Beloved Aphrodite

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Movie
German title Beloved Aphrodite
Original title Mighty Aphrodite
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Woody Allen
script Woody Allen
production Jean Doumanian
music Dick Hyman
camera Carlo Di Palma
cut Susan E. Morse
occupation

Beloved Aphrodite is a 1995 comedy directed by Woody Allen .

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Sports journalist Lenny and his wife Amanda adopt a boy who grows up to be a bright, humorous, and quick-witted child. One day, Lenny can no longer contain his curiosity and goes in search of the boy's biological mother. This is the prostitute Linda, who also otherwise - especially with regard to her intellect - does not correspond to the idea of ​​Lenny. Even so, they become friends, and Lenny tries to lead them back onto the path of virtue. He buys her off from her pimp for basketball tickets and tries to pair her with a decent guy. When his marriage falls into a crisis, Lenny sleeps with Linda, and the two father a daughter, but he never learns about it; just as Linda never found out that Lenny's son Max was her birth child.

Reviews

“A New York sports journalist and gallery owner who find that something is fortunate to be missing in their marriage adopt a little boy. The man investigates the mother and finds her in a warm prostitute to whom he feels drawn. What would have been a tragedy in classical times, represented by a Greek tragedy choir, Woody Allen develops into a punchy and imaginative, clever and warm-hearted comedy, with which he in turn describes the search for meaning of an intellectual city dweller. "

Awards

Mira Sorvino was awarded an Oscar for best supporting actress in 1996 for her portrayal of the prostitute Linda . Woody Allen was also nominated for an Oscar for the script.

Mira Sorvino won the National Board of Review Award and the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 1995, the Golden Globe Award , the Chlotrudis Award , the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award in 1996 . She was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA Award in 1996.

Woody Allen was nominated for the 1996 Writers Guild of America Award .

Remarks

The DVD was released by Arthaus in 1999 and is now out of print; Arthaus did not plan a new edition either. In December 2013. brought STUDIOCANAL the The Woody Allen Collection on DVD and Blu-ray on the market. This includes, among other things, the film Beloved Aphrodite . In April 2018 the film was re-released on DVD and BluRay by Concorde.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Beloved Aphrodite. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 13, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used