Jackie - who needs a mother?

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Movie
German title Jackie - who needs a mother?
Original title Jackie
Country of production Netherlands
original language Dutch
English
Publishing year 2012
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Antoinette Beumer
script Marnie Blok
Karin van Holst Pellekaan
production Hans de Weers
Reinout Oerlemans
Maarten Swart
music Melcher Meirmans
Merlijn Snitker
Chrisnanne Wiegel
camera Danny Elsen
cut Marc Bechtold
occupation

The feature film Jackie - Who needs a mother (original title: Jackie ) is a Dutch tragicomedy by director Antoinette Beumer from 2012. Embedded in a classic road movie , the film addresses the network of relationships between two sisters and their mother. The other film characters take on the role of extras.

The actress Holly Hunter - she plays the role of Jackie - is not dubbed in the German version. She speaks English and the text passages are subtitled.

action

Sofie and Daan are 35-year-old dizygoti twin sisters (Sofie is 10 minutes older) who were carried to term by the surrogate mother Jackie. Their fathers are a homosexual couple whose daughters grew up in the Netherlands. The sisters never had contact with their surrogate mother Jackie.

Now they receive a call from a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico , in which they are told that their mother, Jackie, who lives alone, has suffered a complicated broken leg. On the spur of the moment, the sisters travel to New Mexico to look after their unknown mother. Jackie, an old hippie , lives in an old mobile home. Together, the three protagonists set out in their mother's vehicle on their way to a rehabilitation clinic, where Jackie will continue to receive care.

Jackie is unruly and doesn't say a word at first. The dominant Sofie is reserved towards her mother, while her sister Daan is open-minded. On their journey together, the three characters gradually get closer. You get lost in the New Mexico desert and are left with an empty tank. Sofie is bitten by a snake and falls ill. A group of older women motorcyclists (Dykes on Bikes) bail them out.

As the story progresses, life lies become apparent. After Daan accidentally telephones Sofie's employer and becomes abusive, the career woman loses her job and realizes that she is not irreplaceable. In return, Sofie reveals that Daan's desire to have children is a farce . While she plans to artificial insemination with her husband to become a mother, she prevented simultaneously with the pill . Jackie too has to admit that she doesn't know whether some of her life decisions were right, or a missed opportunity, or a wrong path .

When the three women finally found each other, the sisters learn that Jackie both suffers from MS and has a brother who was passed for dead. Together they travel to Jackie's request. Jackie dies after a wonderful last evening together, and it is implied that it is suicide. She leaves her daughters with a letter in which she thanks her supposed daughters for making them their mothers. But she admits that she is not her mother at all, but simply stole her wallet. Her real name is Melissa.

After the funeral ceremony, the sisters take their alleged mother's urn and first throw it into a trash can on the side of the road, but shortly afterwards they recover it and, according to the last wish of the woman they knew as Jackie, scatter the ashes in a canyon. After a call from Daan's husband, Daan throws her cell phone into the canyon, finally getting rid of him. Sofie's employer in the Netherlands wants to win her back, but Sofie cancels.

In one of the last scenes of the film, the sisters watch an elderly woman who is called Jackie by a man shoveling snow. You decide not to get in touch with this repellent-looking woman, but to drive on with the mobile home that Melissa has inherited, free of all old ties.

Scenic details

  • At the beginning of the film, a struggle between Jackie and a male nurse is staged with humor. He tries to put her in a wheelchair against her will.
  • The dominant Sofie fails - when she is walking alone through the desert in search of a gas station - because of a cow that blocks her way. She doesn't dare to pass by, finally throws a small plastic canister awkwardly at the animal and turns back on her way.
  • The scene in which the two sisters scatter Jackie's ashes quotes a similar scene from the movie The Big Lebowski .

criticism

The TV channel Arte comments: "Star-studded road movie about two Dutch twin sisters who grew up with gay adoptive fathers who travel to the USA to accompany their stubborn surrogate mother to a rehab clinic."

The internet portal kunstundfilm.de sums up: “The script comes up with astonishing twists and turns and pleasantly little sentimentality. ... This film not only warms the heart and soul, it just puts you in a good mood. "

The Berliner Zeitung confirms the positive judgment, but sees deficits in the synchronization of the film and adds: "Men, more precisely heterosexual men, do not enjoy a high reputation in Antoinette Beumer's road movie."

Awards (selection)

The production has received several international nominations and awards. She won the Dutch Golden Film award in 2012. In 2013, Antoinette Beumer won the best film award at the Pula Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jackie - Who needs a mother? (No longer available online.) Arte, archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; accessed on February 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Jackie - Who needs a mother? kunstundfilm.de, accessed on February 21, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Jackie - Who needs a mother? Berliner Zeitung, accessed on February 21, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Award (IMDB) (English). IMDB, accessed February 21, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Golden Film Award (IMDB) (English). IMDB, accessed February 21, 2015 .