Postcards from London

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Movie
German title Postcards from London
Original title Postcards from London
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steve McLean
script Steve McLean
music Julian Bayliss
camera Annika Summerson
cut Stephen Boucher
occupation

Postcards from London is a film drama directed by Steve McLean that premiered on March 17, 2018 as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

action

The beautiful and wonderfully talented Jim makes it to Soho from Essex, northeast of London. On his first night he is robbed, but finds refuge with the "Raconteurs", a group of call boys who are as dedicated to art as they are to sex. He joins them. Because Jim suffers from Stendhal Syndrome , a rare psychosomatic disorder that occasionally causes him to hallucinate, his job is not always easy.

production

History of origin

Director and screenwriter Steve McLean adapted autobiographical writings by the performance artist David Wojnarowicz for the film and moved the setting to England. The American artist, author, photographer and film producer became known as an artist in New York's cultural scene in the 1970s and especially the 1980s. He made Super 8 films such as heroin , started a photo series about Arthur Rimbaud and was a member of the band 3 Teens Kill 4 . In the early 1980s Wojnarowicz met the photographer Peter Hujar , who encouraged him to devote more time to visual art. Wojnarowicz worked with other artists such as Nan Goldin , Kiki Smith , Richard Kern and Bob Ostertag and exhibited his artwork in well-known galleries in the East Village in New York City. Wojnarowicz died in 1992 of complications from AIDS. Postcards from London is McLean's second feature film, which in 1994 completed his film with the title Postcards from America as part of the New Queer Cinema . The film music was composed by Julian Bayliss .

occupation

Harris Dickinson , a few months after the filming ended, took on the role of Jim in the film

Harris Dickinson took on the role of Jim, Leonardo Salerni plays Marcello and Ben Cura is seen in the role of Caravaggio. Other roles were cast with Raphael Desprez , Leo Hatton , Alessandro Cimadamore and Trevor Cooper .

publication

The film premiered on March 17, 2018 as part of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. From March 31, 2018, it was presented at the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival and shown at the Munich Film Festival in June and July 2018 . It was released in selected cinemas in the United Kingdom and Ireland on August 17, 2018 and in German cinemas on December 13, 2018. It was also published on DVD.

reception

Age rating

In Germany, he received a release from the age of 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film is staged in an emphatically artful, almost theatrical manner and the demanding dialogues revolve primarily around art and culture. The subject of prostitution is only dealt with in dialogues and there are no sex scenes . In the foreground is the story of the main character's development and self-discovery. Children and young people from the age of 12 can easily follow the plot, and even if they may not understand all the references to art and film history , this will not have a negative effect. Impairments can therefore be ruled out. "

Reviews

In his review, Stefan Hochgesand from the Berlin city magazine Zitty emphasizes the highly cultural chatter about the masterpieces of art history instead of the cigarette afterwards: "The film invents this idea in a witty way that never turns into crude silliness." Hochgesand goes on to explain that you have to the overflowing cult film allusions, for example to Gus van Sant's My Private Idaho and Derek Jarmans Caravaggio , are not even recognized as such in order to have “sophisticated fun”. Postcards from London has a loving lightness that is addicting: “No single setting could be more perfectly illuminated. Gay arthouse has never been so funny, fun and clever at the same time. "

In a review by the dpa it is said that, despite its grandiose idea, the action in the film babbles more and more leisurely from halfway through at the latest, only to fray in a kind of slow motion. Nevertheless, it is worth paying attention to the successful elements: “There is a look back at his parents' home, lined with 1970s wallpaper, from which Jim so desperately wants to break out. There are his hallucinations in which he himself becomes the object of his favorite painter Caravaggio. There is the neglected prostitute from the street, who a short time later becomes Jim's doctor. "

The film service wrote: “With a highly artificial setting and visual borrowings from Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Kenneth Anger , Wong Kar-wai and Derek Jarman , the homage to a homosexual cultural history revives a bygone era. Aesthetically, queer subculture and early baroque meet without the wonderful imagery being able to draw much strength from it. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Postcards from London . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b https://www.filmfest-muenchen.de/de/programm/filmarchiv/film/?id=5854
  3. ↑ http://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/beach-rats-harris-dickinson-sundance-interview-1201768108/
  4. ^ Postcards from London. In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
  6. ^ Reasons for the release of Postcards from London In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ https://www.zitty.de/postcards-from-london/
  8. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/kino/article215981747/Postcards-from-London-Liebeserklaerung-an-die-Metropole.html
  9. ^ Postcards from London. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved April 27, 2019.