Flirting - play with love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Flirting - play with love |
| Original title | Flirting |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Duigan |
| script | John Duigan |
| production |
Terry Hayes , George Miller , Doug Mitchell |
| music | James D'Arcy |
| camera | Geoff Burton |
| cut | Robert Gibson |
| occupation | |
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Flirting - Spiel mit der Liebe (original title Flirting ), an Australian feature film, was shot in 1990 by director and screenwriter John Duigan as a sequel to the 1987 film The year of my first love . The life story of the awkward Australian teenager Danny Embling ( Noah Taylor ), originally envisaged as a trilogy and featuring autobiographical traits from director and author John Duigan, never came about.
The film won the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Picture in 1990 . Nicole Kidman appeared in this film for the last time in an Australian produced film before continuing her career in Hollywood.
action
Danny Embling, an awkward, underdeveloped teenager with intermittent stuttering attacks, attends a boys' boarding school in New South Wales , Australia . The year is 1965 and some years have passed since Danny had a romantic relationship with a girl (his former great love Freya from The Year of My First Love left him at a critical point in his sexual development). Slowly he begins to develop feelings for Thandiwe Adjewa, a Ugandan-Kenyan-British girl (father Ugandan, mother Kenyan British) who attends the girls' school across the lake. They cultivated a maturing romance throughout the school year, despite the strict rules that were in place. In particular, racial politics (the couple is multiracial) and social conventions (Thandiwe is viewed by religiously influenced authority figures as rebellious and too open to sexual matters) cause problems.
While the story describes the universal themes of romance and love, it also puts the characteristics of the "Australian character" to the test: existing isolation (both caused by geographical and environmental factors) and strong cultural ties with Britain.
criticism
"The film, excellently played by the young actors, also testifies to the empathy of the director, who takes the problems of his protagonists seriously, but conveys them with astonishing ease."
Web links
- Flirting - Play with the love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flirting - playing with love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .