Nora Roberts - Lilies in the Summer Wind
| Movie | |
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| German title | Nora Roberts - Lilies in the Summer Wind |
| Original title | Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephen Tolkin |
| script | Stephen Tolkin |
| production | Salli Newman |
| music | Steve Porcaro |
| camera | Derick V. Underschultz |
| cut | Give Jaffe |
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Lilies in the Summer Wind (original title: Nora Roberts' Carolina Moon ) is an American - Canadian thriller directed by Stephen Tolkin from 2007 . Stephen Tolkin's screenplay is based on Nora Roberts' 2006 novel published under the original title "Carolina Moon". The leading roles are starring Claire Forlani , Oliver Hudson and Josie Davis . Jacqueline Bisset can be seen in a leading role as a mother.
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Victoria Bodeen returns to her hometown after many years, where she wants to open a shop for handicrafts. She also wants to solve the violent death of her friend Hope Lavelle, which happened 18 years ago. Since that event, she has been plagued by nightmarish visions in which she sees Hope and other victims of violent crime. Her visions helped find kidnapped children in New York City .
Hope's mother Margaret tries to persuade Victoria to leave the village by paying a large sum of money in order to avoid any further contact with her daughter's girlfriend at the time, and she does not want her children to come into contact with Victoria. Hope's sister Faith still resents Victoria that Hope saw Victoria as a sister rather than her. It is different with Cade, Hope's brother. He supports Victoria in her research and also gets closer to her privately. Victoria learns that every anniversary of Hope's death, another woman is murdered. She suspects the serial killer to be among her friends.
When Victoria opens her business, she agrees with a woman that she can work for her. A short time later, the woman is murdered. Victoria's abusive father is suspected of having injured a policewoman and has been on the run ever since. He ambushes his daughter in the shop and steals cash. A little later, Victoria's mother is found dead. Faith supports Victoria in business after this bad time; she befriends - which she herself describes as surprising - with Tory.
Then Victoria's father reappears. Shots are fired and he is routed by Faith and Tory, but can first steal Faith's car to continue his escape. The shots are heard not only by the police but also by Cade, who rush to the aid of the women. Victoria sees the hands of her father in a vision, who drives the car into an agricultural machine, whereupon the car explodes.
Although Faith and Cade persuade their mother Margaret to finally stop their hostile behavior towards Victoria, this attempt remains unsuccessful. On the contrary - she threatens her children to remove them from her will and leaves the house. Although it is believed that the danger has now been averted, Victoria senses that it is not. And so it is, the young woman is attacked by a man who grew up with her and Cade. At the time, he not only wanted to rape and murder Hope, but also Victoria. It was her luck that she could not keep the appointment she had made with her friend. With all his might, Tory defends himself against the attacker. In the meantime it has been found that Tory's father cannot possibly have committed the murders he is accused of. Police Chief Russ and Cade show up at Victoria just in time to foil another crime.
Production notes, audience rating
The film was in Calgary in the province of Alberta rotated.
Also in this film version, as in most of her filmed works, Nora Roberts has a small appearance. Here she can be seen in the middle of the film when Tory and Cade stand behind the counter in their shop and show him a pistol in a drawer. Roberts is among the customers in the store.
The television film premiered on February 19, 2007 in the USA and on August 2, 2007 in Germany; At the same time it was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment under the title Carolina Moon - Lilien im Sommerwind . When it was first broadcast on ARD, the film was seen by 4.6 million viewers, which corresponds to a market share of 16.4%, and thus landed second behind Tagesschau as the most tuned show that evening.
criticism
The magazine TVdirekt , issue 15/2007, found that "the excitement" remains "within limits".
The critic of Teleschau - the media service wrote that the film mixes the genres of family drama, crime, romance and thriller. It is "quite entertaining" and in places "a little creepy", but "in places a bit overly petty".
“An awkward juxtaposition of clichés. - Almost even more stupid than the German title. "
The Frankfurter Neue Presse was at the premiere "the story [is] in such a way manageable and idyllic as the American small town, in the play of Nora Roberts novel and the film. The characters [...] only black or white, only good or bad [...]. The emotions [are] unnaturally sugar-sweet, but still this love thriller captivates with its cleverly built tension and its sympathetic actors. Much more than after enjoying a penny novel - from which the title could come - stay afterwards, although 90 entertaining minutes without the feeling of wanting to switch over, [is] something ”.
In Kino.de it was said that this "co-produced bestselling films still going to the movies Friday ARD compare" were. “The darkest contribution is shown by the 'first' as the grand finale. Despite the romantic title, 'Lilien im Sommerwind' tells a rather violent story. [...] Even more than the rest of the series, 'Lilien im Sommerwind' provides various goose bumps. […] With the casting of the mother of Faith and Hope, Tolkin succeeded in a small coup: Jacqueline Bisset turned the embittered woman, who still blames Tory for the death of her daughter, into a dignified role in old age . "
Web links
- Nora Roberts - Carolina Moon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lilien im Sommerwind , OT: Carolina Moon in synchronized files
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- ^ Locations of the film in the IMDb, accessed on July 23, 2007
- ↑ a b c novel adaptation based on Nora Roberts at bestof-robb.de
- ↑ Nora Roberts - Lilien im Sommerwind In: TV direkt , issue 15/2007, p. 126
- ↑ Franziska Kramer: Nora Roberts - Lilien im Sommerwind ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. at Stimme.de
- ↑ Nora Roberts: Lilien im Sommerwind Film review on the TV Spielfilm website , accessed on July 7, 2013.
- ↑ Nora Roberts: Lilien im Sommerwind at kino.de
