Lorelei (2020)
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| Original title | Lorelei |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 110 minutes |
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| Director | Sabrina Doyle |
| script | Sabrina Doyle |
| production |
Kevin Chinoy , Jennifer Radzikowski , Francesca Silvestri |
| music | Jeff Russo |
| camera | Stephen couple |
| cut | Daniel Myers |
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Lorelei is a film drama by Sabrina Doyle that was first made available online to Tribeca Film Festival participants on April 15, 2020. In her directorial debut, Doyle tells the story of Wayland, played by Pablo Schreiber , who, after serving a 15-year prison sentence, meets his high school lover Dolores, played by Jena Malone , who now has three children from three different fathers. While Wayland is busy finding her way back to normal life and has to take on the role of a surrogate father for the three children, Dolores sometimes mourns the past life.
action
After Wayland is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence, his old biker gang picks him up. Around the campfire the boys drink beer in the presence of some scantily clad women and shoot around with their guns. The next morning, Wayland is picked up by Pastor Gail and placed for the time being in the basement of an outbuilding of the Coloton Lutheran Church.
One day he meets his high school sweetheart Dolores there, with whom he had a relationship as a teenager until he was incarcerated for armed robbery. Dolores, aka Lorelei or Lola, was an excellent swimmer and even dreamed of participating in the Olympics. Now she is a single mother, because shortly after Wayland went to jail, one unwanted pregnancy followed another and ruined all of her plans. She has three children from three different fathers. Wayland moves in with Dolores and her children. With her youngest son, six-year-old Denim, it seems like he should have been a girl. His brother Dodger, a grumpy teenager, prefers to bench press and smoke pot.
Dolores cleans rooms in a motel to make ends meet, and Wayland gets a job at the local junkyard through his girlfriend Violet. While he is busy finding his way back to normal life and has to take on the role of a surrogate father for the three children, Dolores is sometimes annoyed about the past life that was marked by responsibility for their children, even if it was a lot of beautiful ones Moments were connected. Dolores would have preferred to live in Los Angeles, but never made it out of Oregon.
production
Staff, funding and film title
It acts with Lorelei to the feature film debut of director Sabrina Doyle , who also wrote the screenplay. Doyle wanted to make a film about working class people and show their resilience, inner workings and hidden dreams. She herself grew up in a working class family. In order to find out which character she should pay the most attention to in her film, the native of Britain wrote several different script drafts. She focused on Wayland in one draft, Dolores in another, and the children in a third draft. Regarding the parenting roles in the film in general, the director said: "I have the feeling that we allow fathers to screw it up in the cinema, but mothers are not allowed to." She found it important to show a complex mother figure who, on the one hand, does her job in this role great and very lovingly fulfilled, which at the same time wanted something for herself. She liked that Dolores is, in a way, the antagonist in this movie.
Caitlin Kennedy of Film Inquiry remarks on the reference of the film title to the legendary figure Loreley, who is closely connected to the ancient myth of the nymph Echo, that Dolores acts as a siren song and thus as the center in Wayland's life.
According to the director, Lorelei is a 100 percent independent film that was completely independently financed, according to a film lover named Arnold Zimmerman. She was also supported by grants from Women in Film Los Angeles and The Chimaera Project. In addition to Jennifer Radzikowski , Francesca Silvestri and Kevin Chinoy acted as producers, both of whom have already realized Sean Baker's The Florida Project .
Cast, role names, and filming
Pablo Schreiber took on the role of Wayland, who was just released from prison. Jena Malone plays Dolores, Amelia Borgerding her 12-year-old daughter Periwinkle, Parker Pascoe-Sheppard her six-year-old son Denim and Chancellor Perry the 15-year-old Dodger. For all three young actors it is their first film role. Dolores named her three children after their colors or shades of blue. Periwinkle is a blue-purple indigo shade , dodger blue is an azure blue , and denim is an indigo shade known from the dyeing of jeans. Jon Frosch of The Hollywood Reporter comments on the choice of the name that these are not only a reference to Dolores' free spirit, but also to her love for the sea, which is a symbol of rebirth as a recurring visual theme in the film. Gretchen Corbett as aunt and Trish Egan as pastor Gail can be seen in other roles, who initially supported Wayland a little after his release from prison.
The filming took place from mid-October to mid-November 2018 in Los Angeles , California and Oregon , such as Portland , Clackamas County, Marion County, Multnomah County and Washington County. Stephen Paar acted as cameraman .
publication
The film should celebrate its world premiere in mid-April 2020 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival . One month before the start of the festival, it was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nevertheless, the film was made available online from April 15-26, 2020, the festival's original time slot. In September 2020 it will be shown at the American Film Festival in Deauville.
Awards
- Nomination in the competition
- Nomination for Best Actor in the US Narrative Competition ( Pablo Schreiber )
- Nomination for Best Actress in the US Narrative Competition ( Jena Malone )
- Nomination for Best Cinematography in the US Narrative Competition ( Stephen Paar )
- Nomination for Best New Narrative Filmmaker ( Sabrina Doyle )
- Nomination for best feature film in the US Narrative Competition
- Nomination for the Nora Ephron Prize (Sabrina Doyle)
Web links
- Lorelei in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lorelei in the program of the Tribeca Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jon Frosch: 'Lorelei': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, May 11, 2020.
- ^ A b c Caitlin Kennedy: Lorelei: A "For Better Or For Worse" Love Story. In: filminquiry.com, May 8, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Stephen Saito: Tribeca 2020 Review: An Ex-Con Can't Just Pick Up Where Life Left Off in Sabrina Doyle's Lovely Drama "Lorelei". In: moveablefest.com, April 25, 2020.
- ↑ a b Meghan Gheron: Tribeca 2020 Women Directors: Meet Sabrina Doyle - "Lorelei". In: womenandhollywood.com, May 5, 2020.
- ^ A b Zach D'Amico: Interview: Writer-Director Sabrina Doyle. In: roughcutcinema.com, May 10, 2020.
- ↑ a b Amanda N'Duka: Jena Malone & Pablo Schreiber Star In 'Lorelei' From 'The Florida Project' Producers. In: deadline.com, February 13, 2019.
- ↑ #OregonMade: "Lorelei" to Premiere at Tribeca. In: oregonconfluence.com, March 4, 2020.
- ↑ Lorelei. In: tribecafilm.com. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ↑ Marc Malkin: Tribeca Film Festival Postponed Due to Coronavirus. In: Variety, March 12, 2020.
- ^ Hilary Lewis and Trilby Beresford: Tribeca Film Festival to Debut Online Programming as Films Are Judged Remotely. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 3, 2020.
- ^ Vassilis Economou: The 19th Tribeca Film Festival is postponed. In: cineuropa.org, April 14, 2020.
- ↑ Lorelei. In: festival-deauville.com. Retrieved July 29, 2020.