Bedroom dispute
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bedroom dispute |
| Original title | The Pumpkin Eater |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Clayton |
| script | Harold Pinter |
| production | James Woolf |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Oswald Morris |
| cut | Jim Clark |
| occupation | |
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Bedroom dispute (Original title: The Pumpkin Eater ) is a dialog rich, British film drama from 1963 by Jack Clayton with Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch in the leading roles. Based on a script by the famous playwright Harold Pinter , the film was based on the novel The Pumpkin Eater (1962) by Penelope Mortimer .
action
Scenes of a (modern) marriage, just before the beginning of the liberal "Swinging London" era. At the center of the action is Jo Armitage, who has already been married three times and has eight children from these relationships. Her third marriage also seems on the verge of failure, as Jo learns that her current husband, Jake, a successful screenwriter, is obviously cheating on her. This realization turns her into a misanthropist who only sees everything negatively and gradually closes herself off from everyone. Despite this knowledge, Jo wants to stay with her husband, because after all he is suitable as a reliable father of the children (who are not his) and as breadwinner for the extended family. Finally, Jo and Jake take a tentative first step towards reconciliation. To do this, they get therapeutic help in the form of a psychiatrist. Two focal points soon emerged in conversations: Jo's great joy in childbearing and Jake's extramarital affairs. The question of Jo's fertility is addressed first by her psychiatrist. He suggests that she may have a moral or ethical problem with the instinctual nature of sexual intercourse and is therefore constantly getting pregnant in order to justify sex sui generis to herself. Jo follows Jake and her doctor's suggestions that she might consider having an abortion during the next (unwanted) pregnancy and then be sterilized. When this happens, Jo undergoes the operation, and she appears to be in tune with herself.
Meanwhile, there are growing signs that Jake continues to have affairs as he enjoys great success with his film scripts. The first indication of his infidelity leads to the young Philpot, who had lived under the roof of the Armitage family for a while. Jo's children once saw Philpot passed out in Jake's arms and told their mother this. When Jo asked, Jake reacts irrationally, evasively and not very convincingly. The second sign comes from Bob Conway, an acquaintance of the Armitages, who insinuates that Jake started an affair with his wife while making a film in Morocco. Eventually, Jake admits some of his missteps after Jo questioned him in an almost inquisitorial manner. Jo ventes her pent-up anger and furiously attacks her unfaithful husband. She reciprocates and begins a liaison with her divorced second husband. But Jake reacts coolly provocatively to this attempt at revenge. Towards the end of the film, Jo spends a night alone in a windmill near the converted barn where she had lived with her second husband and children. The next morning, Jake and the kids arrive there. They brought food. Jo realizes how happy her children are with Jake. With a small gesture, she shows that on the one hand she is sad about the state of her marriage, on the other hand she also realizes what she has in Jake, despite all his mistakes.
Production notes
Bedroom dispute originated in 1963 and premiered on May 9, 1964 during the Cannes International Film Festival . In Great Britain, the country of manufacture, the film was first shown on July 16 of the same year. In Germany, the bedroom dispute started on January 15, 1965, the German television premiere was on September 24, 1970 on ARD .
James H. Ware was the production manager. Edward Marshall designed the film structures, Sophie Devine the costumes. Brian West worked as a simple cameraman for Oswald Morris .
The acting veteran Cedric Hardwicke , who played Anne Bancroft's father here, gave his farewell performance in front of the camera at the age of 70.
Awards and nominations
Anne Bancroft was awarded for her interpretation of Jo 1965, a nomination for Best Actress for the Oscar and was at Cannes awarded Best Actress. In the USA she received the Golden Globe Award . In Great Britain she received the British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Actress.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jo Armitage | Anne Bancroft | Marianne Mosa |
| Jake Armitage | Peter Finch | Jürgen Thormann |
| Bob Conway | James Mason | Paul Klinger |
| Mr. James, Jo's father | Cedric Hardwicke | Klaus W. Krause |
| Giles | Richard Johnson | Martin Hirthe |
| psychiatrist | Eric Porter | Helmut Wildt |
| Philpot | Maggie Smith | Marianne Prenzel |
| Mrs. James | Rosalind Atkinson | Edith Schultze-Westrum |
| Mr. Armitage | Alan Webb | Kurt Waitzmann |
| Nanny | Faith Kent | Inge Estate |
| Party guest | Gerald Sim | Wolfgang Draeger |
Reviews
"There has never been such an unforgettably rough film."
The Lexicon of International Films found: “The playwright Harold Pinter wrote a cleverly composed screenplay devoid of sentimentality. The staging style of the film, however, moves indecisively between demanding style exercise and conventional entertainment cinema. "
“He [the movie] is solid, serious, intelligent, and stylish. He's also, for the most part, pretty dead. "
The Movie & Video Guide called the film an “intelligent, albeit long, drama” and stated “good performances everywhere, with an outstanding Bancroft”.
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as follows: “A superbly made, if fundamentally irritating kaleidoscope of lively scenes of stupid people, all fairly easily identifiable as 1960s Londoners; very well presented. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bedroom dispute in the German dubbing files .
- ↑ Bedroom dispute. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 27, 2020 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1049.
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 454.
Web links
- Bedroom dispute in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Pumpkin Eater on Turner Classic Movie