The Little Hours
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| Original title | The Little Hours |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Jeff Baena |
| script | Jeff Baena |
| production | Aubrey Plaza |
| music | Dan Romer |
| camera | Quyen Tran |
| cut | Ryan Brown |
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The Little Hours (tagline in German rental prayers and other deadly sins ) is a nunsploitation - comedy of Jeff Baena , in the context of the January 19th, 2017 Film Festival Sundance premiered. It is a loose adaptation of one of the one hundred stories from the collection of novellas The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio .
action
In Italy in the 14th century . The young Massetto, who pretends to be deaf and dumb, is admitted to a nunnery in Tuscany. There he soon messes up the peaceful life, because the nuns Alessandra, Fernanda and Genevra are downright impressed by his attractiveness. One after the other, Massetto sleeps with the actually godly young women.
production
Staff and literary original
The film was produced by Aubrey Plaza , who also starred in the film. Directed by Jeff Baena , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. This is a loose adaptation of one of the one hundred stories from the collection of novellas The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio . Based on the first story of the third day of the novella collection, Baena tells in the comedy film about Tuscany in the 14th century, where life in a monastery gets completely off track when an attractive young man awakens the desires of the pious nuns.
Before the premiere of the film, Baena said that anyone who had read the Decameron , which was as thick as War and Peace or Gravity's Rainbow , would find that this is funny, has remained modern to this day, is extremely human and somehow understandable. Baena did not want to portray something abstract in his film, of people who blindly followed the will of the church, but rather to show that they were often very complex and often lived in wealth. According to Baena, the people in the Decamerone came from another time, just like us.
The Decamerone is always about nuns. In the adapted story, the clever Massetto pretends to be deaf and dumb and is therefore accepted as a gardener in the nunnery. Here, however, he gradually begins to unite with each of the nuns in a hidden place. A first version was therefore banned by the Council of Trent and landed on the index of forbidden books .
Cast and filming
Dave Franco took on the role of Massetto, who pretends to be deaf and dumb and is therefore accepted into the nunnery. Alison Brie , Aubrey Plaza and Kate Micucci play the young, not entirely god-fearing and also a little crazy nuns Alessandra, Fernanda and Genevra, who seduce Massetto. John C. Reilly will play Father Tommasso and Molly Shannon will play Mother Superior. Nick Offerman can be seen in the role of Lord Bruno. Nick Offerman, Adam Pally , Fred Armisen , Paul Reiser and the film director and producer Paul Weitz took on other minor roles .
Baena shot the film with his cameraman Quyen Tran in the spring of 2016 in Tuscany on the slopes and in villages in the Garfagnana mountain range , including on the Ponte Medievale . Baena said of the filming in Italy that when you shoot in this part of the world for the first time, everything you get in front of your lens in Tuscany is just beautiful.
publication
The film premiered on January 19, 2017 as part of the Sundance Film Festival . In June 2017 the film was shown at the Sydney Film Festival . From June 29th 2017 the film was presented at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . The film was released in selected US cinemas on June 30, 2017. In Germany the film in January 2018 for the first time as part of the Film Festival White Nights Fantasy of Fantasy Film Festival shown.
reception
Reviews
So far, the film has won over 79 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .
The Hollywood Reporter's John DeFore says the engaging cast makes Boccaccio's work a disrespectful sex comedy. DeFore says that the film, freed from the burden of having to depict a convincing Middle Ages, can concentrate on laughing, and Dave Franco plays a sympathetically cranky sex object .
Peter Debruge of Variety describes the film as a medieval monastery comedy with nuns who cleaned up with the prejudice of brittle, oppressed maiden who spend all day praying, and instead real women with hormone flashes show that have a particular curiosity for all that is forbidden .
Awards
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017
- Nomination for the Audience Award ( Jeff Baena )
Web links
- The Little Hours in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Little Hours . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 185851 / V).
- ↑ a b c d Jeff Baena in conversation with Mark Olsen: History and comedy collide with Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Dave Franco in 'The Little Hours' In: Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2017.
- ^ Decameron. Chapter 5 In: projekt-gutenberg.org. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
- ↑ Karl Julius Weber: Monkery or historical representation of the monastery world and its spirit . Hallberger, Stuttgart, 1836.
- ↑ The Little Hours: world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival In: toscanafilmcommission.it. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- ↑ The little hours, all'Astra la prima del film girato a Lucca0 In: luccaindiretta.it, April 5, 2017.
- ^ The Little Hours diretto da Jeff Bana: anteprima italiana al Lucca Film Festival In: toscanafilmcommission.it. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- ↑ The Little Hours In: edfilmfest.org.uk. Retrieved June 4, 2017.
- ↑ The Little Hours In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 25, 2018.
- ^ John DeFore: 'Little Hours': Film Review. Sundance 2017 In: The Hollywood Reporter, January 20, 2017.
- ↑ Peter Debruge: Sundance Film Review: 'The Little Hours' In: Variety, January 20, 2017.
- ↑ Orlando Parfitt: Edinburgh International Film Festival unveils 2017 line-up In: screendaily.com, May 31, 2017.