Puzzle (2018)

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Movie
Original title puzzle
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 103 minutes
Rod
Director Marc Turtletaub
script Oren Moverman
production Wren Arthur ,
Peter Saraf ,
Guy Stodel
music Dustin O'Halloran
camera Chris Norr
cut Catherine Haight
occupation

Puzzle is a film drama directed by Marc Turtletaub that premiered on January 23, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival and was released in US cinemas on July 27, 2018.

action

Agnes lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut and rarely leaves the house. She's preparing everything for a birthday party. The house that previously belonged to her parents has not been renovated for a long time and is also poorly decorated. While she serves drinks and snacks to the guests, she waits for her husband Louie and their adult sons Ziggy and Gabe. She is not very enthusiastic about her first smartphone, which she received as a gift, but the 1,000-piece puzzle gives her pleasure in quiet hours. After she has reassembled it several times and then disassembled it again, she takes the train to Lower Manhattan to buy more puzzles in a specialty store. There she discovers a sign at the cash register that a puzzle champion is looking for a partner for various competitions. Agnes tears the phone number off the clue and meets with Robert, a very rich man. Little by little, Agnes realizes that self-actualization and a romantic love were the things that were missing in her life.

production

Indian actor Irrfan Khan took on the role of Robert

The film follows on from the Argentine drama Rompecabezas by Natalia Smirnoff from 2010.

Marc Turtletaub , who in the past mainly worked as a film producer, made his directorial debut in a feature film with the film. Oren Moverman adapted Smirnoff's script for the new edition.

Kelly Macdonald played the lead role of Agnes. Her husband Louie was cast with David Denman , and her son Gabe was cast with Austin Abrams . Irrfan Khan plays her new puzzle partner, Robert

The film music was composed by Dustin O'Halloran . The soundtrack for the film, which comprises a total of 16 pieces of music, was released for download by Sony Masterworks on July 27, 2018.

The film premiered on January 23, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . In May 2018 the film was presented at the Montclair Film Festival and opened on June 20, 2018 the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In June and July 2018, the film will celebrate its German premiere in the Spotlight section at the Munich Film Festival . A theatrical release in the USA took place on July 27, 2018. In autumn 2018 it was screened at the Zurich Film Festival .

reception

Director Marc Turtletaub at the launch of the film at the Montclair Film Festival 2018

Age ratings and reviews

In the USA, the film received an R rating from the MPAA , which corresponds to a rating of 17 and over.

The film received a rather positive rating so far from 84 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics .

Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter says that while there is a narrative imperative for Agnes and Robert's acquaintance to turn into a romance at the end of the film, both filmmaker Marc Turtletaub and the cast tried to keep the pieces of the puzzle not too obvious to add. Agnes' husband Louie acts a bit like an old sexist booby, but he is not a bad guy, and there is something hilariously honest in a way. Kelly Macdonald , with her distinctive features like a Madonna, is so natural in her role, especially with Irrfan Khan , that both the structure of the film and the ambiguous open ending seemed completely believable, so Felperin. Most of the technical aspects of the film are inconspicuous, according to Felperin, apart from the gripping score by Dustin O'Halloran and the use of different versions of Ave Maria , in one version sung in an unforgettable way by the countertenor Matthew Shifrin .

Awards

Heartland Film 2018

  • Received the Truly Moving Picture Award

Web links

Commons : Puzzle  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Leslie Felperin: 'Puzzle' Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter, January 29, 2018.
  2. ↑ https://www.edinburghfestivalcity.com/news/793-film-festival-2018-opening-and-closing-premieres-revealed
  3. ↑ a b Stewart Clarke: Marc Turtletaub's 'Puzzle', Starring Kelly Macdonald, to Open Edinburgh International Film Festival. In: Variety, April 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Dustin O'Halloran to Score Marc Turtletaub's 'Puzzle'. In: filmmusicreporter.com, September 27, 2017.
  5. ↑ 'Puzzle' Soundtrack to Be Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, June 14, 2018.
  6. ↑ Puzzle. In: filmfest-muenchen.de. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
  7. ↑ https://zff.com/de/archiv/20506/
  8. ↑ Puzzle. In: comingsoon.net. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ Puzzle. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 24, 2020.