Long Day's Journey into Night (film)

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Movie
Original title Long Day's Journey into Night
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 174 minutes
Rod
Director Sidney Lumet
script Eugene O'Neill
production Ely A. Landau ,
Joseph E. Levine ,
Jack J. Dreyfus Jr.
music André Previn
camera Boris Kaufman
cut Ralph Rosenblum
occupation

Long Day's Journey into Night is an American literary film adaptation directed by Sidney Lumet from 1962. It is based on the 1956 posthumously published play A Long Day's Journey into the Night by the American Nobel Prize winner for literature Eugene O'Neill . The film should not be confused with the English-language film of the same name by director Bi Gan in 2017.

action

The plot follows the play Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill very closely . The setting is the home of the Tyrone family in Connecticut on an August day in 1912. The theater actor James Tyrone's family has broken up: while the three male members of the family suffer from alcohol addiction, the mother Mary is dependent on morphine . The desperate family members reproach each other in a circle of hatred and despair. The tentative, occasional attempts at reconciliation are lost in the family's arguments.

reception

The film is generally rated positively in film reviews today. At the American review portal Rotten Tomatoes , 14 of 15 film critics rated Long Day's Journey into Night positively, giving the film a positive rating of 93%. At the box office at the time, however, the film was not a success. Joseph E. Levine, producer of the film, commented on this by saying that one could not stay afloat in the film business with adaptations of O'Neill. Art films are too risky on the American film market.

Awards

Katharine Hepburn received an Oscar nomination as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress . Furthermore, the ensemble Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards and Dean Stockwell were honored at the 1962 Cannes International Film Festival in the categories of Best Actor and Best Actress . The film itself was nominated for the Golden Palm of Cannes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Körte: in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung No. 19, May 10, 2020
  2. ↑ Long Day's Journey into Night at Rotten Tomatoes
  3. ^ New York Times, December 6, 1963