Sin noticias de Dios
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Sin noticias de Dios |
| Country of production | Spain , France , Italy , Mexico |
| original language | Spanish , French , English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Agustín Díaz Yanes |
| script | Agustín Díaz Yanes |
| production |
Eduardo Campoy , Edmundo Gil , Gerardo Herrero , Thierry Forte , Andrea Occhipinti |
| music | Bernardo Bonezzi |
| camera | Paco Femenia |
| cut | José Salcedo |
| occupation | |
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Sin noticias de Dios (German: “Without a message from God”) is a Spanish , internationally co-produced comedy film with Victoria Abril and Penélope Cruz from 2001.
action
Angel Lola is a night club singer in heaven. Her boss Marina D'Angelo sends her to earth to save the soul of the boxer Manny for heaven, because the "business" is bad: More and more souls end up in hell. Boxer Manny sustained a serious head injury that could cost him his life in every subsequent fight. Hell's head, Jack Davenport, is after Manny's soul too, so he sends Carmen, a waitress from Hell, to him.
On earth, Lola takes the form of Manny's ex-lover and urges him to come to terms with his mother. Carmen, as Manny's alleged cousin, tries to convince him to return to the ring that would bring him death before he can transform into a better person. While Lola and Carmen fight for Manny's soul, they have to work in a supermarket for camouflage and in this way get to know the everyday problems of the earth. Manny, however, has financial worries because he owes the corrupt police chief a large sum of money.
When Davenport fears for his position due to a rebellion in Hell, he tries to make a heaven and hell deal with Marina. Without hell there is no heaven and vice versa, so his motto. People should have a choice. Therefore he wants to leave Manny's soul to heaven, even if it violates the "rules of the game". Marina gets involved in the deal, so that Lola and Carmen now try together to save Manny's soul.
To pay off his debts, they rob the supermarket. When they arrive at Manny's, the chief of police and his henchmen are waiting for them. When it becomes clear that the officers want to kill both women, Manny ensures that Lola and Carmen can escape with the money. The police then beat him to death. The whereabouts of Manny's soul are now being determined in the judgment of heaven and hell. Although he has a lot on the kerbholz, he benefits from having sacrificed himself for Lola and Carmen. His soul is allowed to go to heaven. Meanwhile, Lola and Carmen are arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. Then they want to see each other again, because Carmen will become a man through her good deed, as she was before her death. Hell had once punished her by being changed into the opposite of what she was before.
background
Director and screenwriter Agustín Díaz Yanes wrote the script especially for the two leading actresses Victoria Abril and Penélope Cruz. The interplay between heaven and hell proves to be the central theme. Heaven, filmed in black and white , is portrayed as Paris in the 1950s, where everyone speaks French and is smartly dressed, while Hell is like a prison where only English is spoken. The events on earth, however, take place in Spain . At the end of the film, actor Javier Bardem , the future husband of Penélope Cruz, has a cameo as her male alter ego .
The film celebrated its premiere in Spain on November 18, 2001, where it was subsequently nominated for the Goya in eleven categories , but ultimately got nothing. The film has not yet been released in Germany.
Reviews
For Jonathan Holland of Variety , the film was "an unusual and imaginative comedy that promises a lot, but ultimately drifts into the conventional". Although the film could come up with "delightful scenes, amusing ideas, first-class production values and a remarkable sense of style", one ultimately gets the impression "that the overly elaborate script has gotten out of control".
Dave Kehr of the New York Times described the film as "an uncoordinated, overly complicated, painfully second-rate fantasy comedy". Victoria Abril, who got "the worse role", was given two musical interludes as compensation, "in which she performs a very effective imitation of Rita Hayworth in Gilda ". Penélope Cruz is still “a strikingly beautiful woman who doesn't know how to move in front of the camera”. There is "something in her hunched gait that is very reminiscent of Popeye the sailor".
Awards
Goya
- Nominated
- Best movie
- Best Director (Agustín Díaz Yanes)
- Best Actress (Victoria Abril)
- Best Supporting Actor (Gael García Bernal)
- Best Original Screenplay (Agustín Díaz Yanes)
- Best Editing (José Salcedo)
- Best Production Management (Angélica Huete)
- Best Production Design (Javier Fernández)
- Best Score (Bernardo Bonezzi)
- Best tone
- Best makeup
Further
- Nomination for the Audience Award - Best Actress for the European Film Awards for Victoria Abril
- Prize of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos for the best film music (Bernardo Bonezzi) and three further nominations in the categories Best Director (Agustín Díaz Yanes), Best Cinematography (Paco Femenia) and Best Supporting Actor (Gael García Bernal)
- Nomination for the Fotogramas de Plata for Victoria Abril for Best Actress
- Special prize of the Turia Film Prize for Agustín Díaz Yanes
Web links
- Do not tempt me in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sin noticias de Dios at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Sin noticias de Dios in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ “An offbeat and imaginative comedy which promises much but ultimately lapses into the conventional, […], although pic is studded with delightful scenes, amusing ideas, high-gloss production and a memorable sense of style, the final impression is of an over -elaborate script out of control. " See Review: 'No News From God' ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Variety , January 18, 2002.
- ↑ “ Don't Tempt Me [is] an unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy […]. Ms. Abril, though stuck in the dowdier role, has been compensated with two musical numbers, in which she performs a fairly effective imitation of Rita Hayworth in Gilda . Ms. Cruz continues to be a strikingly beautiful woman who can't move on the screen; there is something in her hunched, rolling gait that inevitably suggests Popeye the Sailor. ” Dave Kehr : Bendito Infierno (2001) . In: The New York Times , August 22, 2003.
