PS I love you (film)

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Movie
German title PS I Love You
Original title PS I love you
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Richard LaGravenese
script Richard LaGravenese,
Steven Rogers
production Wendy Finerman ,
Andrew A. Kosove ,
Molly Smith
music John Powell
camera Terry Stacey
cut David Moritz
occupation

PS I Love You (PS I Love You) is an American film drama from the year 2007 . It was directed by Richard LaGravenese , who also wrote the screenplay with Steven Rogers , based on the novel PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern from 2004.

action

The film opens with a scene of a marriage argument between Gerry and Holly Kennedy. They argue about nothing, but quickly make up again. The terminally ill Gerry dies a little later of a brain tumor. He leaves Holly twelve letters that are delivered to her in different ways. The letters contain tasks for Holly to complete; they all end with the sentence PS I love you . With the first letter Holly received on her 30th birthday, Gerry included a tape recording explaining his plan to his wife. Holly's first assignment is to go out with her friends Denise Hennessey and Sharon McCarthy that same evening and celebrate their birthday with them. Other chores include Holly buying a bedside lamp and new clothes, singing karaoke , and sorting out Gerry's clothes, except for his leather jacket. Holly sends his things to his parents in Ireland.

Holly's friends, as well as her mother Patricia, are concerned that they believe reading the letters will keep Holly in her heartache. However, Holly herself is convinced that the letters would help her to come to terms with the loss and to see new perspectives.

The tasks also include a vacation in Ireland with Denise and Sharon, which Gerry has booked for the three of them. In their holiday home in Ireland the friends find two letters, one addressed to Denise and the other to Sharon. They too get tasks from him; they're supposed to fish with Holly and go to Gerry's favorite pub. While fishing, Sharon tells that she is pregnant and Denise reports that she is engaged. In the pub, Holly meets William, who is performing as a musician there that evening. They get closer and sleep together. Holly then asks William to drive her to a nearby village the next day, where she wants to visit her in-laws. Through this conversation, the two realize that they already know each other - William was Gerry's best friend. Her in-laws give Holly another letter in which Gerry recalls their first meeting.

It turns out that Gerry gave the letters to Holly's mother before his death, who did not approve of his plan, but still complied with his request. Holly receives the last letter from her mother Patricia. Gerry tells Holly that she was his life, but he was only one chapter in hers.

In the final scene of the film, Holly returns to Ireland with her mother to visit Gerry's parents again. On their farm they meet William again, this time with his father. William makes Holly laugh with his charm for the first time in a long time, and William's father has the same effect on Patricia.

Film music

  1. Love You 'Till The End - The Pogues
  2. Same Mistake - James Blunt
  3. More Time - Needtobreathe
  4. Carousel - Laura Izibor
  5. Fortress - Hope
  6. Last Train Home - Ryan Star
  7. Rewind - Paolo Nutini
  8. My Sweet Song - Toby Lightman
  9. No Other Love - Chuck Prophet
  10. Everything We Had - The Academy Is ...
  11. In The Beginning - The Stills
  12. If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly
  13. PS I Love You - Nellie McKay
  14. Kisses And Cake - John Powell

The film also plays the songs "Fairytale Of New York" by The Pogues and the Steve Earle song "Galway Girl" by Gerard Butler, but these have been omitted from the soundtrack.

Reviews

James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as "clumsy manipulative" and a "frustrating mix of the good and the bad". The execution is "negligent". Only individual scenes would work; almost all scenes with Holly and her friends would look wrong. Hilary Swank's portrayal is disappointing.

Emanuel Levy wrote on emanuellevy.com that the film was about the “enduring power of love” and contained a hopeful message (“hopeful message about the enduring power of love”). LaGravenese - whose close friend Ted Demme recently died - went to great lengths to show how the friend John McCarthy, who was friends with Gerry, felt about the loss. The character William does not appear in the novel. The filmmakers would have moved the action from Ireland to Manhattan , but they would have endeavored to leave an Irish mark as a tribute to the novelist.

The film was described on www.filmz.de as “probably the most intense farewell in film history”. The film is "touching, humorous and sentimental in the best sense of the word".

The lexicon of international films judges that the unrestrained romantic love story is part of the good tradition of touching ghost films, whereby the film does not want to be questioned rationally, but endures solely through its emotional content.

backgrounds

The film was shot in New York City and Ireland . The wide publication launched in Hungary and the Netherlands on 20 December 2007 and in the USA on 21 December 2007. The German theatrical release followed on 17 January 2008. The film played in the theatrical world's 147.7 million US dollars a .

The film is dedicated to the photographer Windland Smith Rice , who died in 2005 . A few weeks after Rice's death, her sister Molly Smith read the successful novel PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern several times. She decided to make a film version of this novel. Her father, the FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith, contributed to the financing of this film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for PS I love you . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2008 (PDF; test number: 112 673 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for PS I love you . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ speedydot001: Fairytale of New York by the pogues lyrics. October 28, 2008. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Camila Zulli: PS I Love You - Galway Girl Scene. July 30, 2010. Retrieved April 19, 2017 .
  5. ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed December 19, 2007
  6. ^ Review by Emanuel Levy, accessed December 12, 2007
  7. ↑ www.filmz.de, accessed on December 12, 2007
  8. ↑ PS I love you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  9. ^ Filming locations for PS I Love You, accessed December 12, 2007
  10. ↑ PS I Love You release dates , accessed January 17, 2008
  11. ↑ boxofficemojo.com: Box office results for PS I Love You, accessed October 25, 2008