, is received by his mother, but his father does not welcome him. On their way back to town, Elie / Didier plans to buy heroin to euthanize a dog that was thrown from a bridge onto Yvan's Chevrolet and survived badly injured. However, he does not return from this errand. The dog dies and Yvan buries him alone.
criticism
The daily writes on May 14, 2009: “You shouldn't get pissed off with the film and misunderstand it as a tragicomic buddy movie. A nihilistic heart beats inside Eldorado : For Lanners, Belgium is the heart of darkness, a country where the hardship of fathers drives sons into drug addiction, where dogs are tied up from motorway bridges and everyone is guilty, even if he is just wanted to help. "
The Berliner Morgenpost criticizes the German distributor for calling the film a "weird road movie", because that sounds "like drunk and sex comedies from Hollywood, but Lanners is very far from them."
For Margret Koehler from Bavarian TV, everything is right at this “ comédie humaine ... from the two actors to the original music. The two irresistible loners with spiky charm fail in the attempt to cement the pieces of broken life back together into a halfway whole, to undo what has happened. "
background
The title of the film refers to the Cadillac Eldorado car , which was originally intended to be driven in the film, but has been replaced by a Chevrolet .
The film idea is based on a true story. Director and screenwriter Lanners describes Eldorado as "true fiction that mixes things from real life with moments of pure invention." Lanners not only stood behind the camera, but also embodied the character of Yvan in front of the camera.
technology
The film was shot in color on 35mm film in 2.35: 1 with Dolby Digital sound.
Web links
- Official site of the film
- Eldorado in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Eldorado . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 470 K).
- ↑ The Heart of Darkness , the daily newspaper . Retrieved August 27, 2009
- ↑ My burglar and I , Berliner Morgenpost . Retrieved August 27, 2009
- ^ Eldorado ( Memento from July 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), BR-Online .
- ↑ moviepilot.de: Eldorado: Sweet and sour road movie by Bouli Lanners