Smoking Gun - Not every woman wants to be saved

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Movie
German title Smoking Gun - Not every woman wants to be saved
Original title Damsel
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2018
length 113 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Zellner ,
Nathan Zellner
script David Zellner,
Nathan Zellner
production David Zellner,
Nathan Zellner,
Chris Ohlson
music The Octopus Project
camera Adam Stone
cut Melba Robichaux
occupation
synchronization

Smoking Gun - Not every woman wants to be saved is a western by David and Nathan Zellner that premiered on January 23, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . From February 16, 2018, the film was shown in the competition at the 68th Berlinale .

action

The businessman Samuel Alabaster travels across America. On his way west, he finally wants to marry his fiancée Penelope in the mountains, but the trip turns out to be significantly different than initially planned.

production

The title of the film Damsel means something like "Fräulein" or "Jungfer" and is nowadays mostly used in the expression "damsel in distress", that is, the "virgin in distress" and thus a weak woman by a strong, male Heroes must be saved.

Directed by David Zellner , who also wrote the script together with his brother Nathan Zellner . Both had previously made the films Plastic Utopia (1997) and Kumiko, the treasure hunter (2014).

Robert Pattinson took on the role of Samuel Alabaster. Mia Wasikowska took on the role of Penelope. Damsel wasn't the first film in which Pattinson and Wasikowska stood together in front of the camera. They already shot Maps to the Stars (2014) together.

The soundtrack was composed by The Octopus Project . The soundtrack for the film, which comprises a total of 22 pieces of music, was released for download on June 22, 2018 by Milan Records.

The film premiered on January 23, 2018 as part of the Sundance Film Festival and was shown in the competition at the 68th Berlinale from February 16, 2018 . In March 2018 the film was presented at the South by Southwest Film Festival . Magnolia Pictures and Great Point Media entered into a partnership to distribute the film in the United States. A theatrical release there took place on June 22, 2018. In August 2018, the film was shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

reception

Reviews

Robert Pattinson , Nathan Zellner , David Zellner and Mia Wasikowska at the press conference as part of the Berlin International Film Festival

So far, the film has won over 80 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics . Damsel did poorly in the international review of the British trade magazine Screen International , where he came second to last of all Berlinale competition films with 1.4 out of 4 possible stars, ahead of Eva (1.3). Wes Anderson's animated film Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey (3.3) topped the ranking.

Ula Brunner from RBB 24 thinks the first few minutes of the film are promising, with dust-dry humor, a scene that reminds one of waiting for Godot and a really wonderful Robert Forster in his five-minute appearance as a priest. Even Robert Pattinson is a wonderful Samuel Alabaster, vain and very much in love when he touches again and again with the tongue tip his golden tooth. Brunner also recognizes a classic western plot from which the events develop, but in a completely unforeseen way, because in Damsel the genre targets itself. The narrative flow becomes slow at some point, according to Brunner, from the second half the story gets into a dead end, and despite the grotesque, funny details and surprising twists, the plot does not carry the entire length of the feature film.

Martin Schwickert of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten says that in Damsel the brothers Nathan and David Zellner are bringing the gender struggle to where the myth of the tough man has persisted most persistently, referring to the western genre. In this film, the real guys in the Wild West have long since become insane and are only suitable for extremely demolished heroism, Schwickert continues, and for them women become a projection screen for purity, love and happiness. The fabulous Mia Wasikowska cleared up these structures so thoroughly in this successful western parody that her character could go down in the annals of the Berlinale as the first heroine of the #Metoo era , according to Schwickert.

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival 2018

Web links

Commons : Damsel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clearance Certificate for Smoking Gun - Not every woman wants to be rescued . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 186988 / V). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c Damsel In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  3. ↑ Michael Nordine: Robert Pattinson to Headline the Zellner Brothers' Western 'Damsel', Their Followup to 'Kumiko' In: indiewire.com, July 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ 'Damsel' soundtrack details. In: filmmusicreporter.com, June 14, 2018.
  5. ↑ 2018 Sundance Film Festival: Feature Films Announced In: sundance.org, November 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ Program of the Sundance Film Festival 2018 In: sundance.org. Retrieved January 13, 2018 (PDF; 258 KB)
  7. ↑ Press releases for the 68th Berlinale competition ( memento of the original from January 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de 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. In: berlinale.de, January 22, 2018.
  8. ↑ Dave McNary: SXSW Film Festival Lineup Unveiled, John Krasinski's 'A Quiet Place' Set as Opener In: Variety, January 31, 2018.
  9. ↑ http://variety.com/2018/film/news/robert-pattinson-mia-wasikowska-damsel-magnolia-1202724350/
  10. ↑ Damsel. In: miff.com. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ Damsel In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved May 22, 2018. Note: The Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes shows what percentage of the registered critics gave the film a positive rating.
  12. ^ Dalton, Ben: 'Isle Of Dogs' tops Screen's final Berlin Jury Grid; Golden Bear winner 'Touch Me Not' scores low . In: screendaily.com, February 26, 2018 (accessed March 8, 2018).
  13. ↑ Ula Brunner: Film review 'Damsel': When things get shitty in a fascinating way In: RBB 24, February 16, 2018.
  14. ↑ Martin Schwickert: Second competition day Berlinale: The myth of the tough man has had its day In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, February 16, 2018.