Hereafter - the life after
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hereafter - the life after |
| Original title | Hereafter |
| Country of production | United States , United Kingdom |
| original language | English , French |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| script | Peter Morgan |
| production | Clint Eastwood, Kathleen Kennedy , Robert Lorenz |
| music | Clint Eastwood |
| camera | Tom Stern |
| cut |
Joel Cox , Gary D. Roach |
| occupation | |
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Hereafter - Life then is a US feature film by Clint Eastwood from the year 2010 . It was presented on September 12, 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released in Germany on January 27, 2011.
action
In Hereafter , three people meet, each confronted with death in different ways. The three storylines of the protagonists are intertwined at the end of the film.
George Lonegan, who lives in San Francisco, has a special gift: he can communicate with dead people, but only when he touches a relative of the deceased person. His older brother Billy previously marketed this gift, George appeared on television, a book has been written about him, and there is even a website about his work as a medium . Now George works in a factory for a low salary. Rumor has it that employers want to lay off around a third of their employees, and George is offered six months' wages as severance pay. One day an elderly Greek, a business partner of his brother, visits him and asks him to do a so-called "reading". During this procedure, George touches his "customers" by the hands to talk to the deceased relatives. The Greek learns so important details about his dead wife.
George begins to take a cooking class. At these weekly group meetings, he meets a young woman named Melanie who wants to develop a relationship with him. However, George is a bit dismissive at first because he thinks that a relationship with a woman cannot work because his gift stands in the way of a happy relationship. One evening, after another cooking class meeting, he takes Melanie home with him, they want to cook together. When George checks his answering machine, Melanie hears a message from Billy, who explains to George that he has arranged everything so that George can go back to his "old" business. Melanie wants to know what kind of business it is, and he tells her about his gift. She is curious and wants a reading with George. After a brief reluctance, he agrees and begins the procedure. When Melanie, who was abused by her father as a child, learns that her father would like to apologize for everything he has done to her, Melanie is very distressed and leaves George's apartment crying. She no longer shows up at the cooking class meetings.
French journalist Marie Lelay narrowly escaped her demise in the Thai tsunami disaster and now has to grapple with her mortality in order to cope with her near-death experience . Instead of a book about the French President François Mitterrand , she writes Hereafter , which is rejected by her publisher. A British publisher, however, offers her the publication and invites Marie to a book fair.
The 12-year-old Briton Marcus lost his twin brother Jason in a car accident and suffers greatly. In addition, his mother Jackie leaves him to enroll in a rehabilitation clinic to go, and Marcus comes to foster parents. He tries unwaveringly to get in touch with his brother by researching the Internet and visiting all kinds of media - without success.
One day, Billy wants to pick George up for work, he finds a letter from him in which he explains that he considers his gift to be a curse and that he needs a little break. He has flown to London and is on a tour of Charles Dickens ' house. At the book fair he hears a reading by his favorite writer Charles Dickens, given by the actor Derek Jacobi . Then George gets an audio book signed by Jacobi . As he strolls through the halls of the fair, he notices Marie, who is just introducing her book. He also gets a signed copy from her and feels a strange connection with her. Shortly afterwards, Marcus recognizes him and asks him for a reading , but the latter refuses. Marcus follows George all the way to his hotel and when he is not admitted he stays outside in the cold until it is night. George feels sorry for him and now offers him a reading . After the procedure, George tells Marcus how much his brother missed him, but Marcus is now on his own and has to get through life on his own. Marcus then cries, he doesn't want his brother to leave him completely. George explains to him that he will never be completely alone, his brother will always be with him. Marcus, now a little happier, is brought back to his foster parents by George . He also tells George the name of the hotel where Marie is staying.
The next day, George immediately goes to Marie's hotel and sends her a letter inviting her to a café. When he sees her looking around, he has a vision in which both kiss and he can hold her hand free from looking into the hereafter. He gets up, walks up to her and shakes her hand - without, as usual, a vision occurring.
Marcus visits his mother in rehab. Both are visibly better than ever.
background
The film deals with the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 in London and the tsunami as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake .
German dubbed version
The German dubbing was done at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich . Synchronous Director led Marina Köhler .
Marco Roda dubbed the roles of the twins, which were played by Frankie McLaren and George McLaren .
The German dubbed version contains scenes with Cécile de France in French with German subtitles.
Reviews
"He films death with an ease, a nonchalance, like otherwise only Cocteau ."
“[The] first few minutes are also the most dramatic and have little in common with the rest of the film. There the absence of any drama within the three stories is irritating, as this was always noticeable even in Eastwood's weaker films. The less inspired staging and the inhibited acting actors can hardly counteract the already weak script. "
“So the seriousness, his complete no-nonsense approach to a topic that is so full of trapdoors into the unspeakable, was to be expected, as well as that these trapdoors remain securely closed at Eastwood. He has already made smaller or larger masterpieces from other materials that deeply into the sentimental, i.e. wrong feelings and wrong consciousness and lots of clichés, The Bridges of Madison County for example or Million Dollar Baby . And so is the question that everyone asks themselves who has the experience of the death of a neighbor in their bones - the question of what remains, where the memory and pain are located and whether this place is in this world or halfway beyond its limits - in the best of hands with Eastwood. "
Awards
Hereafter was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 2011 Academy Awards.
Web links
- Hereafter - Life after theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Hereafter - Life after atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Expert opinion from the German Film and Media Assessment - rating particularly valuable
- Reviews of Hereafter - Life afterwards at Moviepilot
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Hereafter - Life After . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 558 K).
- ↑ Age indication for Hereafter - Life afterwards . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Piers Handling: Hereafter. Toronto International Film Festival , archived from the original on August 20, 2010 ; accessed on March 17, 2017 (English).
- ↑ The 1st trailer (OV): HEREAFTER. The new film from Clint Eastwood. Cinema , September 14, 2010, accessed March 1, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Hereafter - The life after. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Fritz Göttler: Hereafter. In: In the cinema. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 28, 2011, accessed on March 1, 2017 : "Death suits him well"
- ↑ Till Kadritzk: Hereaftere. critic.de, January 25, 2011, accessed March 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Verena Lueken : What the dead tell us: "Hereafter". In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 26, 2011, accessed on March 1, 2017 .