Men are there to be kissed
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Men are there to be kissed |
| Original title | Men |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Zoe Clarke-Williams |
| script |
James Andronica , Karen Black , Zoe Clarke-Williams |
| production | Paul Williams |
| music | Mark Mothersbaugh |
| camera | Susan Helen Emerson |
| cut |
Stephen Eckelberry , Annamaria Szanto |
| occupation | |
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Men are to be kissed ( Men ) is an American film drama by Zoe Clarke-Williams from the year 1997 .
action
Stella, the first-person narrator of the film, lives in New York City with the young, good-natured alcoholic Teo. He has rich parents, which she explains is also the cause of his laziness and drunkenness. Stella wants to be the head chef and is characterized by a great deal of curiosity, especially when it comes to recipes and sex. Since Teo is now impotent, Stella satisfies her sexual needs with changing street acquaintances. She tries to persuade Teo to go into rehab, but Teo refuses. He passed a plane ticket to Los Angeles , which his mother sent him with the request to go into rehab there, to Stella.
Stella takes the chance. She flies to Los Angeles and after a short search finds a job as head chef at George Babbington, the owner of a small restaurant. George, who is unhappily married, not only ensures that her culinary horizons are broadened, but also has occasional sex with her at work. For her part, Stella doesn't love George and is looking for sex again with changing male acquaintances. Her landlady, who believes she is in a relationship with George, accuses her of being a slut. Such behavior is normal for men, but unacceptable for women. Through a phone call from his mother, Stella learns that Teo has since died in New York.
One day the young photographer Frank shows up in the restaurant, who takes pictures of guests and the kitchen staff, supposedly for a magazine. Stella and Frank make an appointment. He gives her an insight into his artistic world of thought and his work, which is not without danger, since he works in a criminal environment in order to get expressive photo motifs. They fall in love with each other. When George - meanwhile abandoned by his wife - proposes to Stella, she refuses and resigns.
Stella moves in with Frank, who wants to introduce her to his friends at a party, all of them female and a panopticon of freaky types, but Stella doesn't really inspire them, especially when she and Frank chase after a bisexual party attendant with clear offers. Stella runs away and spends the night on a hill overlooking Los Angeles. She realizes that she was jealous for the first time. The next morning she returns to Frank and confesses her love for him, which he in turn confesses. With him, Stella can imagine living monogamous and being loyal for the first time.
When Frank photographs a robbery on a liquor store, he is seriously injured by a shot in the stomach and taken to a hospital. Informed by the police, Stella rushes to the hospital, where Frank has to wait for the operation on a couch in the hallway. While Stella talks to him about her feelings for him, Frank dies and cannot be saved even through attempts at resuscitation.
The end of the film shows Stella, who now works in a larger restaurant kitchen and explains in her final monologue that through her curiosity she has found the answer to all her questions and thus to herself.
background
The script is based on a novel by Margaret Diehl . The film was screened for the first time on February 22, 1998 at the Portuguese film festival Fantasporto . In the United States, the film opened in cinemas on June 26, 1998.
Reviews
Brian Webster wrote in the Apollo Movie Guide that the film was "well-intentioned" but "incoherent". He lives from the "strong portrayal" of Sean Young, the "charismatic" and "clever" seem. The end of the film was not particularly successful.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film shows a “self-confident woman who does not allow herself to be forced into a role corset determined by men”, but rather strives for the role of an “equal partner”.
The magazine TV Movie wrote that the "portrait of a young, in every way self-confident woman and her erotic odyssey in the American city" was "convincingly embodied" by Sean Young.
Awards
Zoe Clarke-Williams won the 1997 Hollywood Young Filmmaker Award at the Hollywood Film Festival.
Web links
- Men are to be kissed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Men are to be kissed at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Premiere dates on Internet Movie Database , February 24, 2014.
- ^ Review by Brian Webster ( memento of October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on apolloguide.com, accessed on February 24, 2014.
- ↑ Men are there to be kissed. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at tvmovie.de, accessed on February 24, 2014.
