In the bedroom

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Movie
German title In the bedroom
Original title In the bedroom
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Todd Field
script Todd Field,
Robert Festinger
Andre Dubus (novel)
production Todd Field,
Ross Katz ,
Graham Leader
music Thomas Newman
camera Antonio Calvache
cut Frank Reynolds
occupation

In the Bedroom is a movie of the US director Todd Field from the year 2001 . It is considered an independent film . The drama is based on the short story Killings by the American writer Andre Dubus , who died in 1999. The film is dedicated to him. The location where the story takes place is fictional, but can be geographically assigned to the southern coastal area of ​​the US state of Maine and the city of Camden . The film faithfully reproduces the style, dialect and social habits of that region.

action

The middle-class Fowler family lives in tranquil Camden. Father Matt is a general practitioner, mother Ruth is a music teacher in high school and has a weakness for Eastern European choral songs. Her only son Frank would like to study architecture, but before that he still works as a lobster fisherman and therefore spends the summer with his parents in New England . Nothing seems to be able to tarnish the idyllic life of the Fowlers. Frank got involved in a love affair with an older, married mother, Natalie, during the summer. Ruth in particular is skeptical about their affair, but Frank feels free to make decisions, and he also gets along well with his girlfriend's two little boys. Natalie lives apart from her violent husband Richard and wants a divorce, but he wants a new beginning with her and his children.

When Frank tries to protect Natalie and her children from Richard, the situation escalates and Frank is shot dead from Richard's gun. Richard is arrested. At the preliminary hearing that took place shortly afterwards, however, he was released on bail, since the indictment, due to the lack of eyewitnesses - Natalie had only heard the shot - was only manslaughter, and an accident in the scramble cannot be ruled out with certainty. This is a shock for the dead Frank's parents, who, like Natalie, are convinced of Richard's guilt, especially since he had attacked Frank once before. Ruth, who loved her son very much, falls into a depressed mood. This turns into cold anger when, after a while, she runs into her son's murderer at large in a grocery store in town. Matt Fowler, on the other hand, tries to get things back to normal quickly. He also asks about the condition of Natalie, who feels responsible for the death of her friend and also feels a great loss, but cannot share it with the Fowlers. When Natalie tries to talk to Ruth, she lets out her anger on her and hits her.

The Fowler couple are emotionally cold due to the different ways in which what happened. In a violent argument, the entire frustration of both, who are comforting in each other's arms at the end of their argument, is discharged. Matt, who sees a small sentence from the perpetrator and the complete destruction of his family coming, now decides to act on his own. He kidnaps Richard at gunpoint after he has finished working at night and gives him sober instructions. He drives home with him, lets him pack his bags and tells the kidnapped kidnapper that he is leaving the city by plane. Matt then directs Richard along lonely forest roads into a remote hunting area. Richard is suspicious, but calms down when, at the end of the journey, he sees a friend of Matt's, whom he also knows. Suddenly, however, Matt shoots his son's murderer in cold blood. The two friends had planned the murder and are now burying Richard's body in the woods.

In the morning hours, Matt Fowler returns to his wife Ruth, who is waiting for him with the question: "Did you do it?"

interpretation

For two months, director, actor, and screenwriter Todd Field (starred as Nick Nightingale in Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut ) shot this small independent film, which cost only 1.7 million US dollars to produce and more than seventeen times that played again. The drama, which is more oriented towards European cinema, is characterized by long, calm camera positions, the soundtrack is pleasantly reserved. The characters have several options to change the course of the plot in advance, but do not do so for fear of social exposure. With an unmasking look, director Todd Field portrays how the idyllic small town is haunted by normal madness, how the mourners are plunged into a chaos of emotions, alienated and try in different ways to cope with their pain.

Reviews

  • “What starts out innocently enough in Todd Field's powerful drama evolves into a haunting study of people in a small town plagued by a series of tragedies. Outstanding in this dark and strong film are the performances - especially Sissy Spacek has never been better in her career. "( Blickpunkt: Film )
  • "Gripping drama about a small town family that is torn apart by a tragedy." (DVD & Video Report)
  • "An excellently played intimate study of the abysses of an existence from which the center was suddenly torn." ( Film-dienst )
  • "Full of magical moments that won't go out of your head even days later." (Der Spiegel)
  • “The dialogue-heavy, excellently illustrated and extremely intelligent drama is one of the best that US independent cinema has produced in recent years. Because of the cumbersome topic, however, only fans of sophisticated mental cinema will probably access it. "(VideoWoche)

Remarks

  • In a scene that was not included in the final film version of In the Bedroom , Ruth and Matt watch the film Barry Lyndon in a cinema. This was intended as a tribute to Stanley Kubrick, who director Todd Field worked with as an actor in Eyes Wide Shut in 1999.
  • After Ruth's son dies, Natalie visits her school. Natalie tries to apologize to Ruth, but she reacts with physical violence and blatantly hits her counterpart in the face. This scene was shot fifteen times, the first take was used for the final version of the film.
  • Many of the products used by the characters in the film are genuine local products that can be found on the Atlantic coast of Maine, such as Oakhurst brand milk.
  • Father McCasslin's words at the funeral are the first five lines from chapter 25 of the Book of the Dead in Khalil Gibran's The Prophet .
  • Sissy Spacek set up the house in which her film character Ruth lives herself.
  • The poems recited during the poker round are William Blake's Auguries of Innocence and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's My Lost Youth.

Awards

In the Bedroom won numerous festival awards and was nominated for a total of five Academy Awards in 2002, but couldn't win any. The nominations were in the categories of Best Film , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Actress ( Sissy Spacek ), Best Actor ( Tom Wilkinson ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Marisa Tomei ). Leading actress Sissy Spacek was also awarded the Golden Globe for best leading actress in a drama.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for In the Bedroom . Youth Media Commission , accessed on January 8, 2018 .