Nocturnal Animals

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Movie
German title Nocturnal Animals
Original title Nocturnal Animals
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Tom Ford
script Tom Ford
production Tom Ford,
Robert Salerno
music Abel Korzeniowski
camera Seamus McGarvey
cut Joan Sobel
occupation
synchronization

Nocturnal Animals (English for "nocturnal animals") is an American film directed by Tom Ford in 2016 . The drama is based on the 1993 novel Tony & Susan by the author Austin Wright . The main roles are played by Jake Gyllenhaal , Amy Adams , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Michael Shannon , Isla Fisher , Armie Hammer and Laura Linney .

The film premiered on September 2, 2016 in Venice and was released in German cinemas on December 22, 2016.

action

reality

The unhappily married gallery owner Susan Morrow receives from her ex-husband Edward Sheffield manuscript of his novel Nocturnal Animals ( " Nocturnal animals "), which he dedicated to her.

novel

The novel tells of the fate of the family man Tony Hastings, his wife Laura and their daughter India. The family's car is rammed by another vehicle on a highway in the desert and eventually driven off the road. The three men in this vehicle - Ray Marcus, Lou and Turk - kidnap Laura and India in the family's car after a few arguments. Tony is forced to drive Lou in their car to the end of a desert dirt road, where Lou abandons the family man. When Ray and Lou are looking for Tony a short time later, he hides and later drags himself to a house where he calls the police. Bobby Andes, the investigating police officer, finds the corpses of the women in a nearby trailer . They were raped and then suffocated or beaten to death.

Guilty Tony is contacted a year later by Andes to identify Lou and later Ray, who were arrested after a shop robbery. Ray has to be released for lack of evidence, but the lung cancer investigator believes he has nothing more to lose and is ready to do anything to get her talking. He and Tony take the two of them to a remote cabin for interrogation. When they want to flee, the policeman shoots Lou. They split up to find Ray. Tony finds and shoots Ray after he confessed to the crime and attacked Tony with a metal bar and seriously injured him. When Tony wakes up, he is blind from the head injuries. As he hobbled out of the hut, he accidentally fell on his pistol, shooting himself.

Reality (continued)

Shocked by the violence in the novel, Susan thinks back to meeting Edward and marrying him over her mother's objections, whom Edward considers weak and lacking in ambition. After learning that her current husband is cheating on Hutton, she reads the manuscript and remembers her marriage to Edward, which was marked by his lack of success and her doubts about him and his works. After cheating on Edward with Hutton, she divorced in order to marry Hutton. Edward broke off contact with her when he learned that she had secretly aborted their child.

Susan believes that the novel describes Edward's pain during the breakup and at the same time he wants to prove to her that he is able to write a successful novel. She then contacted Edward to meet with him. When she waits a long time for him in a restaurant, however, she realizes that he will not meet her again.

background

V. l. To the right: Tom Ford , Amy Adams , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Armie Hammer

In March 2015 it was first announced that the novel Tony & Susan would be made into a film by Austin Wright . It was then that George Clooney and Grant Heslov and their company Smoke House Pictures were named  as producers. Tom Ford was already established as a screenwriter and director . A day later, Jake Gyllenhaal was hired for one of the main roles in the film.

The shooting of the film ran from October 5, 2015 to December 5, 2015 in Los Angeles . The house in which film spouses Susan and Hutton live is in Malibu and was designed by architect Scott Mitchell. Susan's world was supposed to appear cold and harsh, isolation and alienation were the main themes for the design of her environment, according to Shane Valentino, product designer for Ford's film. Large glass surfaces, concrete and hard materials, which are characteristic of their home, created this atmosphere, says Valentino. Likewise, huge rooms and long corridors that make your figure appear tiny, or even trapped in this world.

In Susan's life as an art gallery owner, the film also shows various existing modern and contemporary works of art, including a balloon dog (silver) by Jeff Koons , Damien Hirst's Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain , Richard Misrach's photograph Desert Fire # 153 from the Desert Cantos series , John Currins Nude in a convex mirror , as well as pictures by Robert Motherwell and Mark Bradford .

The film is distributed in the United States by Focus Features . The rights cost Focus 20 million US dollars , which the distribution rights to Nocturnal Animals makes with the most expensive in recent years.

Nocturnal Animals premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2016. The film was also screened on September 9, 2016 at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival . In Germany it was released in cinemas on December 22, 2016.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by RC Production Kunze & Wunder in Berlin . Klaus Bickert wrote the dialogue book, Katrin Fröhlich directed the dialogue and also spoke the character Anne Sutton.

role actor Voice actor
Susan Morrow Amy Adams Giuliana Jakobeit
Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings Jake Gyllenhaal Marius Clarén
Detective Bobby Andes Michael Shannon Oliver Stritzel
Ray Marcus Aaron Taylor-Johnson Alexander Doering
Laura Hastings Isla Fisher Maria Koschny
Lou Bates Karl Glusman Patrick Roche
Hutton Morrow Armie Hammer Sascha Rotermund
Anne Sutton Laura Linney Katrin Fröhlich
Alessia Holt Andrea Riseborough Anna Grisebach
Carlos Holt Michael Sheen Marcus Off
India Hastings Ellie Bamber Kristina Tietz
Steve "Turk" Adams Robert Aramayo Roman Wolko
Samantha Morrow India Menuez Maria Hönig
Samantha van Helsing Kristin Bauer van Straten Meike Finck
Say Ross Jena Malone Anna Carlsson
Alex Zawe Ashton Friederike Walke
Lieutenant Graves Graham Beckel Reinhard Scheunemann
Chloe Imogen Waterhouse Laurine Betz
Christopher Neil Jackson Timmo Niesner

