See Bruges ... and die?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | See Bruges ... and die? |
| Original title | In Bruges |
| Country of production |
United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin McDonagh |
| script | Martin McDonagh |
| production |
Graham Broadbent , Peter Czernin |
| music | Carter Burwell |
| camera | Eigil Bryld |
| cut |
Jon Gregory , Ian Seymour |
| occupation | |
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See Bruges ... and die? (Original title: In Bruges ) is a film drama from 2008 , which contains a tragicomic tone and action elements. It stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson . Directed by Martin McDonagh , who also wrote the script. The film takes place in the medieval setting of downtown Bruges .
action
The Irish hitmen Ray and Ken are traveling just before Christmas at the behest of their patron Harry from London to Bruges. There they are supposed to go into hiding for a while after an attack they have carried out. They quarter in a small hotel and wait for Harry's call. To pass the time, visit medieval buildings in the old town of Bruges. Ray, the younger of the two, detests the museum-like city and is annoyed, while the older Ken is impressed by its beauty and history.
Ray meets Chloë while filming in town. During an appointment with her, there is an argument with a Canadian tourist couple at the next table, as a result of which Ray knocks the Canadians down. Later that evening there was a scuffle in Chloë's apartment with her friend Eirik, in which Ray shoots him in the eye with a blank cartridge.
In the course of the film it turns out that Ray suffers from feelings of guilt and is depressed, because in his first contract killing he accidentally killed a little boy. When Harry calls Ken, he learns that he should kill Ray for this misconduct. The trip to Bruges should serve to prepare for this last beautiful day in the city that Harry has been fond of since childhood.
Ken hesitates to do the job and even thwarts Ray's suicide attempt . He helps him to escape by train and informs his client about this. However, Ray is arrested by the police during the train ride and taken back to town because the Canadian couple recognized him. Chloë picks him up from the police station and takes his bail.
Meanwhile, Harry travels to Bruges to kill the disobedient Ken. During an argument with Harry, Ken throws himself from the Belfry of Bruges and dies. Harry spots Ray in the forecourt of the tower and a chase ensues through the city. This ends after an interlude in the hotel on the film set, where the short actor Jimmy is also present, with whom Ken and Ray had made the acquaintance of the days before. There Harry catches the injured Ray and shoots him again.
With one shot of his dum-dum ammunition, he accidentally hits Jimmy standing behind Ray in the head. Since the actor wears a school uniform for filming and his head is completely disfigured, Harry believes that he also killed a child. According to his own code of honor, Harry kills himself with a shot in the head. Ray is badly wounded and taken to an ambulance. The film ends with Ray's sentence “I wished I didn't die!”. It remains to be seen whether Ray will survive.
background
The film was the first full-length feature film by director and screenwriter Martin McDonagh after the short film Six Shooter . He saw the project as a likely unique opportunity for him to establish himself as a director and screenwriter of (feature-length) films. The basic idea for the film came to McDonagh after he himself had spent a few days in Bruges and found the city fascinating on the one hand due to the historical city center , but on the other hand boring.
These opposing impressions initially led to the creation of the two characters Ray and Ken, who each stand for one of these impressions: Ken is deeply concerned with the sights, Ray is bored. The next step, McDonagh said, was to develop a plot that would justify the characters' stay in Bruges. The film was shot on location in Bruges in February and March 2007.
With an estimated production cost of $ 15 million, the film grossed around $ 33 million in theaters around the world, including around $ 9.6 million in the UK, $ 7.8 million in US and US 2 theaters .5 million US dollars in Germany. The film premiered on January 17, 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival . The theatrical release in the USA (with only limited release) was on February 8, 2008, in Great Britain on April 18, 2008 and in Germany on May 15, 2008. The DVD release was in Germany on November 24, 2008.
The film contains numerous references and quotations from other films and works of art. The long-awaited call from Harry is staged in a six minute long sequence . As a reference to this stylistic feature, the beginning of In the Signs of Evil by Orson Welles can be seen on a television in the background , which was also staged in a long, uncut tracking shot.
In Groeningemuseum Ray like only a painting by Hieronymus Bosch . Ken explains to him that it is a representation of the Last Judgment . Some of the bizarre characters from the painting reappear as actors in disguise in the film with Chloë and Jimmy in Bruges, before Ray is gunned down. According to Chloë, this film is a bow to When the gondolas are in mourning . He is alluded to several times in the rest of the staging, among other things with the figure of the stunted Jimmy and the Bruges canals used by barges.
