Hello - goodbye
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hello - goodbye |
| Original title | Hello - goodbye |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Negulesco |
| script | Roger Marshall |
| production | André Hakim |
| music | Francis Lai |
| camera | Henri Decae |
| cut | Richard Bryan |
| occupation | |
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Hello - Goodbye is a British comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Michael Crawford , Curd Jürgens and Ira von Fürstenberg .
action
The smart, boyish charmer and auto mechanic Harry England is not only called that, he is even English, and all his love is chic luxury and sports cars. While driving his Aston Martin to a gas station in the south of France , he meets the beautiful, blonde aristocrat Dany. She has a problem with her Rolls-Royce that broke down. The two young people quickly enjoy each other and decide to continue driving together. In Paris they enjoy life in chic bistros and love in a much less chic budget hotel. The short, intoxicating happiness soon comes to an end when Dany wants to go back to the south of France, or more precisely: to Marseille, while Harry has to go home to London. Soon Harry receives a message from a certain Baron de Choisis, and he returns to the south of France. This French nobleman of the old school offers Harry a well-paid assignment: he is supposed to look after the baron's noble vintage car collection and at the same time play nanny for his teenage scion Raymond.
Harry soon learns that Dany is behind this assignment: she is the wife of the much older nobleman. He clearly sees through Harry's feelings for his wife and doesn't seem to mind that the two young people continue their affair. The Baron says bluntly: "Afterwards she always comes back to me and things will go better than ever." Harry takes a room in Marseille and asks Dany to leave her husband. But the young luxury creature loves everything that the old man can and offers her in life and therefore declines with thanks to become the steadfast friend of the English have-not. Frustrated, Harry reaches for the bottle, gets drunk without restraint and then drives his patron's rolls into the swimming pool in this state. He has since grown tired of his young, flighty wife and has caught the young US millionaire heiress Evelyn Rossan. The frustrated Dany then decides to take the next ship to the USA. Harry races to the docks at Le Havre, where he can intercept Dany at the last moment, and convinces her to stay with him.
Production notes
Hello - Goodbye was created in 1969 in Cannes and on the Côte d'Azur, among others . The film premiered on July 12, 1970 in New York; the German premiere was on October 16 of the same year.
The originally engaged director Ronald Neame shot a few scenes unnamed before he threw in the towel because of the constant interference on the set by the head of the production company, Darryl F. Zanuck , and took over Negulesco.
John Howell designed the film structures that Auguste Capelier implemented. The costumes are made by Rosine Delamare . For the blonde Zanuck protégé Geneviève Gilles , who primarily had to show bare skin here, this should remain the only movie.
Director Negulesco shot this film and the previous production The Dirty Heroes of Yucca , an action and adventure film, in quick succession. Both films were outright box office and critic flops; Negulesco's directorial style was meanwhile, around the year 1970, as "hopelessly antiquated".
Reviews
The closing film Negulescos, the then year 70-fast and experienced and accustomed to success Hollywood veterans of the 1950s ( sinking of the Titanic , How to Marry a Millionaire , Three Coins in the Fountain , Daddy Longlegs ) , received disastrous reviews. Here are a few examples:
“Bad triangle relationship that leads nowhere and doesn't make any sense. Terrible, limp, angry. "
“A boring, superficial entertainment film that portrays the life and loves of the upper ten thousand without a distance and uncritically. Somewhat bearable only with Michael Crawford as the young car dealer. "
"Undemanding, aimless, easy-to-forget romantic comedy, full of old-fashioned clichés ..."
Film critic Roger Ebert said: “'Hello-Goodbye' is a terribly stupid movie, no doubt about it, but it shows us an interesting variation on our good old friend, the 'idiot plot'. An idiot act, you remember, is an act that every contributor needs to be an idiot. Otherwise, someone would do the obvious, the crisis would be overcome and the film would be over in 13 minutes. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 5, p. 633. Berlin 2001
- ↑ Hello - Goodbye. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Review on rogerebert.com
Web links
- Hello - Goodbye in the Internet Movie Database (English)