Glass lock (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Castle of Glass |
| Original title | The Glass Castle |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| script | Destin Daniel Cretton |
| production | Ken Kao, Gil Netter |
| music | Joel P. West |
| camera | Brett Pawlak |
| cut | Nat Sanders |
| occupation | |
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Glass Castle (AKA The Glass Castle ) is an American film biography of Destin Daniel Cretton and is based on the novel by Jeannette Walls in 2005. In the autobiographical bestseller Walls described her difficult childhood with a highly intelligent, but alcoholic father and an artistically talented but domineering mother. The film was released in US cinemas on August 11, 2017 and in German cinemas on September 21, 2017.
action
For Jeannette Walls, life is a mixture of adventure and nightmare, because all of her previous life she had to wander through the USA with her parents and three siblings. This was mainly due to the fact that her father cannot keep a job and also feels that he is being persecuted by the FBI. Often the children have to starve and run around in tattered clothes. Again and again they go to the desert cities in the southwest of the USA or camp in the mountains. Her father promises the young girl that one day they will live in a castle made of glass, but the parents' lie is about to collapse.
Biographical background
The film is based on the autobiographical novel Schloss aus Glas (original title The Glass Castle: A Memoir ) by Jeannette Walls from 2005, in which she wrote down her childhood memories. The book became a bestseller and has been translated into 31 languages. In Germany alone, glass locks have sold over 500,000 times and have been on the Spiegel bestseller list for 26 weeks. The novel biography about her grandmother, An Untamed Life , published in 2009, made it onto the Spiegel bestseller list for 115 weeks. In a glass castle, Walls describes her difficult childhood and how her parents wandered around the United States with four children. In the first five years of their marriage, her parents had 27 addresses because her father could not stay in a job and had no money for rent. In addition, the alcoholic and probably bipolar Rex felt he was being followed by the FBI. Rose Mary, her mother, was also likely bipolar and considered herself an artist.
The children often went hungry, had to run around in tattered clothes and were therefore teased by their classmates in the various schools they attended. When the family returned to their father Welch's hometown in the Appalachian Mountains, they lived with relatives in a house with three rooms without water, electricity and heating, where it was damp, dirty and teeming with vermin, snakes and rats. Since Jeannette could not stand this anymore, she made her way to New York at the age of 17, where she lived in the Bronx with her older sister Lori. There she graduated from high school, borrowed money from all kinds of people, and worked in a law firm to finance her studies at New York's Barnard College. At the age of 27, Walls started a gossip columnist for New York Magazine, married an entrepreneur, and lived on Park Avenue for eight years. With the proceeds from the sale of her book, published in 2006, Jeannette Walls built her mother's house next to her own.
production
Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton , who also adapted Walls' memoir for the film.
Brie Larson took on the role of Jeannette Walls in the film , and when she was ten, she was played by Ella Anderson . Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson play her parents Rose Mary and Rex Walls. Sarah Snook plays Jeannette's sister Lori, Shree Crooks plays the 7-year-old sister Maureen and Charlie Shotwell plays the brother Brian at this age. Crooks and Shotwell had already taken on a similar role in the film Captain Fantastic - once wilderness and back . Max Greenfield plays David.
Filming began in June 2016 and took place in Montreal, New Mexico and Welch in West Virginia, among others.
The film was released in US cinemas on August 11, 2017 and in German cinemas on September 21, 2017. In autumn 2017, there were also three screenings at the Zurich Film Festival .
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film is shaped by numerous conflicts and terrifying events within the family (e.g. the father's withdrawal from alcohol). There are always fights (e.g. when the grandmother hits a child in the face). However, children and young people from the age of 12 are able to place these scenes in the context of the story and to process them. Happy moments in the family as well as the cohesion of the self-confident children also have a relief, so that viewers from 12 years of age do not have to fear emotional overload. "
Reviews
Anke Sterneborg from epd Film thinks that the walls reminded a bit of Viggo Mortensen's wild dropout family in the film Captain Fantastic - Once Wilderness and Back , only that the paradisiacal adventure of freedom and independence has a dark side here, because Rex has an inner emptiness Alcohol fills. Just like Mortensen, Woody Harrelson enriches this role with his very own authentic indie spirit : "a little over the top, a little weird and very true, always thrilling and devastating at the same time."
From the German Film and Media Review is Glass Castle with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The reasoning states that Cretton succeeds in “telling the story in a clear and complex way, without turning the father and mother into bad parents, that is, perpetrators. You have a great, anarchist and very American vision of the free life that does not include responsibly raising your own children. "
Gross profit
The film has earned US $ 17.8 million worldwide from screenings to date. On September 21, the film entered the German art house cinema charts at number 2. In Germany, the film has so far recorded 104,211 visitors.
Honors
On December 18, 2017, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Joel P. West's work was on a shortlist from which the nominations for the Best Film Music category will be made at the 2018 Academy Awards . On the same day, the Academy announced that the song Summer Storm used in the film was in a shortlist of 70 songs, from which the nominations in the category of best movie song will be determined.
Web links
- Glass Castle in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Lock made of glass in the German synchronous file
- Glass Castle atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Glass castle in the program of the Zurich Film Festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for lock made of glass . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 171355 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for lock made of glass . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Hoffmann and Campe: Book Preview Autumn 2013 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2013 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.
- ↑ Alex Witchell: Dear Raven Mother In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, issue 41/2013.
- ↑ Gregory Wakeman: Brie Larson's The Glass Castle Is Putting Together An Incredible Cast In: cinemablend.com. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
- ↑ Nick Romano: 'The Glass Castle' With Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts Begins Filming In: collider.com, June 6, 2016.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
- ↑ https://zff.com/de/festival-info/news/2017/1813/vikander-euphoria-galapremieren-medienmitteilung/
- ^ Reasons for the release of a lock made of glass In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Critique of the glass lock . In: "epd Film", August 28, 2017.
- ↑ Lock made of glass . In: fbw-filmbeval.com . German film and media rating. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- ^ The Glass Castle In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
- ↑ https://www.programmkino.de/content/index.php?id=313
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
- ↑ Zack Sharf: Oscars 2018: Best Original Score Shortlist Includes 'The Shape of Water', 'All the Money in the World' and More In: indiewire.com, December 18, 2017.
- ↑ 70 Original Songs Vie For 2017 Oscar In: oscars.org, December 18, 2017.
