Tarnation (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tarnation |
| Original title | Tarnation |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Caouette |
| script | Jonathan Caouette |
| production | Jonathan Caouette, Stephen Winter |
| camera | Jonathan Caouette |
| cut | Jonathan Caouette |
Tarnation ("Damn!") Is an American , autobiographical documentary from 2003 . Jonathan Caouette was the scriptwriter , director and cameraman at the same time .
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Tarnation is the film document of a reappraisal of Jonathan Caouette's family history . At the beginning of the film, Jonathan Caouette receives news that his mother Renee LeBlanc has been hospitalized with a lithium overdose . From here the film rolls up the childhood and adolescence of the filmmaker like a collage , who filmed his surroundings with the Super 8 camera as a teenager . It is these Super 8 film sequences (sometimes several side by side using split screen ) that are assembled together with recent video recordings, family photos, text and music to form a dense and lively filmic self-portrait and of the close relationship with a mother, who, due to the diagnosis of schizophrenia, went through a large number of stays in psychiatry, told of growing up with their grandparents and the late encounter with their father.
Reviews
- Lexicon of the international film : “The virtuoso edited film demands a lot from the viewer, but rewards with multi-layered insights into an injured psyche and its self-therapy with the help of the film as well as with a family story that can hardly be told more vividly. A look at American society that is almost reminiscent of David Lynch. "
- Joachim Schätz on filmzentrale.com : “Jonathan Caouette's autotherapeutic home movie family epic Tarnation tells in a formally agile and emotionally complex way about a long-suffering mother-son relationship. An impressive / unsettling personal film. "
Awards
- At the Independent Spirit Awards 2005 , the film Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette was awarded in the category Best Documentation .
- In 2004 the film received the Sutherland Trophy at The Times bfi London Film Festival .
Web links
- Tarnation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Weblog about the film and filmmaker
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- ^ Tarnation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Filmzentrale.com - Review by Joachim Schätz on Tarnation