Raining Stones
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Raining Stones |
| Original title | Raining Stones |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Ken Loach |
| script | Jim Allen |
| production | Sally Hibbin |
| music | Stewart Copeland |
| camera | Barry Ackroyd |
| cut | Jonathan Morris |
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Raining Stones is a British tragic comedy by Ken Loach from 1993. The title comes from the phrase it's raining stones ( something like : "It comes very quickly ").
action
Bob lives with his wife Anne and their daughter Coleen in a small industrial town in the north of England. Bob has been out of work for a long time and keeps afloat with odd jobs. He and his friend Tommy usually pass the time with petty criminal tricks, horse betting and pub visits. Things often go wrong, for example both of them steal a ram from a pasture in order to slaughter the animal and sell the meat to a butcher, who is only interested in lamb. Both men are hardly successful in trying to sell the mutton in a pub. Since Tommy again leaves the key in the van, the car has disappeared after their pub sales tour. He won't find himself again and Bob's chances of finally finding a permanent job again are hopeless without a car. He urgently needed the money: his seven-year-old daughter is supposed to be wearing a new communion dress for her communion in a few weeks , which will cost around 70 pounds - money that Bob doesn't have. Out of pride he refuses to accept Father Barry's offer to bring Coleen to communion in a second-hand dress.
One day, Bob defiantly went with his wife and daughter to a shop selling communion dresses and bought a dress as well as other items of equipment for which he ended up paying 105 pounds. Anne is flabbergasted, but Bob claims he won the money in horse racing. In the following years he kept himself afloat with smaller jobs, helping with illegal lawn cutting and trying his hand at a bouncer in a disco. After a few hours he is released because he discovers that his friend Tommy's daughter is dealing with drugs in the club, he confronts them and has a fight with the supposed dealer. Because he would not get a job without a car, he buys a new van in installments. Bob thinks things will look better now.
While shopping for communion, loan shark Tansey appears in his apartment and threatens Anne and Coleen. Bob owed 150 pounds and he, Tansey, bought that debt, so Bob now owes him money. With interest, the amount is over £ 200, which he now wants to collect. Tansey threatens Anne, removes her wedding ring and announces she will be back. Bob finds his family in a panic. He is horrified to hear of Tansey's appearance and now wants to take care of the matter himself. Armed with a heavy wrench, he leaves the house. During the afternoon he drinks his courage and confronts Tansey when he comes out of a bar alone in the evening and looks for his car in an underground car park. There was a duel, at the end of which Bob lay defeated on the ground. When Tansey tries to drive away in the car, Bob smashes the windshield with the wrench. Tansey loses control of the car and crashes into a concrete pillar at full speed. He dies instantly. Bob takes the debt book with his name on it and flees. He goes to Father Barry, who advises him not to tell anyone about the incident, since Tansey’s death makes countless people easier. He takes his confession from him and burns the debt books. A few days later, Coleen's communion takes place, during which the girl looks beautiful. Bob reacts nervously to a police car that shows up in the area. He doesn't know yet that the police officers actually ring his doorbell - to inform him that his stolen car has been found and that he can pick it up at the station.
production
Raining Stones was filmed in Langley, Middleton ( Greater Manchester ), among others . It ran in competition at the 46th Cannes International Film Festival in May 1993 and was released in British cinemas on October 8, 1993. In Germany it was shown in cinemas from March 16, 1994 and ran for the first time on ARD on German television on November 1, 1995. In 2010 the film was released on DVD by Arthouse.
criticism
The film service called Raining Stones a "film developed with quiet humor and touching humanity, which tells full of affection and understanding of the daily struggle for survival in an economically run-down country, of the impending loss of human dignity and of the hope for higher justice. “ Der Spiegel praised the film for its“ rude charm and [its] cheeky liveliness ”and called it“ a simply successful thing ”.
Awards
At the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival, the film won the jury's award and ran in the competition for the Palme d'Or .
At the BAFTA Awards in 1994, Sally Hibbin and Ken Loach were nominated for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for Raining Stones . The film won the Spanish Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Prize for Best Foreign Film in 1994 and was nominated for a César in the same category in the same year . Raining Stones received the 1994 Evening Standard British Film Awards for Best Picture and Best Screenplay . The film won the 1994 award for the best foreign film of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma , the ALFS Award of the London Critics Circle Film Awards and a Nastro d'Argento des Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani for best European film.
In 1995 Raining Stones was nominated for a Goya for Best European Film (Mejor Película Europea).
Web links
- Raining Stones in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Raining Stones. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Hole in the head . In: Der Spiegel , No. 13, 1994, p. 232.