Silent tongue

Movie
German title	Silent tongue
Original title	Silent tongue
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1994
length	102 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Sam Shepard
script	Sam Shepard
production	Ludi Boeken , Carolyn Pfeiffer
music	Patrick O'Hearn
camera	Jack Conroy
cut	Bill Yahraus
occupation
Richard Harris : Prescott Roe River Phoenix : Talbot Roe Alan Bates : Eamon McCree Dermot Mulroney : Reeves McCree Jeri Arredondo : Velada McCree Sheila Tousey : Awbonnie McCree / Ghost Tantoo Cardinal : Silent Tongue Bill Irwin : comedian David Shiner : The serious one Billy Beck : The petrified one

Silent Tongue (Original title: Silent Tongue ), also known as Silent Tongue - The Revenge of the Spirits , is a feature film from 1994 . The drama was directed by Sam Shepard , who also wrote the script. Mire and the French Belbo Films and Canal + produced the western .

action

Night after night, Talbot Roe sits by the campfire on the prairie and watches over the body of his wife Awbonnie, which he has laid out in a treetop. She died in the miscarriage of their child. The only thing he feels is sadness and madness.

In the opening sequence, he shoots an eagle, which he rips off the wings and adorns the rotting body of his wife. He doesn't like to let his wife go, not even when a demon climbs out of her one night and threatens him. Horrified by all this, Talbot's father rides across the country trying to find a new wife for his son. He finds it with a fraudulent ringmaster whose daughter is the main attraction of the show. The fact that it is not the first meeting of the two men is deciphered in the form of flashbacks in the course of the film.

backgrounds

The film was shot in 1991 but didn't hit theaters until 1994. He was near Roswell , New Mexico turned. It is the penultimate film with River Phoenix and was released in theaters after his death in 1993.

reception

The film opened in just three US cinemas on February 1, 1994, grossing a total of around $ 60,000. Silent Tongue was released in German cinemas on November 3rd of the same year.

Critics were divided about the Silent Tongue . Rita Kempley compared the April 15, 1994, film in the Washington Post to Clint Eastwood's Merciless . The film is a fascinating mixture of Greek, Roman, Irish and American mythology, elegant revisionism and traditional theater. Peter Traves praised Rolling Stone that River Phoenix was an unusually talented actor and that he would deliver one of his ambitious performances in Silent Tongue . He called Silent Tongue a hypnotic mess. In Germany, the lexicon of international film judged very positively: "A thematically and formally unusual, complex drama about guilt and atonement, which combines motifs from the Indian film with a mythical ghost story as well as themes from classic American tragedy and Shakespearean royal dramas." impressively; in this way a compression of all of its elements in a "radical-consistent way" succeeds in a "gloomy reflection on the lost of people."

Web links

• Silent Tongue in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for the silent tongue . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2004 (PDF; test number: 72 127 V / DVD).
2. ↑ Washington Post
3. ^ Rolling Stone
4. ↑ Silent tongue. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .