Heavenly Creatures

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Movie
German title Heavenly Creatures
Original title Heavenly Creatures
Country of production New Zealand , Great Britain , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Peter Jackson
script Peter Jackson
Fran Walsh
production Jim Booth ,
Hanno Huth
music Peter Dasent
camera Alun Bollinger
cut Jamie Selkirk
occupation

Heavenly Creatures is a feature film from 1994. Directed by Peter Jackson , one of the leading roles is Kate Winslet to see. The film is based on a true story.

action

Mid-1950s in Christchurch , New Zealand . The teenagers Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme develop an unusually intense friendship with one another. They try to escape the boredom of their everyday lives by dreaming their way into a realm from the Middle Ages . They are both outsiders because those around them despise them, their parents don't seem to understand them, and finally they are accused of being homosexual . That is why the parents do everything in their power to separate the two girls. As a result, Pauline developed a hatred of her mother Honora, which grew more and more over time.

When the Hulmes' marriage falls apart and their father returns to England, Juliet is said to be placed with distant relatives in South Africa because of her sick lungs . Pauline absolutely wants to accompany Juliet, but the parents of both girls do not agree. Pauline sees the murder of her mother as the only way to prevent her separation from Juliet. She persuades her to kill Honora with a brick in a stocking while walking in Victoria Park on June 22, 1954.

Reviews

On reelviews.net, James Berardinelli praised the direction by Peter Jackson, the layout of the characters of Juliet and Pauline as well as the acting performances of the two leading actresses.

Georg Seeßlen judged that it had become "one of those films that you can't really be angry with, that in many moments are on the verge of actually taking hold of him, Seeßlen, in order to generate cinematic heat."

“A perfectly shaped poetic-psychological thriller about the banal origins of evil and, from a creative point of view, about the mutual conditioning of horror and idyll. Based on the recordings of the perpetrators, the film tries to show the individual and social backgrounds of the crime. He abstains from any moral judgment. "

- Lexicon of international film

background

  • It was Peter Jackson's partner Fran Walsh who convinced Jackson, after a series of horror comedies, to tell the murder case from the 1950s from the perspective of the two teenagers, and who also researched and wrote the screenplay for it.
  • Visualizing the girls' dream world prompted Jackson and others to found WETA Digital , which has since contributed visual effects to numerous films, including Jackson's Tolkien trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit .
  • The real Juliet Hulme became a successful novelist under the name Anne Perry . Her true identity only came to light at the start of the film. Hulme disapproved of the lesbian aspect of Peter Jackson's film in an interview.
  • Peter Jackson has a homeless cameo who is kissed on the cheek by Kate Winslet when she comes out of the cinema with her friend.
  • The film was parodied in the television series The Simpsons (episode: The Chronicles of Equalia )
  • German television broadcasts the film drama under the title Heavenly Creatures .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Pauline Parker Melanie Lynskey Bianca Krahl
Juliet Hulme Kate Winslet Alexandra Wilcke
Honora Parker Sarah Peirse Brita summer
Hilda Hulme Diana Kent Karin Buchholz
Dr. Henry Hulme Clive Merrison Reinhard Kuhnert
Herbert Rieper Simon O'Connor Klaus Jepsen
Dr. Bennett Gilbert Goldie Hermann Ebeling
John / Nicholas Jed Brophy Peter Flechtner
Bill Perry Peter Elliott Lutz Riedel
Miss Stewart Darien Takle Marianne Lutz
Miss Waller Elizabeth Moody Gisela Fritsch
Mrs. Stevens Moreen Eason Christel Merian
Steve Glen Drake Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Wendy Kirsti Ferry Melanie Pukass

Soundtrack

The soundtrack , released by Milan, includes 22 songs.

No. title
1. The Princess of Ilam (Dasent)
2. Meet the Reipers (Dasent)
3. Be My Love (Brodsky / Cahn) performed by Mario Lanza
4th The Shrine (Dasent)
5. "Two Dutiful Daughters" (Dasent)
6th The Donkey Serenade (Frim / Stothart / Wright / Forrest) performed by Mario Lanza
7th The Fourth World (Dasent)
8th. Bad Chests and Bone Diseases (Dasent)
9. Funiculi, Funicula (Traditional) performed by Mario Lanza
10. Life in Borovnia (Dasent)
11. To Hollywood (Dasent)
12. Divorce (Dasent)
13. Pauline & Juliet (Dasent)
14th E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) performed by Peter Dvorsky
15th For the Good of Your Health (Dasent)
16. The Most Hideous Man Alive (Dasent)
17th Juliet's Aria (Sono Andati by Puccini) performed by Kate Winslet
18th A Night With the Saints (Dasent)
19th The Loveliest Night of the Year (Aaronson / Webster) performed by Mario Lanza
20th The Pursuit of Happiness (Dasent)
21st The Humming Chorus (Puccini) performed by the Hungarian State Opera
22nd You'll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers / Hammerstein) performed by Mario Lanza

Awards

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardellini on reelviews.net , accessed February 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ Review by Georg Seeßlen on getidan.de, accessed on February 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Heavenly Creatures in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on February 21, 2014. Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  4. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Heavenly Creatures. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Nominations and awards on imdb.com, accessed on May 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ Heavenly Creatures on fbw-filmb Bewertung.com, accessed February 27, 2020.