Love the hard way
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love the hard way |
| Original title | Love the hard way |
| Country of production |
United States , Germany |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Very |
| script |
Marie Noëlle , Peter Sehr |
| production | Wolfram Tichy |
| music | Dahoud Darien |
| camera | Guy Dufaux |
| cut | Christian Nauheimer |
| occupation | |
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Love the Hard Way (German reference: Love the Hard Way - breathless in New York ) is an American drama directed by Peter Sehr from 2001 . Adrien Brody plays the leading role .
action
The petty crook Jack is a member of a gang that defrauds wealthy people. He enjoys reading books and dreams of a career as a writer.
One day he meets Claire, a Columbia University student who fascinates him. It also exerts a strong attraction on women. Jack is afraid of the committed relationship. When Claire goes away for a few weeks, Jack cheats on her with Pamela and is caught by Claire after the unexpected return.
Claire is thrown off course, she dedicates herself to prostitution. Jack realizes that he loves Claire. In one of the fraud attempts, Jack and his accomplice Charlie are arrested. They are sentenced to several years in prison. Claire cuts her wrists, the police find her and save her at the last minute.
Jack gets into a brawl in prison, is seriously injured and later parole. Back in the wild, he meets Claire.
Reviews
“An attempted film adaptation of a Chinese underground novel that reproduces the criminal underworld of New York as a fictional decal, but does not know how to convince emotionally. Since the character drawing of the people is not convincing, only an attached outsider myth is confirmed. "
Ty Burr praised the portrayal of Adrien Brody in The Boston Globe on July 11, 2003 and criticized Charlotte Ayanna's play and the final scenes of the film.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of June 27, 2003 that Adrien Brody would be very well cast in the role of Jack, even better than in the role of Władysław Szpilman in The Pianist . Ebert described the debauchery that Claire indulged in after breaking up with Jack as self-punishment. He wrote that he would have expected her more in a French film than in an American flick. He criticized the portrayal of Pam Grier as strange and artificial, the film ending as unsuccessful.
Ulrich Behrens praised the portrayals of Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, August Diehl and Jon Seda as well as Pam Grier's screen presence on the website www.filmstarts.de. He wrote that the film fascinated him.
Awards
Peter Sehr won the 2001 Silver Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Leopard . He also won the Bavarian Film Prize in 2002 .
Adrien Brody and Charlotte Ayanna each won a prize at the French Festival International du Film d'Action et d'Aventure in 2002.
Web links
- Love the Hard Way in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love the Hard Way at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Love the Hard Way at Metacritic (English)
- Love the Hard Way on www.filmz.de
- Love the Hard Way on www.filmstarts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Love the Hard Way. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: Love the Hard Way. In: RogerEbert.com. June 27, 2003, accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ^ Ulrich Behrens: Love the hard way - breathless in New York. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved December 7, 2017 .