Small Town Murder Songs
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Small Town Murder Songs |
| Original title | Small Town Murder Songs |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| script | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| production | Ed Gass-Donnelly, Lee Kim |
| music | Bruce Peninsula |
| camera | Brendan Steacy |
| cut | Ed Gass-Donnelly |
| occupation | |
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Small Town Murder Songs, also known as Small Town Murder Scenes , is a 2010 Canadian crime film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly , who also wrote the screenplay. Lee Kim produced the film alongside him. The film premiered on September 14, 2010 at the Toronto International Film Festival .
action
Walter is the chief of police in a small town in the Canadian province of Ontario . Suddenly there is a murder case to be solved there: A beautiful young woman was found naked on the shores of the nearby lake. Nobody knows the dead woman, and Walter tries to help the criminal investigator Washington from London who is taking over the case with full commitment. In addition, he has to deal with his mood swings, because behind him lies a time in which he was a feared thug, but which he believes overcome with the help of a local Mennonite clergyman .
Through the voice analysis of the anonymous emergency call received by the local police, which points to the body, two of the officers, including Walter, recognize Rita's voice. A prime suspect, Steve, is quickly found, but his girlfriend Rita gives him an alibi. Walter gets into a quandary, because he and Rita had a common past, which is not hidden from the investigating officer Washington. He suspends Walter from the case. When it turns out that the alibi is wrong, because Steve was not with Rita before the time of the crime, but temporarily in a distant amusement club, where he could have met the later victim, who worked there as a dancer, and she could have met her while giving her testimony lied, Walter faces a difficult decision. He provokes both of them for so long, also becoming violent again, until Rita revokes her statement and Steve is arrested.
background
Small Town Murder Songs was filmed on Lake Conestogo in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo , Listowel and Palmerston , Ontario.
Christian motifs with repeated quotes from the Bible and the music play a major role in the film, whereby the music also takes up Christian motifs and is often reminiscent of religious choirs. The Evangelical Press Service notes the role of music: "[...] a multi-layered film: moral image, character study, music video and crime thriller at the same time". It comes mainly from the band Bruce Peninsula , but also from Mark Revell , Diane Warren , Henegar Union Sacred Harp Convention , Damian Criswell ; the song "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" is performed as the original sound by the Mennonite community.
publication
In March 2011, it was announced that Monterey Media had acquired the rights to the film in the United States. It premiered on May 26, 2011 at the O-Cinema in the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami , Florida .
The DVD was released in the USA by Monterey Media on July 19, 2011. The German theatrical release was on June 28, 2012, before it was released on DVD on November 16, 2012 in English with German subtitles.
reception
The film received mostly positive reviews.
“The muffled drums of an ominous, past deed sound too loud for small-town policeman Walter to banish them from his mind. Law enforcement officers who quarreled with themselves have often been told - from the Catholic strictness of Abel Ferrara ('Bad Lieutenant') to the psychological differentiation of Christopher Nolan ('Insomnia - sleepless') to the violent criminal portrait of an Oren Moverman ('Rampart') ). Director Ed Gass-Donnelly ('This Beautiful City') actually knows how to gain new aspects from the well-known subject in 'Small Town Murder Songs'. The drama, dominated by a driving folk soundtrack, proves to be a grounded character study of a broken man in deeply religious Ontario. "
The review- based website Rotten Tomatoes rated the film 79 out of 100 percent, based on nine positive reviews of the website with an overall score of 6.1 / 10 points.
Stephen Cole of The Globe and Mail wrote the following positive review:
"STMS is a successful piece of creepy Ontario mood (original: 'STMS succeeds as an Ontario Gothic mood piece' )."
Awards
- Santa Catalina Film Festival 2011: best feature film
- Whistler International Film Festival 2010: Best Actress for Martha Plimpton
- Torino International Film Festival 2010: Fipresci Critic's Award for best film
- Phoenix Film Festival 2011: World cinema director for Ed Gass-Donnelly
Web links
- Small Town Murder Songs at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Small Town Murder Songs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2012 (PDF; test number: 133 501 K).
- ↑ Small Town Murder Songs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ locations
- ↑ Quoted from the broadcast page of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , where the film was broadcast on September 24, 2015 at 0.40 a.m.
- ↑ Small Town Murder Songs, the original soundtrack and Small Town Murder Songs, the soundtrack on IMDb
- ↑ Rights of the film
- ↑ World premiere
- ↑ Release of the DVD
- ↑ Publication in Germany
- ↑ Editorial review on Filmstarts.de
- ^ Reviews of Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ Review by Stephen Cole
- ^ Winner of the Santa Catalina Film Festival
- ↑ Winner of the Whister Film Festival ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Winner of the Phoenix Film Festival ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 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.
