Igby
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Igby |
| Original title | Igby Goes Down |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Burr Steers |
| script | Burr Steers |
| production |
Lisa Tornell Trish Hofmann Marco Weber |
| music | Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen |
| camera | Wedigo von Schultzendorff |
| cut | William M. Anderson |
| occupation | |
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Igby (Original title: Igby Goes Down ) is an American film from the director Burr Steers from 2002.
action
Igby grows up as the youngest son of a rich but troubled family. The only good relationship he has with his loving but schizophrenic father. His mother Mimi is domineering and dependent on pills, and Igby describes his older, always perfect brother Oliver as a fascist . Correspondingly disoriented, Igby wanders through life. He flies from several schools until his mother's collar bursts and she sends him to a military school . After he fled from there, he takes a summer job with his godfather DH in New York and spends the weekends in his house in the Hamptons . There he met Sookie, who worked there as a waitress, at a party, with whom he later fell in love. It helps him pass the test for his university entrance qualification.
Igby also has problems with his godfather: After he finds accommodation with his lover in the studio paid for by DH without DH's knowledge, one day he meets DH in a compromising situation, which in turn realizes that he has betrayed both Igby and Rachel has been. He then drops Rachel. Igby later found Rachel passed out after she accidentally overdoses. He then calls DH who takes Rachel to the hospital. When they get back from there, DH beats Igby up. Igby then comes to Rachel's drug dealer, for whom he does messenger services. Igby wants to run away, but Sookie, who has started a relationship with his brother, refuses to go with him.
Meanwhile, his mother, who is suffering from cancer, learns that more metastases have formed in her body and decides that her two sons should assist her in her suicide. Oliver and Igby feed them sleeping pills together. In her last waking minute, she informs Igby that his godfather is his biological father. After she falls asleep, her sons suffocate her with a plastic bag. Igby disappears during the funeral, visits the man he always thought was his father in the psychiatric ward and then flies to California .
music
Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen was responsible for the film music . During the film, songs from The Beta Band , The Dandy Warhols , Badly Drawn Boy , Travis and Coldplay, among others , can be heard, while the credits are Pete Yorn . The soundtrack was released in 2003 by Spun Records. In addition to some songs and scores by Fahrenkrog-Petersen used in the film, there are also songs by the German interpreters Somersault , Jelly Planet and Underwater Circus .
Reviews
“Writer and director Burr Steers sends his likable main character on a weird self-discovery trip à la The Catcher in the Rye , which stands out from the teenagers' all sorts and cleverly bypasses all pathos traps. The fantastic cast - in addition to the sensational discovery Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes and Amanda Peet are brilliant - ensures that the extraordinary, sensitively told and unreservedly discoverable ode to slackerism should appeal not only to kids. "
"Teenage drama that constructs an art world that is based more on fictional models than the current world and ultimately loses itself in insignificance."
“Burr Steers' directorial debut aims to be satire and realistic milieu study, comedy with a literary touch à la The Royal Tenenbaums and culture-critical drama. However, Igby's narrative consistency is sometimes lost between the stills ; What begins as the hero's astute downward slide is finally bogged down in episodic back and forth. But the social climate of a post-yuppie society is brilliantly captured, which only uses its wealth to extinguish itself. Spiritually impoverished, wealth deprives it to an American nightmare, to a cultural and social indictment of poverty. "
Awards
Kieran Culkin won the BFCA Award, the Golden Satellite Award and the Sierra Award in 2002. Burr Steers won the Sierra Award and the Comedy Film Honor in 2003.
Web links
- Igby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Review of VideoWoche on amazon.de
- ↑ Igby. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. spiegel.de