Intermission (film)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Intermission
Original title Intermission
Country of production Ireland / GB
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Crowley
script Mark O'Rowe
production Neil Jordan , Alan Moloney , Stephen Woolley
music John Murphy
camera Ryszard Lenczewski
cut Lucia Zucchetti
occupation

Intermission is an Irish-British film comedy by John Crowley from the year 2003 . Colin Farrell plays one of the leading roles .

action

The gangster Lehiff often commits small crimes and coups. Even at the beginning of the film, he flirts with a waitress in the café, distracts her attention, beats her up and steals the cash from the till.

John works as a temporary worker in a supermarket under the unpleasant store manager, Mr. Henderson. He lives with Deirdre, who leaves him. He and his friend frequent a singles bar, which, to his disappointment, appears to be reserved for the older generation. Chaots steal the company car from the reactionary policeman and amateur boxer Lynch and burn it down together with the beloved Clannad CDs, which leaves him angry. John wants to win back his girlfriend, who is now with the bank manager Sam. He joins Lehiff's plan to kidnap Sam, take Deirdre hostage, and force him to rob his own bank branch. Mike, who has just lost his bus driver job , helps (his fully occupied bus overturned after throwing a BMX angel). But then Sam is attacked on the street by his ex-wife Noeleen; John, Lehiff and Mick, all masked, flee without the money. Sally, Deirdre's sister, realizes after lengthy debates that she must do something about her lady's beard in order to appear on television regarding the accident. Lynch with a TV reporter attached, who is about to shoot an action documentary soap about fighting crime in the slums of Dublin - against the will of the program manager, but actually hit a hard bone - shoots his old friend Lehiff, becomes himself seriously injured and given an artificial anus . Sam goes back to his sadistic wife. As is so often the case in the car, the supermarket boss Henderson is studying his lecture notes when he is thrown a stone on the windshield.

Reviews

  • Ruthe Stein praised the "rich" script and characters in the San Francisco Chronicle , each of whom "deserve their own films".
  • Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the comedy was boring and uninspired. He criticized the script.
  • Prisma-online.de wrote that the comedy was “ fast-paced ” and praised the camera work and the “convincing” presentations.
  • Lexicon of international film : "The ambitious ensemble film wants to get to the bottom of the supposed coincidences of daily life and offers sophisticated entertainment in laconic staging."

Awards

Colin Farrell was nominated for the 2004 European Film Awards. John Crowley won a Galway Film Fleadh Award in 2003 and the British Independent Film Award in 2004 . Patrick Condren was nominated for the Taurus Award in 2004. The film won the IFTA Award in four categories - including John Crowley for directing and Mark O'Rowe for the script - and was nominated for the award in eight other categories.

background

The shooting took place in Dublin . The production amounted to an estimated 5 million US dollars .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruthe Stein: Critique. In: San Francisco Chronicle , March 26, 2004
  2. ↑ Kevin Thomas: Criticism. In: Los Angeles Times , March 19, 2004
  3. ↑ Prism online on Intermission
  4. ↑ Intermission. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used