Fool for Love

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Movie
German title Fool for Love
Original title Fool for Love
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Robert Altman
script Sam Shepard
production Yoram Globus ,
Menahem Golan
music George Burt
camera Pierre Mignot
cut Stephen P. Dunn ,
Luce Grunenwaldt
occupation

Fool for Love (Alternate title on TV: Liebestoll - Fool for Love , Fool for Love - Mad with Love ) is an American film drama from the year 1985 . Directed by Robert Altman , the screenplay was written by Sam Shepard based on his own play and produced by Cannon Films .

action

May lives in a motel room in the American Southwest. While she is preparing for the arrival of her partner Martin, her former relationship partner Eddie arrives unexpectedly. She broke up with him when he began a relationship with a woman who is exclusively called "The Countess" in the film. Eddie wants May to come back to him. She vigorously fends off all his attempts, which is why there are passionate arguments with arguments and outbreaks of violence.

Meanwhile, there is always a mostly wordless old man around who seems to live in a trailer on the premises, and who later turns out to be May's father.

Finally Martin arrives and May and Eddie spend the evening talking with him and partly with the old man. The viewer learns in the stories supplemented with flashbacks that the old man is Mays and Eddie's father who had led a double life in two families for many years. The half-siblings met without realizing that they are related and that their relationship is incest .

Suddenly "The Countess" returns, who had previously appeared wildly shooting before. This time, among other things, she shoots Eddie's car on fire, whereupon even more on the site catch fire. The film ends with May leaving the burning area.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 18, 1985: "The film shows two people whose injuries are so deep that they can barely talk about their true feelings. Shepard is a strong portrayal, but Kim dominates the game Basinger the movie. " Ebert wrote that nothing prepared him for the dimensions that Basinger found in this role. Part of the credit goes to the director, who has done a “brilliant” job. Altman had already shown unfulfilled women in his earlier films who became aware of the waste of life.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the "clever and confident staging of the thin play by Sam Shepard" shows "stranded people who are the plaything of the action and cannot push forward to themselves" . The relationships of the characters would be "on the plays of Tennessee Williams " remember "its figures also the world as a junkyard of feelings experience" .

Awards

The film took part in the 1986 Cannes International Film Festival as a competition entry, whereby Robert Altman was nominated for the Palme d' Or. In 1986 he won the Golden Dolphin of the Tróia International Film Festival .

backgrounds

The film was shot in El Dorado, New Mexico and in Las Vegas . It was released in US cinemas in December 1985 and grossed around 468,000 US dollars .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Fool for Love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2004 (PDF; test number: 56 714 V / DVD).
  2. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed January 18, 2008
  3. ^ Fool for Love in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed January 18, 2008
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Fool for Love, accessed January 18, 2008
  5. ↑ Fool for Love release dates , accessed January 18, 2008
  6. ↑ Box office / business for Fool for Love, accessed January 18, 2008