The Virgin Suicides
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Virgin Suicides |
| Original title | The Virgin Suicides |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sofia Coppola |
| script | Sofia Coppola |
| production |
Dan Halsted , Chris Hanley , Francis Ford Coppola , Julie Costanzo |
| music | Air |
| camera | Edward Lachman |
| cut |
Melissa Kent , James Lyons |
| occupation | |
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The Virgin Suicides (partly used Subtitles: Lost Youth , TV Title: The secret of her death ) is a film by Sofia Coppola from the year 1999 . The fictional story is based on the novel of the same name by Jeffrey Eugenides , whose German title is "The Suicide Sisters".
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The Lisbon family lived in a small suburban house in the 1970s with their five closely guarded daughters Cecilia (13), daredevil Lux (14), Bonnie (15), Mary (16) and Therese (17).
The film begins with Cecilia attempting to commit suicide , who cuts her wrists in the bathtub. However, she is found by a boy from the neighborhood and can be rescued. A psychologist, who then treats Cecilia, recommends that parents allow them to "interact normally with male peers". As a measure, Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon decide to give a party for Cecilia, which will also be attended by their sisters and boys from the neighborhood. Cecilia says goodbye early. A little later, her father finds her dead - impaled on the cast-iron garden fence of the property, onto which she jumped out of a window in the house.
When Cecilia succeeds in putting an end to her life with this second suicide attempt, the “year of suicides” begins, which will forever change all those involved and observers. After Cecilia's loss, the parents tighten the rules in the house drastically.
However, the crush of girls Trip Fontaine falls in love with Lux Lisbon and wants to take her to the school ball. Her parents even allow it, on the condition that Mr. Lisbon will supervise the ball and that Trip will organize male company for Lisbon's other daughters so that everyone can drive to the ball. Apart from Lux, the Lisbon daughters are not too enthusiastic about their companions at the beginning of the evening, but in the end they all have a lot of fun that evening. Trip and Lux are elected homecoming queen and king and run away towards the end of the ball. The sisters go home that evening without Lux.
Lux and Trip take a walk on the school football field, which ends with Lux losing her virginity . They fall asleep together, but Trip leaves the place early in the morning, leaving Lux alone. When she wakes up and comes home in a taxi, the parents' rules for their daughters are tightened again. Lux is dragged into the house, announcing that the Lisbon sisters will not be going to school for the next few weeks either. From this point on, the girls can no longer lead a normal life like other teenagers, instead they are isolated in their rooms.
The mother forces Lux to destroy her Kiss and Aerosmith rock records . After that, Lux begins to have sex with different men on the roof of the house at night, which the neighboring boys are watching with binoculars. The girls contact the boys using Morse code, and later they communicate with records that they play to each other on the phone.
One evening the situation escalates. Without the audience knowing, the sisters decide to follow their sister's example and commit suicide as well. In advance they agree with the neighboring boys that they should come over to them at midnight, when the parents are already asleep. The boys excitedly accept the invitation and find Lux in the living room of the house, smoking a cigarette. She invites the boys in and tells them that she and her sisters want to flee their parents' house. Lux instructs the boys to wait for their sisters while she herself goes to the car that will be used to escape. After a short wait, the boys look around the house and find Bonnie's body, who has hanged herself, in the basement. When they want to leave the house head over heels, they come across Therese, who has taken her own life with sleeping pills, and Mary, who suffocated herself in the gas stove. The police officers who arrive later also find Lux sitting in the alleged getaway car in the garage of the house, in which she suffocated herself with exhaust fumes.
Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon are desperate after the suicides. You commission the sale of the house and the entire facility and you leave town. The neighbors collect everything from the garbage that reminds them of the Lisbon daughters.
The end of the film shows the behavior of small-town society after the suicide of their daughters: After initial uncertainties about how to behave appropriately, people soon return to their everyday lives.
Only the neighbors, all of whom are in love with one of the Lisbon daughters, cannot get this out of their thoughts even years later and wonder how the suicides could have happened. The film contains an off- comment from the first person perspective of a now grown-up boy from the neighborhood. He describes how the sisters remained an eternal mystery to him and his friends: even though they lived next door, they always seemed so far away.
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| actor | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| ( Giovanni Ribisi ) | (Teller) | Philipp Moog |
| Kirsten Dunst | Lux Lisbon | Stephanie waiter |
| AJ Cook | Mary Lisbon | Stefanie von Lerchenfeld |
| Kathleen Turner | Mrs. Lisbon | Traudel Haas |
| James Woods | Mr. Lisbon | Gerd Böckmann |
| Scott Glenn | Father Moody | Joachim Höppner |
| Josh Hartnett | Trip Fontaine | Matthias von Stegmann |
| Michael Paré | Trip Fontaine (old) | Gudo Hoegel |
| Danny DeVito | Dr. EM Horniker | Michael Habeck |
criticism
"A study that is as impressive as it is irritating, which bathes the basically gloomy story in cheerful colors and does not celebrate the 1970s as an era of liberalism, but rather presents it as a refuge for petty-bourgeois thinking."
"According to her own script, Sofia Coppola succeeded in creating a subtly suggestive work with The Virgin Suicides, which for the first time demonstrates her stylish sense for composition and music and creates a gently humorous yet melancholy atmosphere."
Soundtrack
In addition to the film's official soundtrack, the French band Air released the album The Virgin Suicides especially for the film, which includes those instrumental pieces that are not on the official soundtrack. In addition, parts of the film's dialogues have been incorporated into the album. The musical genre is called "Teenage tragedy song". The source of inspiration for the album by "Air" was the song " DOA " by the band " Bloodrock " from 1970.
Trivia
Sofia Coppola got the reference to the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides from her friend, Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore .
Web links
- The Virgin Suicides in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Virgin Suicides atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Current literature from Radio Bremen
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- ^ German dubbing index: The Virgin Suicides - Verlorene Jugend . Retrieved December 28, 2008.
- ^ The Virgin Suicides. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 14, 2017 .
- ^ Katharina Stumm: The Virgin Suicides. critic.de - the film page, April 30, 2008, accessed on February 2, 2013 .
- ↑ David Browne: Goodbye 20th Century - The Story of Sonic Youth . From the American English by Ralf Niemczyk with Imke Trainer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, KiWi Paperback 1132, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04162-0 , chapter 14.