The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity

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Movie
German title The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity
Original title The Hours
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Stephen Daldry
script David Hare
production Robert Fox
Scott Rudin
music Philip Glass
Richard Strauss
camera Seamus McGarvey
cut Peter Boyle
occupation

The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity by Stephen Daldry is the film adaptation from the year 2002 of the Pulitzer Prize- winning novel The Hours (original title: The Hours ) by Michael Cunningham .

action

The film follows the fate of three women from different generations whose lives are related to Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway . He follows the lives of the three protagonists for one day from morning to evening. The film takes place in three time levels: 1923 , 1951 and 2001 , the then present. He makes use of the cinematic means of parallel montage . The 1923 time plane tells the story of Virginia Woolf , who lives with her writer husband Leonard Woolf in the English provinces. Cared for by her family and the doctor, she begins the novel Mrs. Dalloway . In 1951, Laura Brown and her young son prepared for her husband Dan's birthday and read the very same novel that had a strong influence on her. In the present, Clarissa Vaughan is preparing an awards party for her friend Richard Brown, who has AIDS . The Hours can thus be seen as a modern version of Mrs. Dalloway . From writer to reader, to today's living version of Mrs. Dalloway , Clarissa's life is so tied to the character Mrs. Dalloway that it appears she is Mrs. Dalloway.

Virginia Woolf

Virginia wakes up one morning in 1923 and has an idea for her new novel. She starts writing to Mrs. Dalloway . Her previous work phases were always characterized by phases of lethargy , depression and mental disorders. Her life seems to be determined by her husband and the doctors. She feels trapped and tries to put these feelings on paper in Mrs. Dalloway .

In 1941 she decided to die in the river. This last storyline forms the framework for the entire film.

Laura Brown

Laura wakes up on the day of her husband Dan's birthday in 1951 and reaches for Mrs. Dalloway . Like Virginia, she doesn't feel like the mistress of her life. She loves her neighbor, but realizes that as long as she remains in marriage to Dan, she can never live out these feelings. She is preparing to bake a cake with her son Richi. Meanwhile she plans her suicide and drives to a hotel. However, she does not find herself able to complete her plan. She returns home and makes plans for the future.

Clarissa Vaughan

Clarissa worked as an editor in New York City in 2001 and is in a relationship with her friend Sally. She starts the day by buying flowers for the party that is to be given in the evening. She also lives in a prison that she herself set up through her bond with Richard, a childhood sweetheart. Richard - as it later turns out: the son of Laura Brown - who lets his mother die in his novel, is seriously ill with AIDS and is cared for by Clarissa. He calls her Mrs. Dalloway and shows her that her life is just as trivial as that of the character in the novel. She is still waiting for the past to repeat itself with him, for the hours of shared happiness to return. And he makes it clear to her that this expectation makes it impossible for her to be happy with Sally. He wants to free her from him by throwing himself out of the window. Finally, Clarissa receives an unexpected visitor in the evening. Laura Brown, 80 years old, is at the door. In a conversation she gives Clarissa insights that enable her to understand that her life will bring her many hours of happiness to come.

The film ends with Virginia's walk into the river and the final sentence of her letter to her husband: The years between us forever. Forever the years. Forever love. Forever: the hours .

Others

Nicole Kidman can hardly be recognized in this film because of her mask, as she had to wear both a wig and a fake nose to look more like the real Virginia Woolf. She also wore her nose outside of the film studios to deceive the paparazzi who actually didn't recognize her.

synchronization

The synchronized work was done in the Babelsberg studio . Marianne Groß wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Virginia Woolf Nicole Kidman Petra Barthel
Laura Brown Julianne Moore Katharina Lopinski
Clarissa Vaughan Meryl Streep Dagmar Dempe
Leonard Woolf Stephen Dillane Benjamin Völz
Vanessa Bell Miranda Richardson Gertie Honeck
Richard Brown Ed Harris Wolfgang Condrus
Dan Brown John C. Reilly Detlef Bierstedt
Kitty Toni Collette Traudel Haas
Sally Lester Allison Janney Karin Buchholz
Julia Vaughan Claire Danes Nana Spier
Mrs. Latch Margo Martindale Regine Albrecht
Louis Waters Jeff Daniels Peter Reinhardt
Hotel employee Colin Stinton Roland Hemmo

Publications

The film came on 27 December 2002 in the American cinema and played there until May 2003 with attendance of over 6.7 million about 41.5 million US dollars one. Cinema releases followed in numerous other countries. Especially in Spain, where the film opened on February 21, 2003, The Hours was a commercial success with grossing over $ 6.3 million and viewing figures of around 1.4 million.

In German cinemas, where it was released on March 27, 2003, the film was seen around 810,000 times.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews , the film wise "grandiose representations" and a "complex narrative structure". It shows three women whose fates the novel connects Mrs. Dalloway , so it speaks most strongly to those viewers who would know the novel. Berardinelli particularly praised the portrayal of Nicole Kidman, which one could not see under the mask; she seems "sick", "cozy" and "somehow insane" ("somewhat demented"). Her strong portrayal, however, would not overshadow the portrayals of Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep, who would play “tight” and “controlled”.

Blickpunkt: Film wrote: "The result was a melancholy drama which, thanks to its great class and extraordinary care in its realization, is a designated Oscar candidate and is one of the highlights of the Berlinale competition."

The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “An extremely artfully designed film, carried by convincing actresses, which addresses female fulfillment and refusal of duty as well as the balance of power between the sexes. No episode is treated like a template, rather the basic problem is spelled out down to the secondary characters. "

Awards

The Hours received nine Oscar nominations, but only Nicole Kidman won the Oscar in the category " Best Actress " for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf.

The film received seven Golden Globe nominations. He received the award in the “Best Film (Drama)” category and Nicole Kidman for “Best Female Leading Role”. The soundtrack to the film was nominated for a Grammy Award and two World Soundtrack Awards .

At the Berlinale 2003 Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep received the Silver Bear for the best acting performance in the competition.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 000 K).
  2. German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  3. a b c The Hours at Lumiere
  4. Review by James Berardinelli, accessed June 20, 2007
  5. The Hours - From Eternity to Eternity. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 7, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used