Love and other cruelties
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love and other cruelties |
| Original title | Love and Human Remains |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Denys Arcand |
| script | Brad Fraser |
| production |
Roger Frappier Richard Lalonde Pierre Latour Peter Sussman |
| music | John McCarthy |
| camera | Paul Sarossy |
| cut | Alain Baril |
| occupation | |
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Love and other cruelties (Original title: Love and Human Remains ) is a Canadian relationship film by director Denys Arcand from 1993 . The main role played Thomas Gibson .
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David used to be with Candy. He's gay now , but they still live together. He gave up acting and is now a waiter. Candy gets involved with the lesbian Jerri and then with the bartender Robert, who also leads a turbulent love life. The young assistant waiter Kane is in love with David. The noble call girl Benita, a friend of David, plays sadomasochism games with her customers . All characters have sex adventures and are unsuccessfully looking for a partner who realizes all the ideals they are looking for, who they can love and who will love them again. Amid different variations of sex and love - regardless of the gender of the other person - murders of young girls occur. Bernie, a friend of David, leads a seemingly staid life as a civil servant until his violence against women comes to light. He turns out to be the murderer of women and jumps from a high-rise building to his death before David's eyes. David makes a fresh start and auditions for a role. He, Candy and Kane, who is being promoted to waiter, are there for each other.
Reviews
- According to Cinema , the film is a "single comedy with a dramatic touch" , a " dark comedy about Canadian city wrecks in the AIDS-ridden nineties" , a "cynical comedy about the single boom and the associated frustration in relationships " and the "view of that The love life of the 90s is funny and cruel at the same time. "
- Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on June 23, 1995 : "If the story is eventually absurd, then, the characters aren't."
- Prisma said: “Denys Arcand (' Fall of the American Empire ', ' Jesus of Montreal ') staged an atmospherically dense and psychologically gripping puzzle about the fall of single culture. He brilliantly balances the dark, laconic and tragicomic facets of the story. Excellent dialogues and gripping suspense give the story the finishing touch. "
- Günter H.Jekubzik described the film on www.filmtabs.de as “wonderfully comedic and embarrassing” and “mediocre” .
Awards
- 1994: Brad Fraser won a Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
- 1994: Nominations for Genie Awards received:
- Matthew Ferguson for Best Supporting Actor,
- Mia Kirshner for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role,
- Joanne Vannicola for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.
Background information
The film is based on the play Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love or love and other atrocities (English. Original title Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love ) by Brad Fraser. In Germany, too, there were some highly acclaimed productions and the like. a. at the Studiobühne Siegen (director: Jürgen Kühnel) or with the theater group lila in Ansbach (director: Thorsten Siebenhaar).
The location was Montréal . The box office in the US was just over $ 950,000.
The film was shown in German cinemas in March 1995. Since January 1996 there have been VHS cassettes with a length of approx. 100 minutes and the soundtrack for the film. German-language DVDs will be released on December 7, 2006. There were also television broadcasts. English DVDs of this film have been released in the UK.
Web links
- Love and Human Remains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love and Human Remains at Rotten Tomatoes (English)