Great Expectations (2012)

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Movie
German title Great expectations
Original title Great Expectations
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 128 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mike Newell
script David Nicholls
production David Faigenblum ,
Elizabeth Karlsen ,
Emanuel Michael ,
Stephen Woolley
music Richard Hartley
camera John Mathieson
cut Tariq Anwar
occupation

Great Expectations is a British film adaptation of the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens .

The film is based on the content of the novel by Dickens, who in the years 1860 and 1861 in the magazine "All the Year Round" as a serial novel has been published and filmed more than 20 times since the 1909th Director Mike Newell and screenwriter David Nicholls stick closely to the novel in their 2012 adaptation . The film hit UK cinemas a year after the BBC's three-part miniseries Great Expectations . Its official world premiere took place on October 21, 2012 at the BFI London Film Festival , after it had already been shown in a preview in September 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival .

Synopsis

see: Great expectations - content of the novel

production

The film was shot within 37 days. Filming locations in London included a. Wrotham House, Swakeleys House, Chiswick Bridge and Princelet Street in Spitalfields , which was one of the slums of London in the 19th century and where much of the historic building fabric has been preserved. Another location was the former Gillette ’s European headquarters in Isleworth , an icon of Art Deco architecture. Today there are u. a. Film studios with complete Victorian film sets furnished with historic street furniture and props from the 19th century.

Awards

Helena Bonham Carter received the Tiantian Award (Best Supporting Actress) from the Beijing International Film Festival. Beatrix Aruna Pasztor was nominated for BAFTA (Best Costume Design) in 2013, John Mathieson for the BSC's Best Cinematography Award in 2012/2013 and Holliday Grainger for the Empire Award (Best Female Newcomer) in 2013 as well .

criticism

The film reviews reacted cautiously to the film. “'Great Expectations' is a dignified remake of the classic novel by Charles Dickens with a lot of show values ​​and good performance, but also some dramaturgical weaknesses and discrepancies", describes filmstarts.de the film.

Roger Ebert calls Newell's version a muppet-style approach to the novel, and the Telegraph titled his film review with the headline "The umpteenth version, Great Expectation, feels like a tour with an open bus that dutifully scours the well-known sights" .

The critic of the world praises John Mathieson's virtuoso camera work, but regrets the inability of the authors to concentrate on the essentials: “So the rather virtuoso camera flies over the best of seven hundred pages, the entire life of Pip Pirrip Gentleman. At first relatively sedate, then in a kind of dramaturgical pig gallop, in which all tied fate knots are untied within a quarter of an hour, the story goes along [...] in a panopticon of undead caricatures from the wax figure factory. "

Ilse Henckel, Spiegel's filmmaker , compares the film with David Lean's highly acclaimed adaptation from 1946 - “obvious, atmospherically dense black-and-white cinema” - and finds: “The 128-minute long arc of images lacks the emotional depth, the fine irony and reflection of the novel, with all the effort it looks uninspired and as flat as Pip's native marshland. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Great Expectations . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2013 (PDF; test number: 136 166 V).
  2. ↑ Great Expectations Released In Cinemas, filmlondon.org
  3. ^ John Preston: Behind the scenes on 'Great Expectations' The Telegraph, October 30, 2012, accessed October 1, 2016
  4. ↑ IMDb
  5. ↑ Great expectations, filmstarts.de accessed on September 30, 2016
  6. ↑ [...] "the general Muppet-style approach to character in this edition" , rogerebert.com November 8, 2013, accessed on September 30, 2016
  7. ↑ "The umpteenth adaptation of Great Expectations feels like an open-top bus tour, trundling dutifully past all of the familiar sights", Robbie Collin in: The Telegraph, November 29, 2012, accessed September 30, 2016
  8. ↑ Max Hermann: A Dickens film adaptation, as flat as a canvas welt.de, December 13, 2012, accessed on September 30, 2016
  9. ↑ Ilse Henckel: Bilderbogen with Waise Spiegel Online, December 13, 2012, accessed on September 30, 2016