Maudie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Maudie |
| Original title | Maudie |
| Country of production | Canada , Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 8 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aisling Walsh |
| script | Sherry White |
| production |
Bob Cooper , Mary Young Leckie , Mary Sexton , Susan Mullen |
| music | Michael Timmins |
| camera | Guy Godfree |
| cut | Stephen O'Connell |
| occupation | |
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Maudie is a 2016 Canadian - Irish biography biography by Aisling Walsh . The film describes the life of the Canadian painter Maud Lewis (1903–1970). Had its premiere Maudie on 2 September 2016, the Telluride Film Festival came on 26 October 2017 the German cinemas.
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Maud Dowley, an inconspicuous, diminutive woman in her mid 30, lives in the 1930s with her aunt Ida in a small village in Nova Scotia ( Canada ). Maud suffers from juvenile arthritis , which is very physically handicapped. When her brother Charles tells her that he has sold her parents' house, she is horrified. She feels uncomfortable with Ida, for whom she does the housework more poorly than well. Only her hobby, painting, brings her some joy, although it is tedious with her stiff joints and she makes slow progress. Maud stubbornly claims to be able to look for a job and to look after himself, and Ida laughs at him and scolds him as naive. But she finds a display of fishmonger and Trödlers Everett Lewis, who is looking for a mitwohnende in the house domestic help, and gets the job actually, despite him very much persuaded needs to hire them.
Everett is taciturn and sullen and lives with two dogs in a remote, tiny house with only one room without electricity or running water. The only bed they have to share is on a loft above the room. After just two days, Everett is so disappointed with Maud's household skills and her demand for wages that he throws her out again, and only because she has nowhere else to go does she finally get on. She pulls herself together, does the housework as best she can, even manages to slaughter a chicken and make chicken soup, and in doing so earns a little respect from Everett. Everett makes it clear to her that on the small farm he himself comes first, "then the dogs, then the chickens and then only you!"
When Ida learns from village gossip that Maud is now living with Everett, she is alarmed and reproaches Maud. It reminds her how she once became pregnant as a young woman and gave birth to a deformed child who died in childbirth. A friend of Everett's also makes slightly suggestive remarks about their cohabitation during a visit, and when Maud tries to act humorously, the indignant Everett slaps her hard on the face.
In her frustration, Maud begins with very small paintings on the barren interior walls of the small house, with a paint can that she accidentally discovered in the house. Everett condones Maud's depictions of birds and flowers, only makes a few derisive remarks. She also begins to paint wooden panels that Everett occasionally collects from his junk shop. Gradually they get used to each other and while Everett still doesn't have a particularly high opinion of Maud, he increasingly accepts her as part of his life. He also begins shy night advances, which Maud rejects.
One day while Everett is on the road, Sandra, a fine lady from the local area, knocks and complains about a missing fish delivery. Sandra is from New York and drives her own car. She gets on well with Maud and becomes aware of her paintings, which she likes. Maud later persuades Everett to introduce at least some rudimentary bookkeeping that she wants to do for him. When they deliver the fish together to Sandra, Maud's painting comes up again, which ultimately leads to the sale of a painting to Sandra for five dollars. Everett is clearly impressed by this and encourages Maud to paint and sell more. They put an advertising sign on the street and little by little Maud's pictures and cards become a modest additional income for the already poor couple, who continue to live in their small wooden house. Maud paints naively and with unmixed colors straight from the tube, but she has a talent for picture composition, people like her pictures.
Maud increasingly presses Everett to marry her, especially since they have also started to sleep together in the meantime. In doing so, they consistently take precautions, as Maud does not want to give birth to a disabled child again. Everett reluctantly resists, but reluctantly gives in and marries Maud. This changes little in the way they live together, Everett continues to regard Maud more as a housekeeper and accountant than as his wife.
The years go by, Maud gradually paints the whole house and sells paintings again and again, even if only for little money. Her fame as a folk artist is growing. One day, Maud's brother Charles is in the yard, buys a painting from Maud and acts as her manager, but she sends him away. At the latest when the then US Vice President Richard Nixon ordered a picture and Canadian television broadcast a report about the couple, Everett got into a crisis and even developed feelings of inferiority because of Maud's great fame.
When Aunt Ida becomes seriously ill and is dying, Everett refuses to drive Maud to her and she has to hobble all the way to Ida on foot. Before her death, Ida confesses to her that Maud's baby was neither dead nor deformed at the time, but a perfectly normal, healthy girl. Her family lied to her and sold the child for adoption because they feared Maud would never be able to raise a child. Maud is shocked, but when she tries to tell Everett about it, Everett doesn't listen at all and instead complains about his own suffering, how important she is and that he probably doesn't play a role anymore. That's enough for Maud, she separates from Everett.
After a while they come together again. Maud can reassure Everett that he is perfect for her and that she doesn't want anyone else. Everett surprisingly drives with Maud to a strange, big house and tells her that her daughter lives here. Maud struggles to get out and from a distance watches a girl and a man in front of the house. The man goes into the house while the woman with short black hair goes to gardening. Maud doesn't dare to go any closer, she gets back in after a few minutes, bursts into tears and can't believe how beautiful her daughter is. However, she does not make any further contact.
Years later, Maud's health deteriorates, she develops problems with her lungs and has to quit smoking. One day in deep winter, when she was trying to carry a heavy log into the house, she fell into the snow and couldn't get up. Everett drives her to the hospital and accompanies her as she dies. When he gets home, he carries Maud's advertising signs into the house and closes the door behind him. It's getting dark in the house.
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Main actress Sally Hawkins , who paints herself, was so enthusiastic about Maud Lewis 'paintings that she incorporated Lewis' painting technique into her own pictures. For the role of Everett Lewis Sean Bean was initially planned. However, Bean had to cancel due to other commitments and Ethan Hawke stepped in for him.
Although the film is set in Nova Scotia , the shooting took place in the neighboring province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the fall of 2015 , as one of the producers is from there and the province was offering government subsidies for film production at the time.
reception
The film received mostly mixed to positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 88 percent of the 138 reviews collected are positive, while at Metacritic 65 percent of 35 reviews are positive.
Lars-Christian Daniels von Filmstarts judges that Maudie is "an equally powerful and touching relationship drama", which "is mainly carried by the two great leading actors Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke".
For Antje Wessels "[the film] scores with two strong main actors, but the story [...] runs in overly formulaic trajectories and also fails to get its main character out of its deadlocked victim role" and "[a] in the end you don't believe anyone Second, that there actually exist sympathies between the supposed lovers ”.
Web links
- Maudie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maudie in the online film database
- Maudie atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Maudie in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Maudie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 171255 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Maudie . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Peter Howell: Finding the sophisticated woman behind the 'naive' painter in Maudie . In: The Star . April 14, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ^ Ethan Hawke in St. John's working on feature-film Maudie . In: CBC News . September 18, 2015. Accessed September 2, 2018.
- ↑ Maudie star Ethan Hawke, director Aisling Walsh praise filming in Atlantic Canada . In: CBC News . September 13, 2016. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ↑ Maudie . In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ↑ Maudie . In: Metacritic . Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ^ Lars-Christian Daniels: film review . In: film starts . Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ^ Antje Wessels: film review . In: Wessel's film review . October 21, 2017. Retrieved September 2, 2018.