Miss Potter

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Movie
German title Miss Potter
Original title Miss Potter
Country of production UK , USA , Isle of Man
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Chris Noonan
script Richard Maltby Junior
production David Kirschner ,
Mike Medavoy ,
Arnold Messer ,
Corey Sienega ,
David Thwaites
music Nigel Westlake
camera Andrew Dunn
cut Robin Sales
occupation

Miss Potter is a 2006 biopic film directed by Chris Noonan and starring Renée Zellweger . The film is about the life of the children's author Beatrix Potter . The film is also known as The Magical World of Beatrix Potter .

action

London in 1902: 32-year-old Beatrix Potter lives in the house of her wealthy parents. Contrary to social conventions, the unmarried woman does not think of getting married and is a committed bachelor. After her parents tried several times in vain to marry her off to well-to-do, wealthy men, they have since given up on this. Since Beatrix Potter has little contact with the outside world apart from visitors from her parents, she largely lives in her own fantasy world and devotes herself to her passion: drawing pictures of animals and adding texts to them.

Against the will of her parents, who don't believe in independent women, she decides to have her works published as children's books. With her chaperone, Miss Wiggin, she visits the Warne Brothers publishing house to present her work. Although the two owners of the publishing house, the brothers Harold and Fruing Warne, only smile at and disdain Beatrix's work, they decide to publish the book anyway - as it turns out, only to give their youngest brother Norman a job, since he is an employee in the publishing house and they had promised him this. To the great surprise of publishers, The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a huge hit.

In addition to their work together, Beatrix and Norman soon became friends, and Norman's sister Millie, also a staunch bachelor, became her best friend. To the horror of Beatrix's parents, who see the Warne family as business people below their social class, Norman and Beatrix finally fall in love and want to get married. Beatrix doesn't want to hear about her parents' concerns. Eventually they agree to spend the summer with the family in the English Lake District, as they do every year . If the love of the two is still there afterwards, the parents would accept the marriage. During this time, Norman suddenly fell ill in London and died completely unexpectedly, whereupon Beatrix fell into a depression.

With the help of Norman's sister Millie, Beatrix decides to take her life back into her own hands and buys a farm in the Lake District, whose landscape she has always loved. William Heelis, a childhood friend from the area who has since become a lawyer, supports her in this.

Over time, she recovers from the loss, devotes herself to her drawings again, and over the years buys up a large part of the surrounding land in order to protect the untouched nature from major investors. Eventually, eight years after moving to the Lake District, she married her childhood friend William Heelis. After her death, Beatrix left 1,600 hectares of farmland to the British people in a foundation for the benefit of nature conservation.

background

  • Beatrix Potter's children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit has been published in Germany under the title Die Geschichte von Peter Hase .
  • In fact, Beatrix Potter had her first book The Tale of Peter Rabbit after numerous cancellations until Selbstverlag published before finally by Frederick Warne & Co was published.
  • The world premiere took place on December 3, 2006 in London. The cinema release in Great Britain was on January 5, 2007. In Germany, the film was not distributed and was released on October 23, 2008 as a DVD premiere.
  • The cost of production was estimated at $ 30 million. The film grossed around $ 35 million in cinemas worldwide.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film said: "The largely lifeless film portrait wants to portray art as a strategy for survival, but never gives an idea of ​​the poetic power and lightness of the works of its protagonist."

Stephan Sigg wrote: "The magical film, which often appears like a fairy tale due to the soft colors, brings a bygone era to life and shows that it is worth living your imagination as an adult as well."

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film allows itself some liberties, but correctly presents the essential facts about Potter. It looks like a novel by Jane Austen in a somewhat modernized form, in that it shows a strong woman who rebels against convention. The love story is "beautifully constructed"; Noonan avoid being too sentimental. The representations are solid; Berardinelli especially praised Renée Zellweger, the "boyish charming" Ewan McGregor and Emily Watson. The simplicity of the intentions represents a film strength.

Awards

Renée Zellweger was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actress - Comedy or Musical ; she was also nominated for a 2007 Saturn Award . The film received the Truly Moving Sound Award of the Heartland Film Festival in 2007 . The song When You Taught Me How To Dance by Katie Melua was for the World Soundtrack Award nominated of 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to Miss Potter . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 066 DVD).
  2. ↑ Filming locations for Miss Potter
  3. ↑ Premiere dates for Miss Potter
  4. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=misspotter.htm
  5. ↑ Miss Potter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Film review by Stephan Sigg
  7. ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli