Shampoo (film)

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Movie
German title shampoo
Original title shampoo
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (formerly 18)
Rod
Director Hal Ashby
script Warren Beatty ,
Robert Towne
production Warren Beatty
music Paul Simon
camera László Kovács
cut Robert C. Jones
occupation

Shampoo is an American comedy film of Hal Ashby from the year 1975 .

action

The film shows the events on the day in 1968 on which Richard Nixon was elected US President . George Roundy is a sought-after hairdresser. Roundy has a relationship with Jill; but he also has an affair with Felicia, who is married to the entrepreneur Lester. Roundy is not satisfied with his professional life and wants to start his own business . He visits Lester to persuade him to invest in his hair salon.

Roundy is invited by Lester to a high society election party to discuss further details of the investment. Lester's lover Jackie Shawn, who also has a relationship with Roundy, causes a scandal there. Lester later ends up at a hippie party, where he discovers Roundy and Jackie making love. Jill is there too and now turns away from Roundy.

The hairdresser is visited a few days later by Lester, who tells him his way of life. Lester accompanies two well-built men who threaten Roundy. Roundy and Lester speak openly to each other; at the end of the conversation, Lester reveals that he wants to leave his wife. He is considering a stake in Roundy's salon again.

Roundy finds out that he is in love with Jackie. He proposes to her, but she replies that Lester had promised her to get a divorce and take her to Acapulco . In the end, Lester picks her up in a limousine while Roundy watches her from a nearby hill.

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles . In the US cinemas, where it opened on February 11, 1975, it grossed almost 50 million US dollars. On September 12, 1975, the cinema was released in Germany .

Hal Ashby's wife, Joan Marshall, has a small role as Mrs. Schumann.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times that based on the cast list he expected the film to impress him. The movie didn't touch him ("the movie didn't quite work for me"). The lexicon of international films criticized the film as a "cynical, slippery comedy" that treats the psychological and political aspects superficially. The USA would be presented as a “run-down beauty salon”, in which “promiscuity, greed and poor relationships prevail” behind the beautiful facade.

Video.de said: “Producer, screenwriter and leading actor Warren Beatty ( Ishtar ) targeted his image as a lover in this 13 year old bitter comedy. The late 1988 deceased director Hall Ashby ( Harold and Maude ) found fascinating images for the superficial life in Beverly Hills. At the time the film caused a sensation because of its sexual permissiveness, nowadays the brilliant actors, u. a. Goldie Hawn ( Overboard ) and Julie Christie ( Heaven shall wait ) attracted a larger audience. Medium to good sales expectation. "

Awards

Lee Grant won the 1976 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Jack Warden received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor . Warren Beatty and Robert Towne were nominated for Best Original Screenplay and W. Stewart Campbell, George Gaines and Richard Sylbert for Best Production Design.

The film received five nominations in 1976 for a Golden Globe , in the category Best Picture - Musical or Comedy , and one each for Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and Lee Grant. Jack Warden was nominated for the BAFTA Award in 1976 . The screenwriters won the National Society of Film Critics Award in 1975 and the Writers Guild of America Award in 1976 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Shampoo in the Internet Movie Database .
  2. ↑ a b shampoo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 24, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert , accessed on November 28, 2012.