Good Woman - A summer in Amalfi

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Movie
German title Good Woman - A summer in Amalfi
Original title A good woman
Country of production USA , UK , Spain , Italy , Luxembourg
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Mike Barker
script Howard Himelstein
production Jonathan English
Alan Greenspan
Howard Himelstein
Steven Siebert
music Richard G. Mitchell
camera Ben Seresin
cut Neil Farrell
occupation

Good Woman - A Summer in Amalfi ( A Good Woman ) is a comedy film from 2004. Directed by Mike Barker and written by Howard Himelstein basis of the play Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde from the year 1892nd

action

The action takes place in 1930. Stella Erlynne has made herself socially impossible in New York and travels to Amalfi with the proceeds of her pawned jewelry . Lord Windermere and his wife Meg have just settled there for the season. Lord Darlington, a notorious playboy , meets Meg by chance in a shop. It turns out that Windermere and Darlington know each other from London.

When the two want to go to the club with Meg, Windermere is called off by a phone call. He meets with Stella Erlynne. He later sets up an apartment for her and opens an account for her. Darlington makes Meg advances; but she is loyal to her husband. Meg meets Stella Erlynne in a shop, who is trying on a rather frivolous dress. In the club, Stella meets the rich, twice divorced Tuppy, who immediately inflames for her. Windermeres invite you to Meg's birthday, to which Tuppy wants to bring Stella - much to the reluctance of the Windermeres -.

Darlington suggests to Meg that Windermere is having a relationship with Stella Erlynne. Meg accidentally discovers shortly before the birthday party that her husband regularly transfers large amounts of money to Mrs. Erlynne. Meg no longer believes that he only helps her with financial transactions. In addition, the viewer learns that Stella Erlynne is Meg's mother, who heartlessly left her daughter as a small child.

At the party, Meg, outraged at her husband's infidelity, wears the same frivolous dress that Stella Erlynne tried on in the store. Stella also appears in this dress, which adds to various mix-ups and complications at the party. Meg persuades Plumby to take her husband to the club, but embarks on the yacht Darlington lives on. Mrs. Erlynne has since heard that Windermere is supposed to have a relationship with her and realizes that Meg wants to cheat on him with Darlington about it. She follows Meg and confronts her in vain on the yacht when the whole company appears on the yacht before the two women can leave it.

Stella Erlynne presents the situation as if she was expecting Darlington, whereupon Tuppy breaks off the engagement that has already entered into. Windermere is reconciled with Meg without actually giving out the information that Mrs. Erlynne is her mother and that Windermere was only blackmailed. Stella Erlynne appears to bring back a fan from Meg. Although Windermere warns her, she wants to tell Meg that she is her mother, with which she would wash away the allegation of the relationship with Meg's husband. Before she tells this secret, however, she makes Meg swear not to tell anyone about it. Meg swears "by her mother", who she thinks is a pure angel, so she has a false memory. Stella doesn't say anything more about it.

Stella Erlynne is forced to leave Amalfi by Windermere. The Windermeres are thus reconciled again. When leaving the Amalfi Coast by plane, Stella notices that Tuppy is flying with her. Meg told him an adventurous story that will restore Stella's honor in his eyes.

So everyone is happy and satisfied. Mrs. Erlynne is also a good woman, only Lord Darlington is of questionable morality. But he is forgiven for playing bridge well, as Contessa Lucchino says.

Reviews

Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone magazine on January 23, 2006, the quality of the representations - apart from that of Tom Wilkinson - is between " amateurish " and " horrific " (" the acting ranges from amateurish to atrocious "). Helen Hunt's game is " ruthlessly cruel " compared to Wilde's original.

Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times on February 3, 2006 that the film was " well meaning " and somewhat entertaining. If you try to modernize the story, you would lose some of the things that made the play unforgettable. The portrayal of Johansson seems artificial and not convincing; Hunt seems miscarried.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a " melancholy comedy ". She doesn't just lay “ the social roots ” of the filmed play and indulge in “ the purely decorative as a leisurely piece of equipment ”.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

backgrounds

The film was shot in the Italian towns of Amalfi , Atrani , Ravello , Rome and Sorrento . It had its world premiere on September 15, 2004 at the Toronto International Film Festival and has since been shown at several other film festivals. The film grossed around $ 223,000 in US cinemas, around £ 541,000 in UK cinemas and around a million euros in Spanish cinemas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Good Woman - A Summer in Amalfi . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 990 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Good Woman - A Summer in Amalfi . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Film review by Peter Travers, accessed October 9, 2007
  4. ↑ Kenneth Turan's review, accessed October 9, 2007
  5. ↑ Good Woman - A Summer in Amalfi. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Filming locations for A Good Woman, accessed October 9, 2007
  7. ^ A Good Woman premiere dates, accessed October 9, 2007
  8. ^ Box office / business for A Good Woman, accessed October 9, 2007