Palindromes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Palindromes |
| Original title | Palindromes |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Todd Solondz |
| script | Todd Solondz |
| production | Mike S. Ryan, Derrick Tseng |
| music | Nathan Larson |
| camera | Tom Richmond |
| cut | Mollie Goldstein, Kevin Messman |
| occupation | |
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Palindrome is a 2004 American film directed by Todd Solondz , who also wrote the screenplay.
action
The twelve-year-old Aviva, embodied in the film by seven different actresses and one actor, wants nothing more than to have a baby as soon as possible. Her own mother thinks this is a childish fantasy and is amazed when one day her daughter is actually pregnant. In her horror, she forces the girl to have an abortion - but the traumatic intervention does not change anything in Aviva's desire to finally become a mother.
Because she feels betrayed by her parents and is still driven by the desire to have a baby, Aviva runs away from home. However, her whole journey remains unsuccessful and also pointless, as she has become sterile as a result of the abortion, which her parents have kept from her.
Eventually Aviva ends up in an extended Christian fundamentalist family. Its focus is the emphatically inspired Mama Sunshine, who has made it her life's mission to offer unwanted children a cozy nest. Aviva is well integrated into the family, but even the supposed paradise turns out to be a dead end in the end. Because the Sunshines are radical anti-abortionists who even go so far as to have an abortion doctor shot.
In the end, a still child-like Aviva announces that she is now sure that she is pregnant again.
The different actors of the Aviva
- Emani Sledge (in the part "Dawn")
- Valerie Shusterov (in the "Judah" part)
- Hannah Freiman (in the "Henry" part)
- Rachel Corr (in the "Henrietta" part)
- Will Denton (in the "Huckleberry" part)
- Sharon Wilkins (in the "Mama Sunshine" part)
- Shayna Levine (in the "Bob" part)
- Jennifer Jason Leigh (in the "Mark" part)
reception
The New York Times said the real problem with the film isn't that Solondz is going too far, "it doesn't seem to have any particular direction in mind, no artistic interest beyond the limitless ugliness of humanity."
In the film service it was read that Palindrome was "[...] with its mania of pulling the floor from under your feet to all ideological conventions, an eminently political film" . The film "with its forced negativity, however, will have a hard time reaching an audience that would benefit from this cleverness."
Awards
Todd Solondz's Palindrome was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 2004 . Mike S. Ryan was nominated for the 2006 Independent Spirit Award .
Web links
- Palindromes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Palindromes at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Palindromes at Metacritic (English)
- To understand the film, the director's comments http://www.alamodefilm.de/medium/detail/palindrome.html
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.critic.de/film/palindrome-145/
- ↑ Motherhood in Its Grim Permutations , New York Times, October 15, 2004
- ↑ film-dienst, April 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 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.
