Stay (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Stay |
| Original title | Stay |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marc Forster |
| script | David Benioff |
| production |
Eric Kopeloff , Tom Lassally , Arnon Milchan |
| music | Ash & Spencer |
| camera | Roberto Schaefer |
| cut | Matt Chessé |
| occupation | |
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Stay is an American film by the German - Swiss director Marc Forster from 2005. The leading roles were played by Ewan McGregor , Ryan Gosling and Naomi Watts . David Benioff wrote the script .
In the film, different levels of reality are intertwined. The links between these levels are incomplete and leave room for different interpretations.
Particularly noteworthy is the work of the film editor Matt Chessé , who linked the individual film scenes with one another in an imaginative manner, so that the close interweaving of the various levels becomes recognizable in this way.
action
Dr. Sam Foster is a psychiatrist who was hired by his sick colleague Dr. Elisabeth Levy takes over the treatment of her patient Henry Letham. The young man is depressed and makes mysterious predictions. Finally, Henry announces that he will kill himself in a few days, namely at midnight on his 21st birthday. This is an alarm signal for Foster insofar as his girlfriend Lila also has a failed suicide attempt behind her.
Foster tries desperately to change Letham's mind, but the more he does so, the more inexplicable the events he is exposed to: he meets people who appear out of nowhere or have been dead for years. The viewer slowly realizes that Foster's attempts to help (like in a dream) take place in a different plane of reality.
In reality, Letham is dying after being in a serious car accident from a flat tire. With him in the car sat his mother, father and girlfriend, who were instantly dead. At the end of the film it becomes clear that the plot of the film revolves around the last few seconds in Letham's life. Everything happened in his brain and the actors are the people who arrive at the scene of the accident, especially the main characters Sam Foster and Lila, and strive to save the dying Letham.
Film music
Asche and Spencer wrote the soundtrack.
- Mahlus Gardens
- Opening bridge
- Dance class
- You'reReal
- Is That Your Voice?
- Fortune cookie
- Leaving The City
- Chasing Henry
- Leon Sees
- The World Is An Illusion
- Stay with me
- A Walk In The Rain
- Sam and Lila
- From Another Life
- Forgive Me
- It's too late
- Fountain
- Troubles Will Cease
- I'm Never Gonna Sleep Tonight
production
The visual style of the film is striking. Under Forster's direction, the camera often stays close to the actors' faces or seems to hover directly over the latter, which makes it even more difficult for the viewer to follow the plot, which is not stringent anyway. The impression that the characters are disoriented is reinforced by digital changes to the camera image.
Forster brought autobiographical elements into the film. His brother Wolfgang, who suffered from schizophrenia , committed suicide in 1998. His father, a successful gynecologist and pharmaceutical entrepreneur who had lost his fortune in the late 1980s, died of cancer three months later .
The clothes Ewan McGregor wears in the film were designed by Thom Browne . The strikingly short trouser and sleeve lengths are, along with narrow cuts in the style of the 1950s and 60s, a trademark of Browne's fashion to this day. The costume designer from Forster's team had seen Browne's fashion collections in Manhattan before filming began and initiated the collaboration.
Reviews
Based on the evaluation by Rotten Tomatoes, the film received mixed to negative reviews - Stay received 27 percent positive votes from specialist critics, but 71 percent positive votes from the audience. For Filmstarts.de the film is an “optically brilliant psychological thriller” and “one of the most extraordinary films of recent times”. The German cinema magazine CINEMA particularly praised the “bizarre, but never intrusive” editing. The plot rejects "conventional structures" and pleases with its "multi-layered playfulness". The lexicon of international films wrote: "Although the deliberate craftsmanship sometimes undermines the characters' credibility, the extraordinary images still exert a highly suggestive charm."
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- ↑ Release certificate for Stay . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2006 (PDF; test number: 104 692 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ www.critic.de: Stay | Criticism. In: critic.de. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .
- ^ David Colman: A New Trend for Men's Wear . In: The New York Times . October 19, 2006, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 29, 2016]).
- ↑ Stay on Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Review on Filmstarts.de
- ↑ criticism on prosieben
- ↑ Stay. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 27, 2017 .
Web links
- Stay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Marc Forster