Liz in September

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Movie
German title Liz in September
Original title Liz en Septiembre
Country of production Venezuela
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2014
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Fina Torres
script Fina Torres,
Jane Chambers
production Liz Mago Bosch , Judy Miller ,
Laura Oramas , Matt Cooper , Fina Torres
music Oleg "Heinali" Shpudeiko ,
Javier Blanco ,
Ulises Hadjis ,
Sharon Smith
camera Celiana Cárdenas ,
Rodrigo Pulpeiro ,
Gerard Uzcategui
cut Aleshka Ferrero
occupation

Liz in September (original title Liz en Septiembre ) is a Venezuelan film drama directed by Fina Torres from 2014 with Patricia Velásquez in the title role. The film was announced as the first Spanish language film to focus on lesbian love when it came out. Velásquez explained that she only became aware of this while filming.

action

Liz, a former model , gets every woman in bed, but she can't fall in love. Once a year she meets with her friends in a hotel by the sea to celebrate her birthday. But this time everything is different. Liz is seriously ill but too proud to speak of her fears. When the attractive and apparently straight Eva ends up with the women after a car breakdown, Liz bets that she can seduce her too. Soon she takes Eva with her for diving and drives with her tightly embraced on the motorcycle into the sunset. Your game seems to be working this time too. Until she realizes that there is more to Eva than just physical attraction. However, Eva has just found out the worst that can happen to a mother. She has lost her little son Tommy, who is suffering from cancer, and in this already difficult situation suspects that her husband is cheating on her. Only her close friend Dolores, a prominent doctor with whom Liz had a love affair, knows that Liz, who believed she had conquered cancer, also got it again. Dolores has arrived with her new, much younger friend Coqui. Resort cook Any and fun-loving, sporty Alex have been a couple for a long time.

On the night of her 37th birthday, Liz collapses and learns in the hospital that she only has a few months to live. She bravely tries to get her fear under control, hoping that she has dug so deep into the hearts of her friends that something of her remains. Some time later Eva tells her that she is pregnant again and that the child, who is a girl, will be named after her. After Liz dies, her friends talk about her while playing cards, while Eva, who has since had her little Lizzy, bathes in the sea with her daughter.

production

Production notes, background

The film was produced by Ararare Films. World sales took place through the Cinema Management Group. The film was shot in Morrocoy National Park in the Venezuelan state of Falcón .

The film is based on the American theater classic Last Summer at Bluefish Cove (1980) by Jane Chambers, which is considered to be one of the first dramas in which lesbian love was openly discussed.

publication

The still unfinished film was presented in the United States in March 2013 at the Miami International Film Festival . It premiered on October 3, 2014 in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. It was screened on April 25, 2015 at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in the USA and on June 29, 2015 at the Frameline Film Festival in the United States. On October 24, 2015, he was presented at the Ottawa LGBT Film Festival in Canada. On January 5, 2016, he was one of the entries at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in the USA. It was also published in Denmark under the title Liz i september and in Russia under the title Лис в сентябре .

The German DVD start of the film was on April 28, 2016. Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH released the film in Spanish with German subtitles.

reception

criticism

The DVD says: “In a Caribbean beach idyll, the Venezuelan director Fina Torres carefully and with great sensuality develops a multi-layered drama about friendship, love and sadness. Actress and model Patricia Velásquez (The L-Word) plays Liz as an irresistible seductress, whose emotional armor is gradually beginning to crumble. [...] A moving late summer film for every season. "

In the film industry's magazine The Hollywood Reporter it was read: “A film about the healing effects of real female friendship.” It is also stated that Liz has what a melodrama is all about in September , with Torres maintaining the standard and never being maudlin. Cameraman Celiana Cardenas immersed the postcard-ready environment in a light blue, rich green and delicate gold, which supports the emotional upheaval. With this film, after her debut film Oriana, Torres once again proved that the wheel doesn't always have to be reinvented.

Daniela Costa from AfterEllen said: “A rousing love story. This film doesn't leave you anytime soon. ”The story is deep, funny and full of great performances.

Variety rated the film positively, although the template had been modified and predicted that this beautiful romantic drama would become a crowd-pleaser among lesbians and in various other formats. In the film there is a touch of glamorous soap opera, it was said.

In El Nacional it was said that the weakness of the script caused the story to lose its strength. It praised Torres' attention to the aesthetics of the film. Both Escobar and Mimí Lazo, Arlette Torres, María Luisa Flores and the Cuban Dannay García would support most of the plot with their acting skills. With Patricia Velásquez you can see the intention to present the role of Liz, a strong woman who is masculine, but who needs a partner who supports her. On the other hand, there is no doubt about Eloisa Maturén's role as Eva, whose face captivates on the screen, even though her inexperience affects the important moments of the film.

Thomas van den Berg from Cinemagazine said the film was a beautiful Venezuelan production with equally beautiful morals and excellent actresses. The film exudes what it should, but doesn't have the effect it should probably have.

For Roxanne von Filmgeek , Liz in September is a beautiful, emotional film with a number of rather intense moments. Being sick of not wanting to live anymore and yet enjoying the time you have with people you love are things that would make this film an absolute must for viewers of a good drama film.

The rating on the Let the Movie Move us page was consistently positive, the film was absolutely unique, full of drama and with an ending that could not have been imagined. We are talking about a charming and sensual Venezuelan film in which the viewer is sent on a wonderful journey. Torres' film is full of laughs, stories, beautiful performances and images that are tailored to the story being told from start to finish. It is a film that you can still think about after the end.

Awards (selection)

Miami Film Festival

  • Miami Encuentros Award nomination for Fina Torres

Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2015

  • Winner of the Audience Award in the “Best Film” category, Wolfe Releasing and for Eloisa Maturen

Palm Springs International Film Festival 2016

  • Nomination for the Audience Award in the category “Best Narration” for Fina Torres, Venezuela

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Liz in September . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 158409 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ A b Elizabeth Kerr: "Liz in September": Filmart Review In: The Hollywood Reporter , March 30, 2015 (English).
    Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Patricia Velasquez, Eloisa Maturen, Mimi Lazo, Danay Garcia, Arlette Torres, Fina Torres In: "Liz In September"
    see page Amazon.de
  4. ↑ Liz in September Fig. DVD case
  5. ↑ Liz in September review of the film see page orellfuessli.ch
  6. ^ Daniela Costa: Patricia Velasquez captivates in "Liz in September" see page AfterEllen, May 18, 2015 (English).
    Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Dennis Harvey: Film Review: "Liz in September" In: Variety , January 20, 2016 (English). Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  8. ↑ Sergio Moreno González: Las decisionses de Liz en septiembre In: El Nacional , October 3, 2014 (Spanish).
    Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  9. ↑ Thomas van den Berg: Liz in September - Liz en Septiembre (2014) see page cinemagazine.nl (Dutch).
    Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  10. ↑ Recensie: Liz in September see page filmgeek.nl (Dutch). Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  11. ↑ Ulkar Alakbarova: LGBT Film Festival 2015: Liz in September (Liz en Septiembere) 2014. In: moviemovesme.com . May 31, 2015, accessed May 19, 2020.