Age rating

The film was rated for ages 16 and over in Germany and Austria. The youth media commission saw in particular the staging of the kidnapping as "relevant to the protection of minors ". The portrayal of overweight women at the beginning was partly perceived as "degrading". In addition, the fact that “a police officer doubts the legal system, offers vigilante justice as a solution strategy and this is also accepted by the protagonist” is viewed by the commission as “highly problematic and disorienting”. The subject of revenge is being exploited “in an often disturbing way”. The FSK only certified the film as having "a few dramatic scenes of tension [...] which young people aged 16 and over can work through". The latter are also able to “place the vigilante justice exercised in the end in the context of the nested and symbolic overall action and to question it critically”. A “lasting irritation or a socio-ethical disorientation” is not to be feared.

criticism

Michael Shannon at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival

The German film magazine epd Film rated the film four out of five stars and praised the way in which the director maintains the tension between the two narrative levels as subtle.

Christoph Schröder also describes Nocturnal Animals in his review of the time as "incredibly exciting" and praises the complex, irritating, highly skillful interlocking of the different traces of consciousness that run through the film. In a glaringly exaggerated aesthetic and in some pompous images that stand out above all in the vast Texan landscape, Tom Ford stages "a mirror cabinet of motifs and references, between art and reality, between dream, memory and reality". In addition to the visual power of the film, he also praises the performance of Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the sadistic and sardonically grinning villain Ray Marcus and Michael Shannon as the Texas sheriff, who in the end has nothing more to lose.

Lukas Stern, on the other hand, criticizes in his review of the film in the Spiegel that the three different levels of the film, all of which ultimately go back to Susan and are designed from her perspective, do not really interlock, despite the context in which they are or should be. which was due to the fact that the film didn't like its protagonist at all. According to Lukas Stern, a more interesting, closer integration of the different levels of action would have meant more subjectivity, which Ford could not use.

The film is judged even more critically by the columnist and writer Peter Praschl in his criticism in the world . Praschl thinks that Ford is arrogant in Nocturnal Animals with his "tragedy of a cold American marriage". As a director, he suggests with every shot that he has something to say to the viewer; the actual message and meaning of the film, however, remains blurred and nebulous. Everything in this film is "to howl"; ironically, Praschl only excludes the strippers at the beginning, who are so fat and wobbly that when they dance, second bellies dance on their bellies. Nobody forces you to "cave them into a theory in which they take on a lot of meaning".

The Süddeutsche Zeitung sees Tom Ford's directorial work in Nocturnal Animals similarly negative . Ford tries in his film to dissect the sadomasochistic pleasure in voyeurism and to repel and arouse his viewers with sex and blood at the same time, just as his protagonist is repulsed and aroused by her reading at the same time. The fundamental problem with this mystery thriller, however, is that the director Tom Ford unfortunately never gets past the fashion designer Tom Ford and trips himself up with it. In contrast to the film productions by David Lynch , whose works are carefully constructed nightmare labyrinths, Ford delivers "more of a series of photo shoot sessions for glossy magazines". While with Lynch behind the erotic surface the “rot and sublimated horror” would always lurk, Ford only offers another erotic surface.

In contrast, Hartwig Tegeler praised both the directorial work of Tom Ford and the acting achievements of the leading actors in his review of the film on Deutschlandfunk . The director lets his protagonists act in two worlds, the artist community in Los Angeles and the sun-scorched Texan desert, which couldn't be further apart. In the film it remains exciting to the very end, which of the two stories presented is real and which is fantasy. The wonderful thing about Ford's film is that it insists on its secret. Also due to the cast of the main roles with the terrific acting Amy Adams and the no less great playing Jake Gyllenhaal, Nocturnal Animals represented a great "cinema gift" for the audience.

Awards (selection)

At the Venice International Film Festival, the film won the Grand Jury Prize, the second most important award in the competition. In Germany, he received the Frankfurt Book Fair's award for the best international literary film adaptation in 2016. In 2017, three nominations for the Golden Globe Awards followed (best director, best supporting actor - Taylor-Johnson, best screenplay). Taylor-Johnson received the award. Also in 2017 , Michael Shannon was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d Age rating for Nocturnal Animals . Youth Media Commission .
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  7. ↑ Focus Features Wins Tom Ford's 'Nocturnal Animals' In Whopping $ 20 Million Cannes Worldwide Rights Deal (English) . In: deadline.com , May 7, 2015. Accessed May 31, 2015. 
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  11. ↑ Reasons for approval: Nocturnal Animals, USA 2016. In: fsk.de. Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, accessed on February 3, 2017 .
  12. ↑ epd film No. 12/2016, p. 73.
  13. ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Nocturnal Animals . In: epd Film No. 12/2016, p. 54.
  14. ↑ Christoph Schröder: Cold revenge . In: Die Zeit, December 26, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  15. ↑ Lukas Stern: Vengeance, but it has to be romantic . In: Der Spiegel, December 21, 2016. Retrieved October 4, 2018
  16. ↑ Peter Prasch: Oh, how tragic is the middle class sadness! In: Die Welt, December 23, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
  17. ↑ Erotic instead of putrefaction and sublime horror . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 23, 2016. Accessed October 5, 2018.
  18. ↑ Hartwig Tegeler: Between waking and sleeping . In: Deutschlandfunk , December 21, 2016. Accessed October 5, 2018.
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