Genova (film)

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Movie
German title Genova
Original title Genova
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length approx. 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Michael Winterbottom
script Laurence Coriat ,
Michael Winterbottom
production Andrew Eaton ,
Michael Winterbottom
music Melissa Parmenter
camera Marcel Zyskind
cut Paul Monaghan
occupation

Genova is a British film drama from the year 2008 . Directed by Michael Winterbottom , who also co-produced the film and wrote the script together with Laurence Coriat . The film takes place in Genoa .

action

The British university professor lives in the United States, he is married and has two daughters: Kelly and Mary. His wife, Marianne, dies in a car accident in Illinois caused by 10-year-old Mary fooling around in the back seat. Joe accepts an offer as a university professor in Genoa and moves with his daughters to the old town of Genoa.

Both daughters should attend an Italian school at the beginning of the school year. Until then, they will have piano and Italian language lessons. 16-year-old Kelly falls in love with a young Italian on the beach, which she hides from her worried and loving father. She often travels with her new boyfriend as a pillion passenger on the scooter. At the university, Joe is courted by one of his colleagues whom he knows from before. His students also like their attractive English lecturer, one of whom encourages him quite bluntly to go out with her.

Little Mary can't get over her mother's death and wakes up screaming every night. She keeps seeing her mother's apparition on the streets, follows her, but can never reach her. The road traffic, the dark medieval streets and everyday life itself take on threatening features. Tensions arise between the sisters as the little one becomes a nuisance to her older sister. On a trip to the mountains, Mary follows her mother's ghost once again, gets lost, but is found again a little later. After a piano lesson, when Kelly, who is supposed to pick her up, is late with her boyfriend and Joe has a date with his student on the beach, Mary goes home alone. She sees her mother again, follows her dazedly through the dark alleys and remains gone. Joe, his colleague and Kelly go on a search. Joe finally finds the child by chance at the edge of an expressway: the family barely escapes a pile-up and is then interrogated by the police.

On the first day of school, Joe accompanies his two daughters on their way to school.

backgrounds

The film was produced by the British company FilmFour , owned by Channel 4 , as well as by Revolution Films owned by producer Andrew Eaton. It was shot in Genoa and Östersund ( Sweden ).

Was recorded digitally (HDV) with cameras Sony HDW-F750 and Sony HVR-V1E, then transferred to 35mm .

Its world premiere took place in May 2008 at the Cannes International Film Festival . From September 7, 2008, screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival were planned. In September 2008 the film was shown at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián .

music

Passages from the Étude Op. 10, No. 3 by Frédéric Chopin accompany the film in various interpretations. The approach to Genoa is accompanied by Le Grand Choral , composed by Georges Delerue for François Truffaut's film The American Night .

Reviews

The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival wrote that the film shows how loss can affect a family. Colin Firth is the "ideal choice" for the role of the family man. The film shows the influence of When the Gondolas Bear Mourning , but the director's own artistic sensitivity is clearly noticeable.

ViewLondon wrote about a "highly recommendable" film that was "impressively staged, superbly played, precisely written".

  • For Ain't It Cool News it was "immediately obvious that a skilled director was at work."
  • Twitch spoke of a filmmaker "at the height of his art" ("a director at the top of his game"). The traffic accident would be "almost unbearable".
  • Dark Horizons spoke of "minimal narrative coherence " and a camera that probes directly into "the thoughts and needs of two girls in their emotional maturity", and "life does indeed go on [...]".

Awards

  • 2008 Jury Prize for Michael Winterbottom, Tallinn Black Nights Film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b tiff08.ca , accessed on September 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Release certificate for Genova . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 954 V).
  3. ↑ Bifa , accessed September 7, 2019
  4. ^ Filming locations for Genova , accessed September 3, 2008
  5. ↑ Technical specifications for Genova , accessed March 18, 2009
  6. ↑ Release dates for Genova , accessed September 3, 2008
  7. ^ Matthew Turner: Genova (tbc). In: ViewLondon. October 22, 2008, accessed on March 18, 2009 (English): "impressively directed, superbly acted and sharply written […] Highly recommended"
  8. ↑ El Chivo: Toronto: El Chivo on Martyrs, The Burrowers, Che, Genova, 50 Dead Men Walking !!! In: Ain't It Cool News. September 12, 2008, accessed on March 18, 2009 (English): "it was immediately apparent a skilled director was on the job"
  9. ↑ Cameron Bailey: Genova retrieved May 16, 2019
  10. ↑ Paul Fischer: TIFF: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Genova. (No longer available online.) In: Dark Horizons. September 8, 2008, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 18, 2009 (English): “with minimalist narrative cohesion. His cameras probe into the thoughts and longs of two girls and their emotional growth [...] life indeed goes on "