Nell
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Nell |
| Original title | Nell |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Apted |
| script |
William Nicholson , Mark Handley |
| production |
Jodie Foster , Renée Missel |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Dante Spinotti |
| cut | Jim Clark |
| occupation | |
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Nell is an American drama film directed by Michael Apted in 1994 and starring Jodie Foster . The script is based on the play Idioglossia by Mark Handley .
action
Nell grew up with her mother and twin sister May in a remote log cabin in the forest of Graham County, North Carolina, without any contact with other people. With her sister, who died in childhood, she spoke her own imaginary language. After a stroke, Nell's mother suffered from paralysis on one side, which resulted in aphasia . For these reasons, Nell speaks a strange language that other people cannot understand.
One day the mother dies too and her body is discovered by Billy Fisher, who regularly puts groceries in front of the hut. He notifies the police who call the doctor Dr. Jerome Lovell calls in to examine the body. Since the old woman was considered a hermit with no relatives, everyone is surprised when Dr. Lovell finds another woman in the house with Nell. They find out that Nell is the daughter of the dead and that she was likely conceived in a rape.
Nell only dares to go out of the house in the dark and is afraid of other people and becomes aggressive if you get too close to her. Dr. Lovell draws Dr. Paula Olsen, who works with autistic children. Together with her colleague Dr. Paley get Nell to be sent to an institution for further investigation.
After an objection from Dr. Lovell, who takes the view that Nell should be allowed to live in her familiar surroundings, the judge in charge postponed a decision on Nell for three months because there is not yet enough information about Nell. Lovell and Olsen move near the old cabin to watch Nell and learn more about her.
After the press hears about Nell, writes a newspaper about the "wild woman," and a cameraman circled Nell's cabin in a helicopter, Lovell and Olsen decide to take Nell to safety in a hospital in Charlotte City .
Dr. Lovell finally understands Nell's language so well that, with his help, Nell is able to defend her position in a passionate speech in court. The impressed judge then refuses to be admitted to an institution. Five years later, Lovell and Olsen, who are now a couple and have a daughter, visit Nell for her birthday party in her cabin.
background
- The track played in the film and sung by Nell is Crazy by Willie Nelson .
- The Bible quotation read aloud is from Isaiah 1, verse 4. ( EU )
- Filming began on April 11, 1994 and ended on June 18, 1994.
- The film grossed around $ 107 million in cinemas around the world, including $ 34 million in the United States. Around 2.1 million cinema-goers were counted in Germany.
- Foster announced during an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres Show that the character of Nell was her best acting performance.
synchronization
The German language dubbing was created by Hermes Synchron under the dialogue direction of Leon Boden .
| Actress | German dubbing voice | role |
|---|---|---|
| Jodie Foster | Heidrun Bartholomäus | Nell |
| Liam Neeson | Bernd Rumpf | Dr. Jerome 'Jerry' Lovell |
| Natasha Richardson | Susanna Bonaséwicz | Dr. Paula Olsen |
| Richard Libertini | Friedrich Georg Beckhaus | Dr. Alexander Paley |
| O'Neal Compton | Michael Telloke | Don Fontana |
| Robin Mullins | Eva Kryll | Mary Petersen |
| Sean Bridgers | David Nathan | Mike Ibarra |
| Joe Inscoe | Udo Schenk | Judge |
| Lucile McIntyre | Evelyn Meyka | Sally |
| Nick Searcy | Bernd Schramm | Sheriff Todd Petersen |
| Heather M. Bomba | Marie-Luise Schramm | twin |
Reviews
“Actually, Nell is not telling anything exciting new: From the pure, unadulterated savage, whose feelings are completely open and who lives in harmony with nature, the townspeople learn to see their life with different eyes. But seldom is this message conveyed in such an exciting and intense way as here by Jodie Foster [...]. Body language and facial expressions make the film an experience and Jodie Foster the hot 'Oscar' candidate. Your private language 'Nellisch' appears to be well motivated and has a comprehensible structure. In order to preserve their credibility in the German version as well, the German dubbing company devoted themselves to an adequate transmission and finally found a spokeswoman in the new Jodie Foster voice Heide Bartholomäus (previously Hansi Jochmann ) whose 'Nellisch' for one Goosebumps after the other. "
“Apted's film itself is […] more of a garment about the old song of innocence, which has no chance given the current state of affairs. But Jodie Foster's performances more than make up for the excessive theses of the film. It is breathtaking how she expresses with her whole body what she has no words for: the shyness and fear when she saw a strange man for the first time in her life; the emotion when she first listens to a country song; the shock and confusion when she comes to a bigger city for the first time - and since she only perceives the stench and the noise, the threatening of the crowd, the architecture, the technology. "
“ Nell is loaded with so many lofty thoughts that none of them actually reach the audience. The star simply fiddled to death his dream film and loved it to death. […] The film's capital flaw: it glorifies its main character just as the doctor Lovell does. At the latest, when the naked Nell is dancing on the midnight blue lake, the film has called up all the symbols of old-fashioned natural poetry: backlighting. Dark forest and sparkling water. Moonlight. Churning fog. "
"An effort, but clichéd attempt to portray the conflict between civilization and nature, which fails not least because of the cast of the 'wild child' with a Hollywood star."
Awards
Jodie Foster won for her portrayal of nominations for the Academy Awards in 1995 , for the Golden Globe Awards in 1995 and the 1995 MTV Movie Awards . Foster won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 1995. The film received other nominations for the 1995 Golden Globe in the categories of Best Picture - Drama and Best Score .
literature
- Louis Chunovic: Jodie Foster. A portrait. VGS, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8025-2416-0 , pp. 179-181.
- Buddy Foster: Jodie Foster. A biography. Econ, Düsseldorf, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-430-12882-X , pp. 259-264.
Web links
- Nell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nell in the online film database
- Nell at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nell. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on January 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Torsten Wahl: Skilfully circumventing kitsch: Michael Apted's film "Nell" with Jodie Foster in the lead role - a stubborn plea for the wild life . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 23, 1995
- ↑ Norbert Grob: The child prodigy Jodie . In: Die Zeit , No. 10/1995
- ↑ Susanne Weingarten: Moonlight and Fog . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1995, p. 198 ( online ).
- ^ Nell in the Lexicon of International Films