The first time Ray and Chloë meet on the night street on the fringes of filming, Ray mentions the suicide of the diminutive actor Hervé Villechaize , who starred in the 1993 American television series Fantasy Island . In conversations with Chloë and Jimmy, Ray makes several references to the film Time Bandits by Terry Gilliam , in which the main roles are also predominantly occupied by small people and whose actor David Rappaport also committed suicide.
The German film title Bruges see ... and die? can be seen as an allusion to the Italian proverb “see Naples and die” (Italian “ Vedi Napoli e poi muori ”).
synchronization
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and directed by Marius Clarén at the Elektrofilm GmbH in Berlin.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ray | Colin Farrell | Florian Halm |
| Ken Daley | Brendan Gleeson | Roland Hemmo |
| Harry Walters | Ralph Fiennes | Udo Schenk |
| Chloë Villette | Clémence Poésy | Marie Bierstedt |
| Jimmy | Jordan Prentice | Sven Hasper |
| Marie | Thekla Reuten | Anna Carlsson |
| Eirik | Jérémie Renier | Michael Deffert |
| Denise | Anna Madeley | Gundi Eberhard |
| Natalie Waters | Elizabeth Berrington | Christin Marquitan |
| Yuri | Eric Godon | K. Dieter Klebsch |
| Canadian | Željko Ivanek | Thomas Petruo |
| priest | Ciarán Hinds | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
Reviews
“The film has a lot of amusement for the first half hour, churches and museums are visited, but fat Americans are also insulted - but art and culture are always followed by the grouchy face of Ray, who thirsts for cool Belgian beers. [...] Then, however, although you could have looked at this for a longer time, it gets completely wacky. In a positive sense, of course. There are suicidal intentions, obscure film shoots in the old town, unsympathetic dwarfs, amorous entanglements, a choleric Ralph Fiennes [...], excessive drug use, great deeds and maybe even something like a happy ending. "
"The killer as a pitiful brooder who gnaws at the past and a guilty conscience: From the cool irony that Quentin Tarantino introduced with ' Pulp Fiction ' in the killer film, with which the murderers shrugged blood from their sunglasses and the audience the gruesome assassination laughs away, there's nothing left here. Apart from the fact that [...] simply too little is murdered in order to distance oneself from it afterwards with affective indifference, the characters are not a bit overdrawn, neither machines nor cool pigs. You only see normal men here, which also means: They take themselves and their worries too seriously. That doesn't mean good for the films. If you force melancholy killers to twiddle their thumbs in a picturesque setting, there is little entertaining left. "
“'See Bruges ... and die?' is a great little production. The balance between comic and tragic moments is particularly outstanding. "
"The highly originally constructed and narrated gangster film revolves around the themes of honor and loyalty in the form of a black comedy, and thanks to the grandiose setting and the convincing actors it is very entertaining."
Trivia
In one scene, Ken and Ray visit the Jerusalem Church . In the film, however, the impression is given that it is the Basilica of the Holy Blood . The interior of the Belfry in Bruges was recreated for the film in the film studio.
Awards
The film and the two leading actors Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson were nominated for the British Independent Film Award in 2008 and the 2009 Golden Globe Award . Farrell received the Golden Globe for Best Actor in the Comedy / Musical category in January 2009 . Martin McDonagh won the British Academy Film Award in 2009 for his screenplay, which was also nominated for an Oscar in 2009.
Web links
- See Bruges ... and die? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- See Bruges ... and die? atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- See Bruges ... and die? at Metacritic (English)
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ See the certificate of release for Bruges ... and die? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 954 K).
- ↑ See the age rating for Bruges ... and die? Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Bonus material from the German DVD release: Interview with director Martin McDonagh
- ↑ budget
- ↑ Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Wael Khairy: Film Analysis: Martin McDonagh's “In Bruges”. In: The Cinephile Fix. September 30, 2011, accessed on January 6, 2017 (English): “The arrival of the phone call is the film's climatic moment. The scene comes in the form of a six minute long take. Ken is sitting in his hotel room and the famous opening shots of "Touch of Evil" can be seen on television in a nice reference. "
- ^ Lexicon of proverbial sayings: Naples, p. 1, digital library, Volume 42: Lexicon of proverbial sayings, p. 4316; Röhrich-LdspR Volume 3, p. 1086
- ↑ See Bruges ... and die? In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ^ Film review by Daniel Windheuser
- ^ Film review by Jan Kedves
- ^ Film review by Rudolf Inderst
- ↑ See Bruges ... and die? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 25, 2017 .
- ↑ See Bruges ... and die? The world of locations; Filmtourismus.de. Retrieved January 26, 2017
- ↑ a b c Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database