Mona Lisa (film)

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Movie
German title Mona Lisa
Original title Mona Lisa
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Neil Jordan
script Neil Jordan, David Leland
production George Harrison , Denis O'Brien
music Ray Evans , Michael Kamen
camera Roger Pratt
cut Lesley Walker
occupation

Mona Lisa is a British movie of the genre thriller from the year 1986 . The director was Neil Jordan and the script was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland . The main roles are played by Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson .

action

Former inmate George is hired as a driver by his former boss, gangster Mortwell. He brings Simone, a call girl, to her locations around London and also acts as Simone's bodyguard. In the process, they come closer and closer.

George complies with Simone's request to look for her former friend Cathy, who works as a prostitute. After he has found her in the red light district and freed her, it turns out that Cathy is Simone's lesbian lover, and that she must first go through a drug withdrawal. George has the heart to confess his love to Simone. The pimp Anderson interrupts the two at the worst possible moment, and a chase ensues. Anderson and Mortwell are shot by Simone; George and Simone go their separate ways, and George returns to his previous life and especially to his daughter.

Reviews

The critics think that the film addresses human loneliness. The images were described as fascinating and carefully composed . Bob Hoskins' game was called terrific , among other things .

  • Lexicon of international film : "Artfully arranged mixture of love story and thriller , immersed in seductively beautiful pictures , which is conclusive as a cinematic description of moods and sensations, but has transfigured, overesthetic moments in the concrete references to reality ." 
  • Prisma Online : "[...] an excellently photographed and haunted melodramatic crime thriller ." 
  • Pauline Kael : “The film is bright in a beautiful way. [...] a melodramatic impasto with expressive features [...] Jordan shows a talent for making the emotional state visual and vice versa " 
  • Time Out Film Guide: "[...] one of the most moving love stories in newer cinema [...] A brilliant achievement, a dark film whose good-natured heart is Hoskins with an extraordinarily moving portrayal." 
  • Edinburgh University Film Society: "A very wonderful film" 

Awards

Bob Hoskins was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in 1987 . He won the Best Actor Award of the Film Festival of Cannes 1986 , the BAFTA , the Golden Globe Award , the London Film Critics Circle Award , the New York Film Critics Circle , the Boston Society of Film Critics Award , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award , the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award , the National Society of Film Critics Awards, and the Grand Prize of the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid .

The film received three nominations for the Golden Globe Award : as Best Picture - Drama , for Cathy Tyson as Best Supporting Actress , as well as Neil Jordan and David Leland for Best Screenplay .

The film received five BAFTA award nominations , including Cathy Tyson, Neil Jordan for Best Director , Neil Jordan and David Leland for Best Screenplay, and Best Picture .

The song In Too Deep from the Genesis album Invisible Touch received the BMI Film & TV Award . The film was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award .

Others

The film was produced by HandMade Films . Mona Lisa is included in the Criterion Collection (# 107).

On July 13, 2008, the film on Rotten Tomatoes was exactly 100 percent with 16 evaluated reviews, 3454 viewers voted in the IMDb with an average of 7.3 out of 10 points.

The day of the first performance in the Federal Republic was December 11, 1986, in the GDR July 29, 1988; The film was released on video in July 1987, and it was first shown on television on December 10, 1988 on ARD. 

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the Mona Lisa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2004 (PDF; test number: 57 314 V / DVD).
  2. ^ A b Catholic Institute for Media Information and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (ed.): Lexicon of international films . Cinema, television, video, DVD . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-86150-455-3 , p. 2161 .
  3. ^ Pauline Kael : Mona Lisa. Retrieved on August 4, 2008 : “The movie is lurid in a beautiful way. [...] a melodramatic impasto with an expressive power [...] Jordan shows a gift for making the emotional atmosphere visual, and vice versa. "
  4. ^ RR: Mona Lisa (1986). In: Time Out Film Guide. Time Out London, accessed on July 13, 2008 (English): “[…] one of the most affecting love stories in recent cinema […] A wonderful achievement, a dark film with a generous heart in the shape of an extraordinarily touching performance from Hoskins. "
  5. ↑ Spiros Gangas: Mona Lisa. (No longer available online.) In: Edinburgh University Film Society. Archived from the original on June 17, 2009 ; accessed on July 13, 2008 (English): “A truly wonderful film […]” 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eufs.org.uk