La Gomera (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | La Gomera |
| Original title | La Gomera |
| Country of production | Romania |
| original language | Romanian |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Corneliu Porumboiu |
| script | Corneliu Porumboiu |
| production |
Patricia Poienaru , Marcela Ursu |
| camera | Tudor Mircea |
| cut | Roxana Szel |
| occupation | |
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La Gomera , or alternatively also La Gomera - Verpfiffen und Betriffen , (original title La Gomera , international English title The Whistlers ) is a Romanian gangster comedy film by Corneliu Porumboiu .
action
The Bucharest policeman Cristi is ordered to the Canary Islands by the Spanish mafia. There he is supposed to learn the whistling language El Silbo in order to get the mattress manufacturer Zsolt out of prison in Romania, who embezzled 30 million euros and is the only one who knows where the money is hidden. But everyone involved is playing a double game and events spiral out of control.
production
The film was shot between February and April 2018 in Bucharest and La Gomera .
The film was produced by the Romanian 42 Km Film , the French Les Films du Worso and the German Accomplices Film GmbH .
The film was first on 18 May 2019 the Cannes Film Festival shown in France, following on another film festival, the Transilvania International Film Festival , the Sydney Film Festival , the Munich Film Festival , the New Horizons and the Toronto International Film Festival before the theatrical release in Romania took place on September 13, 2019. The film opened in cinemas in Germany and Austria on February 13, 2020.
reception
The film has received praise from many sources, 25 out of 28 reviews on Metacritic are positive and the film has a score of 76/100. Prism writes:
“ La Gomera is a fascinating interplay between beauty and death, between addictions and brutality. The fact that the film does not take itself too seriously makes the quiet gangster comedy a relaxed and very playful cinematic pleasure. "
The lexicon of international films judges:
"The artfully nested and a-chronologically structured gangster film plays with relish with genre conventions of film noir and neo-noir, whereby it becomes deliberately more opaque and ambiguous with each further flashback, which is a great cinephile pleasure."
The Washington Post gives the film 4 out of 4 stars and praises:
“The Romanian crime drama The Whistlers includes elements that could have been plucked from almost any Tarantino-esque bloodbath. But coming from director Corneliu Porumboiu, […] it is a drastic - and exciting - departure from expectations. "
“The Romanian crime drama La Gomera contains elements that could have been taken from almost any Tarantino-like bloodbath. But coming from director Corneliu Porumboiu, [...] it's a drastic - and exciting - departure from expectations. "
Web links
- La Gomera in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- La Gomera in the Lexicon of International Films
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for La Gomera . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 192924 / K).
- ↑ Director Corneliu Porumboiu shoots new film in Romania, Spain. In: Romania Insider. March 7, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ^ La Gomera at crew united
- ↑ La Gomera at Metacritic (English)
- ↑ Andreas Fischer: Nobody here is innocent. In: Prism. Retrieved August 13, 2020 .
- ↑ La Gomera. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed on August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Pat Padua: 'The Whistlers' is a great action thriller (but also rich with deeper meaning). In: The Washington Post. March 25, 2020, accessed August 14, 2020 .