Seasons of a marriage
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Seasons of a marriage |
| Original title | A change of seasons |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 or 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Lang |
| script |
Erich Segal Ronni Kern Fred Segal |
| production | Martin Ransohoff |
| music | Henry Mancini |
| camera | Philip H. Lathrop |
| cut | Don Zimmerman |
| occupation | |
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Seasons of a marriage (Original title: A Change of Seasons ) is an American comedy film with dramatic elements from 1980 directed by Richard Lang. Shirley MacLaine and Anthony Hopkins star in a couple who have arrived at a difficult time in their marriage . Bo Derek is seen as the college professor's lover.
action
Karen Evans, the wife of college professor Adam Evans, who often shows a certain arrogance, promises her husband on the head that he is having an affair with one of his students, which he admits after initial hesitation. It is passion that connects him to Lindsey, not love, love connects him to her. Loyalty may be a little old-fashioned, replies Adam to Karen's objection, who quietly replies that he married her once, precisely because she was old-fashioned.
When Karen meets the young carpenter Pete Lachapelle, who is supposed to build a bookcase in the Adams house, she is very impressed by the unorthodox young man and spontaneously asks him to share the bed with her. On the one hand, she wants to get back at her husband, but on the other hand, she finds Pete really exciting. When Adam comes home from a business trip, he finds his wife and Pete in a precarious situation. He reacts indignantly, hurt and with a lot of sarcasm at the same time. Karen says she's only doing what he does. She felt horrible, left alone and discarded.
In order to show that you are up to the situation and can deal with it confidently, you even decide to use the holiday home in Vermont for a ski holiday for four. During the drive there, Karen and Pete have a blast, while Adam and Lindsey's car is in a bad mood. Pete proves to be extraordinarily empathetic and not only surprises with his cleverness and his sovereignty, which Adam's arrogant manner repeatedly bounces off. And then he also shows himself to be an excellent fighter when there are disputes in a discotheque.
One night, Karen's and Adam's daughter Kasey comes as a surprise and can hardly believe what she sees. "How can I talk to you about my problems when you are both messed up than I've ever been," she wants to know from her parents. She had a heated argument with her boyfriend Paul, who actually left after asking him to. Pete starts talking to Kasey and tells her about the tragic death of his parents and the equally senseless death of his child and his wife. She should never think the world is normal, that it is exactly what it is, but when she has someone who loves her, then she should hold on to him. Shortly afterwards Paul drives up in a taxi because he couldn't live without Kasey. Pete decided it was time for him to go. He says goodbye to Karen and drives away. Kasey and Paul also decide to go. Karen, Adam, Lindsey and their father Steven, who is now also present, are left alone. Steven takes a liking to Karen and takes her out to dinner. Lindsey realizes from Adam's reaction to it that he never intended to leave Karen and because of that, and because she really loved him, she leaves him. When Karen sees her husband standing so lost outside, she first wants to go to him following an inner impulse, but then decides to go back to Steven.
Production notes and background
The film was shot in Bennington and Wilmington, Vermont . The film was produced by the Guinness Film Group / Fox. It is a Martin Ransohoff production. In the United States, the film was first shown on December 1, 1980. It was released in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 20, 1981. It was shown for the first time in the GDR cinemas on December 3, 1982.
The script for the film comes from Erich Segal, the author of the successful film Love Story . Shortly before the start of the shooting of this film, Bo Derek had finished the film Ten - The Dream Woman , which made her a star after its appearance. The producers of Seasons of a Marriage then built additional, initially unplanned love scenes with Hopkins and Derek into the film, most of which can be seen at the beginning of the film.
- music
Where Do You Catch The Bus For Tomorrow? , sung by Kenny Rankin (music: Henry Mancini, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman )
- DVD
Studio ems GmbH released the film on July 26, 2001 on DVD.
criticism
The lexicon of international film spoke of a “gender comedy with melancholy accents, which at times slips into the fickle. In the picture design rather unoriginal, but played in the dialogues quite funny and spirited ”.
Cinema's verdict was: “Top ensemble, Henry Mancini music, but bland.” Conclusion: “Nostalgic, morose relationship piece.”
For Kino.de, on the other hand, the film is an "amusing erotic comedy with a brilliant cast: Anthony Hopkins, Shirley MacLaine and, above all, Bo Derek".
Web links
- A Change of Seasons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A Change of Seasons at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
- Seasons of a Marriage New Film Program No. 7635
- Seasons of a marriage 2. Synchronized work by DEFA
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Seasons of a Marriage ( Memento from January 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) DVD - video.de
- ↑ Seasons of a Marriage. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Seasons of a marriage at cinema.de (with pictures of the film). Retrieved August 11, 2015.
- ^ Seasons of a marriage at kino.de. Retrieved August 11, 2015.