Killing Me Softly (film)

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Movie
German title Killing Me Softly
Original title Killing Me Softly
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Chen Kaige
script Kara Lindstrom
production Michael Chinich
Joe Medjuck
Lynda Myles
music Patrick Doyle
camera Michael Coulter
cut Jon Gregory
occupation

Killing Me Softly is an American - British thriller directed by Chen Kaige from 2002. The plot is based on a novel by Sean French (Nicci French).

action

The American Alice Loudon lives in London , where she has a good job. She has a boyfriend who she lives with.

On the way to work Loudon accidentally meets the mountaineer Adam, whose girlfriend died in an accident while climbing a glacier. Alice leaves her boyfriend for Adam, whom she hardly knows, and marries the mountaineer. On their wedding night, Alice and Adam go on a hike to a remote hut where they have sex with bondage games. Alice had previously been photographed naked by Adam in a cemetery.

Alice soon receives anonymous messages warning her about Adam. She finds locked letters from a woman to Adam who wrote that she considered the relationship dangerous for her. Adam goes mad when he learns that his wife has read the letters. Alice is also clandestinely conducting research into Adam's past, as they are troubled by the anonymous warnings.

In the course of this research, Alice visits, among other things, the mother of a missing girl, with whom Adam once had a relationship, and whom he once photographed naked in the same place in a cemetery as she herself. She assumes that Adam killed his friends and asks his sister Deborah for help. The women drive together to the cemetery, where they suspect the body of the murdered girl. In the course of the search for the body, Deborah says the woman would not have had to die if she had left Adam, as she advised her to do.

It turns out that Adam had an incestuous relationship with Deborah as a teenager. It was also Deborah who sent the anonymous threatening letters to Alice, warning her about her brother. Deborah later murdered his girlfriends because she had believed since she was a teenager that her brother was "hers". She also wants to kill Alice, but Adam saves her by overpowering Deborah. He also tells his sister that he never heard her, that he did not return her (incestuous) love and that it was just childish things the two had at the time. He and his sister had come to sleep at the exact spot where Deborah had buried the bodies. Alice shoots Adam's sister when she tries to kill Adam. Alice then leaves Adam.

Reviews

  • Mark Adams wrote in the June 11, 2002 Hollywood Reporter that it was a shame that the talented director Kaige Chen had made such a weak script into his first English-language film. The film was conceived as a star vehicle for Heather Graham, whose portrayal Adams praised. Natascha McElhone looks " nice ", but this does not go well with the end of the film. Adams praised the footage of the London locations.
  • The film was described in the lexicon of international film as a “ bitter disappointment ” that was “ mediocre staged ” and largely played in the same way.

background

Filming took place in London and Cumbria . The production of the film cost an estimated 25 million US dollars .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Killing Me Softly ending
  2. ↑ Criticism by Mark Adams  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hollywoodreporter.com  
  3. ↑ Killing Me Softly. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Killing Me Softly
  5. ^ Business Data for Killing Me Softly