Long live Ned Devine!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Long live Ned Devine! |
| Original title | Waking Ned |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kirk Jones |
| script | Kirk Jones |
| production |
Richard Holmes , Alexandre Heylen |
| music | Shaun Davey |
| camera | Henry Braham |
| cut | Alan Strachan |
| occupation | |
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Long live Ned Devine! is a British-Irish film comedy from 1998 in which a small Irish village pretends to live on a deceased lottery winner in order not to let the prize lapse.
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In the Irish village of Tullymore ( Tulaigh Mhór ) with 52 inhabitants , the jackpot is won in the weekly lottery. Curious, the two old friends Jackie O'Shea and Michael O'Sullivan, together with Jackie's wife Annie, set out to determine the winner, and finally find the old fisherman Ned Devine, who lives in a remote cottage, dead in front of his television, the Winning ticket in hand - apparently died of shock during the drawing. Since it is already late at night, Jackie and Annie decide not to report Ned's death to the village until the following day.
During the night, however, Jackie had a dream in which Ned told him what a feast he would have thrown for all the villagers from his winnings. Inspired by this dream, Jackie and Michael decide against Annie's will to keep Ned's death a secret for the time being and to cash in the lottery win - which would lapse since Ned has no heirs - instead of Ned Devine.
A storm cut the telephone lines to the village the previous night, and the only connection to the outside world is a phone booth on a cliff nearby. From there, Jackie and Michael register their winnings and then rehearse the upcoming conversation with the lottery representative while swimming in the sea, who, however, flown in by helicopter, is already on the beach at the moment and Jackie asks about Ned Devine. Jackie does not react quickly enough to be able to pretend to be Ned as planned, so the honest Michael, hidden behind a rock, has to take it over spontaneously and rushes naked with the motorcycle to Ned's house, while Jackie leads the lottery agent via detours, to give Michael the head start he needs. When the lottery agent announces after the usual formalities that he will make inquiries about Ned in the village, Jackie changes the plan and inaugurates the entire village in order to share the unexpectedly high profit of almost 7 million pounds among everyone.
Everyone, including Annie, agrees - except for the unpopular, grouchy Lizzy Quinn, who postpones her approval until the very end and then demands a higher share, otherwise she reports the fraud. Since the village is still cut off from the outside world and Lizzy, who mostly moves with her electric wheelchair, can hardly call from the phone booth, the others do not take their threat seriously. The lottery agent is finally convinced of the identity of "Neds" and hands over the check.
While the whole village is celebrating, Lizzy Quinn makes her way to the phone booth in her wheelchair to carry out her threat. There, however, there is an absurd traffic accident in which the phone booth and Lizzy Quinn are thrown down the cliff.
A subplot tells the love story of pig farmer Pig Finn and his lover Maggie O'Toole, who lives with her father with her illegitimate son Maurice. She loves Finn, who thinks he's Maurice's father. Between Finn and Maggie, however, stand the pigs, whose smell Maggie can't stand. The profit share enables Finn to give up pig farming and build a life together with Maggie. During the competition, Jackie learns from Maggie that Ned Devine, whom everyone thought had no family, was Maurice's biological father. He then wants to leave the entire profit to her, which she refuses, so as not to have to tell Finn the truth about Maurice: A good father is more important to the boy than money.
Reviews
“An imaginative and fast-paced film debut that always finds the right balance between comedy and melancholy, which celebrates values such as love, friendship and solidarity in a warm and amusing way. Shiny photos, outstanding also the play of the two perfectly harmonizing main actors. "
"The debut film [by Kirk Jones] has wonderful characters and British humor."
"Kirk Jones' comedy" Long Live Ned Devine "never comes across as over the top or silly. He keeps his bizarre figures within the limits of the realistic. [...] The delightful thing about "Long Live Ned Devine" is also the mixture of village cohesion and competition, of selfish and altruistic motives, of deceit and truth, which can be found in reveals to the characters at any time and adds to the comedy of the film. The impressive landscape shots, the equally sensitive Irish music and, last but not least, a macabre showdown in which a telephone booth plays a not inconsiderable role, complete the picture that "Long Live Ned Devine" presents to us. "
"Long Live Ned Devine" is one of the delightful British comedies that the island filmmakers have become famous for in recent years. The loving story is not only carried by the two weird main actors around the age of 70, but also by a great ensemble performance, in which there are many supporting characters to "discover" who can almost grow dear to you in the course of the film. "
Awards
The film won six prizes and was nominated for nine more. The director Kirk Jones was nominated for the BAFTA Award , the Prize of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón and the Chlotrudis Award ; he won the Gilde Film Award in Gold , the New York Comedy Festival Award , the Critique Award of the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Sir Tim Award from the Marco Island Film Festival .
Location
The film was shot in the small town of Cregneash on the southern tip of the Isle of Man . For the film, Cregneash was converted to the fictional Irish town of Tullymore (Tulaigh Mhór).
Trivia
The motorcycle on which Michael drives naked to Ned's house is an MZ ETZ , which was exported in large numbers to the British Isles before the fall of the Wall .
Web links
- Long live Ned Devine! in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Long live Ned Devine! atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Long live Ned Devine! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ TV feature film
- ↑ filmstarts.de
- ↑ moviemaster.de