Inside America
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Inside America |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Barbara Eder |
| script | Barbara Eder |
| production | Constanze Schumann |
| music | Gerrit miracle |
| camera | Christian Haake |
| cut | Claudia Linzer |
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Inside America is the first feature film by Austrian director Barbara Eder . The seemingly documentary narrative revolves around difficult situations in the lives of six young people in their final year at Homer Hanna High School in Texas. The film characters were all embodied by amateur actors. The film premiered at the Diagonale 2010 in Graz. The Austrian cinema premiere took place in February 2011.
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Young Mexican Manni dreams of a better life as he grapples with gang rivalries and the difficulty of finding a new job without papers. His girlfriend Patty, on the other hand, dreams of starting a family with him and therefore takes it too far with a school assignment. Zuly, who also belongs to the same circle of friends and comes from a difficult family background, lives in a foster family and wants nothing more than to live with her birth mother again. Not everything is going smoothly in the middle class either. Cheerleader Aimee suffers from the pressure of her mother, even if she would like to win the beauty pageant herself. Her friend Carlos, a ROTC student on his way to a military career, cheats on Aimee with a housemaid whom he puts under heavy pressure for fear of negative consequences when he becomes pregnant. And Ricky suffers from being an outsider who fails to make connections. All of these stories come to a head with a dark and dramatic climax. Accompanied by documentary scenes at school, the joint recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance or mandatory drug raids, for example, the film shows a terrifyingly real-looking picture of hopelessness.
Reviews
"The episode film is a different kind of high school film and, in its seriousness, as entertaining as it is interesting."
"... negotiates the fine line between a documentary sensibility and highly dramatized stories."
Prices
2011 Max Ophüls Prize 2011: Special prize of the jury
Web links
- Inside America in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b FM4 cinema premiere: "Inside America" at fm4.orf.at. Retrieved June 8, 2020
- ↑ a b Life on the border at orf.at. Retrieved June 8, 2020
- ↑ Inside America - Film Review at hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved June 8, 2020
- ↑ Constanze Schumann, producer at oe1.orf.at. Retrieved June 8, 2020
- ↑ INSIDE AMERICA wins special prize from the jury in Saarbrücken at austrianfilms.com. Retrieved June 8, 2020