Lars and the women
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lars and the women |
| Original title | Lars and the Real Girl |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | Cinema: 106 minutes DVD: 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Craig Gillespie |
| script | Nancy Oliver |
| production |
Sarah Aubrey John Cameron Sidney Kimmel |
| music | David Torn |
| camera | Adam Kimmel |
| cut | Tatiana S. Riegel |
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Lars and the Women (Original title: Lars and the Real Girl ) is a tragic comedy from 2007 directed by Craig Gillespie with Ryan Gosling in the lead role.
action
Lars Lindstrom lives in a small town in the north of the USA and lives in the converted garage of the house that he and his brother inherited from his father. Lars' mother died while giving birth. His brother Gus lives in the house with his wife Karin, who is expecting their first child. The shy loner lives withdrawn and avoids contact with people. Even when the new colleague Margo shows interest in Lars, he leaves her standing without a word. He even refuses to accept the invitations from Karin and his brother.
After a colleague's advice, he ordered a lifelike doll on the Internet , which he later introduced to Gus and Karin as his new Internet acquaintance, Bianca, a religious woman from Brazil who was sitting in a wheelchair. He talks to the doll and treats it like a real person. This worries Gus and Karin so much that they immediately make an appointment with their general practitioner Dagmar, who is also a psychologist. Dagmar explains to them that Lars is delusional and that he would deal with problems from his past.
Under the pretext that Bianca has an illness that requires regular treatment, Dagmar has Bianca and Lars come to her practice every week, where she tries to take away his fear of social contact. The townspeople react in astonishment at first, but increasingly play along and soon treat Bianca like a full member of the community. Bianca helps out at the local hospital and reads from a book in kindergarten - in fact, a tape recorder that lies on her knees does this.
As a result, Lars opens up more and more to the people around him, while his relationship with Bianca deteriorates. While at work, he gets closer to his colleague Margo and goes bowling with her one evening.
One morning Lars discovers Bianca's unconscious body. At the hospital, he tells Karin and Gus that Bianca is dying. Lars' neighbors and co-workers take a great interest in her illness, give her flowers and gifts and comfort Lars. Bianca eventually succumbs to her illness and friends and residents of the city come to her funeral.
After the funeral, Lars asked Margo to go for a walk with him.
background
- The cost of production was estimated at $ 12 million. The film grossed around 11.2 million US dollars in cinemas around the world, including 5.9 million US dollars in the USA and 0.7 million US dollars in Germany.
- Filming began in November 2006. The film was shot at various locations in Ontario .
- The film premiered on September 10, 2007 as part of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival . The cinema release in the USA (with restricted release) was on October 12, 2007, in Germany on March 13, 2008.
Reviews
“The beauty of this feature film debut from commercial director Craig Gillespie and Oscar nominated writer Nancy Oliver ( Six Feet Under ) is that the whole place literally plays along. [...] It could have gone on happily, but the film is too rabid to really turn the civil order upside down. Or to really spark off the platonic love of a sex toy for an evil parable about the role-play games of average married life or the projections of great love. Lars and the women do not reach for the utopian. No unlimited imagination, no anarchic parallel universe, no free love is celebrated here. Dear Lars does not even make use of Bianca's actual destiny. Nevertheless, a therapeutic control must accompany the harmless staging and its initiator. This is what the script's decency code, which resumes at a very early stage, wants it - after all the unbridled joy at the slipperiness of the basic idea. "
“In classical psychoanalysis it is sometimes said that the person behind the couch is just a dummy; the patients actually do everything with themselves. In Lars und die Frauen , Bianca is the dummy: the doll helps the shy man to come into indirect contact with the world. Craig Gillespie (based on a screenplay by Nancy Oliver) tells how this approach to reality takes place step by step and over quite a few strange situations without any false tones. "
“The comical and moving answers that people in the small town find open up a philosophical dimension to the film. To be tolerant is only to accept a deviation in your own world. To elect the 'real girl' to the church council or to use it as a reader means to allow an unknown universe in addition to one's own imagination. Incidentally, the fabulous listener Bianca acts as a catalyst and makes the family's complex feelings of guilt dance. "
Awards
- For the 2008 Academy Awards , Nancy Oliver was nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
- At the 2008 Golden Globe Awards , Ryan Gosling was nominated for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical .
- At the ceremony the Satellite Awards 2007 Ryan Gosling won in the category Best Actor (Comedy / Musical) . The film was nominated in three other categories: Best Actress - Comedy / Musical (Emily Mortimer), Best Original Screenplay and Best Film - Comedy / Musical .
- Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award: Emily Mortimer nominated for Best Supporting Actress
- Detroit Film Critics Society: Emily Mortimer nominated for Best Supporting Actress
Web links
- Lars and the Real Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lars and the women in the dictionary of international films