Out of the Blue (1980)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Out of the blue |
| Original title | Out of the blue |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dennis Hopper |
| script |
Leonard Yakir , Brenda Nielson uncredited: Dennis Hopper, Gary Jules Jouvenat |
| production | Gary Jules Jouvenat |
| music | Tom Lavin |
| camera | Marc Champion |
| cut | Doris Dyck |
| occupation | |
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Out of the Blue (in Germany also: Dynamite Punk or Exploding Dreams ) is a Canadian film drama from 1980 by Dennis Hopper about the growing up of the girl Cebe , played by Linda Manz , in the early 1980s.
action
Cebe is a rebellious, precocious, adolescent girl and comes from a broken home where she was sexually abused by her father. She is struggling to cope with her parents' problems: Her father, Don Barnes, was a truck driver until he went to jail after he had a fatal accident with a school bus. Cebes drug addict, nervous mother Kathy has taken a lover in the meantime.
Cebe is emphatically cool and always has a clever saying ready. She drinks and smokes. At the same time, she also sucks on her thumb . She regularly visits the psychologist with her mother, where she draws pictures of children. What she really cares about is her idol Elvis Presley and punk music . She would like to become a musician herself. Eventually her father is released from prison. Back at home, he acts violently and drinks until it comes to a scandal.
Attempts at a life together fail, and even a social worker cannot help. After another attempt at abuse, the daughter stabs her father to death and blows herself and her mother up in a truck.
background
Dennis Hopper directed and played Cebe's father . This was the first film that Hopper directed after The Last Movie (1971). He took over the direction shortly before filming began, replacing screenwriter Leonard Yakir , who was originally intended to direct. Gary Jules Jouvenat produced the film and also co-wrote the script.
Out of the Blue was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes International Film Festival . The film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum considers Out of the Blue to be one of the 15 best films of the 1980s.
The title of the film is borrowed from the song My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) from Neil Young's album Rust Never Sleeps .
The film was shot in Vancouver ( British Columbia , Canada). A number of Vancouver area icons appear in the film, including Pointed Sticks , one of the most important bands from Vancouver's punk era.
The original version of Out of the Blue was initially banned in the UK but was then broadcast in full on Channel 4 on 10 January 1987 .
The FSK working committee voted unanimously in favor of a release only from the age of 18, as “the film presented could have a disorienting and confusing effect for a not inconsiderable number of young people.” The main committee came to a completely different conclusion and gave the film with a majority of eight to one free from 16. The film was made seriously and should by no means be withheld from this age group, "because it promotes their socio-ethical understanding without seriously worrying about negative effects."
Reviews
“A pessimistic teenage portrait that relentlessly describes the breakup of the family and the failure of the 'American Dream'. The film is played convincingly and in parts remarkable in terms of the description of the milieu, musical dramaturgy and image effect. "
“The film is about how memories invade everyday life and occupy it. It is about everyday occurrences and destruction. And it's about time. The film tells about all of this without psychologizing, just by presenting externalities [...]. "
Pop Culture
The song Kill All Hippies by the British rock band Primal Scream on their album XTRMNTR from 2000 was named after a quote from Cebe in the film and also contains an excerpt from the film.
Web links
- Out of the Blue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Out of the Blue at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Films You May Have Missed: Out of the Blue (English) . Retrieved March 13, 2010.
- ^ Festival de Cannes: Out of the Blue . In: festival-cannes.com . Retrieved May 28, 2009.
- ↑ Jonathan Rosenbaum's Top Ten Lists 1974-2006 . Alumnus.caltech.edu. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
- ↑ Out of the Blue , Dorothy Woodend, TheTyee.ca , November 12, 2010
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 334
- ^ Out of the Blue. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Norbert Jochum: Everything should be different. Cinema: “Out of the Blue” by Dennis Hopper . In: The time . No. 36/1981 , August 28, 1981, Critique and Information, p. 36 .