Tideland

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Movie
German title Tideland
Original title Tideland
Country of production Canada , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Terry Gilliam
script Terry Gilliam,
Tony Grisoni
production Gabriella Martinelli ,
Jeremy Thomas
music Jeff Danna ,
Mychael Danna
camera Nicola Pecorini
cut Lesley Walker
occupation

Tideland is a Canadian-British film drama by Terry Gilliam from the year 2005 . It is the film adaptation of a novel by Mitch Cullin .

action

The parents of little Jeliza-Rose are vegetating in a drug swamp, father Noah has the very vague hope of reaching the Jutland of the Vikings . Jeliza-Rose is used to preparing the injection for him with drugs. After her mother's sudden drug death, Jeliza-Rose fled with her father to the remote farm where he grew up. This is now deserted, Noah was probably still waiting for his mother there. When Noah dies shortly afterwards after being shot by heroin, Jeliza-Rose is alone in the dilapidated house with her father's slowly decaying corpse in a rocking chair - whom she treats as if he were still alive - and her only friends , a couple of severed doll heads. Squirrels and rabbits also become characters in their fantasy world. In the opening credits, Terry Gilliam, who is prepared for the most varied of audience reactions, explains his intention for such a grotesque scenario. He postulates : The strong will to survive and the imagination that children bring up enable them to survive even the most difficult traumatic experiences.

On her forays into the area she meets Dell and her mentally retarded brother Dickens, who also live in a remote house nearby. Dell was very much in love with Noah in her youth but was abandoned by him. Dickens, who had a traumatic relationship with Jeliza-Rose's grandmother as a child, lives, like the little girl, in a dream world - a world in which he is the captain of a self-made submarine, with the vast cornfields as the sea and the trains rushing by as a monstrous killer shark, which must be fought with all means. A childlike love develops between Jeliza-Rose and Dickens, while Dell, who knows - not only - how to stuff animals, sees herself reunited with her childhood sweetheart Noah. Together they tidy up the property and clumsily paint all the walls and furniture uniformly white. In Dell and Dickens' house, old feelings break out when Jeliza-Rose enters their mother's room and learns of the love between Dell and her father through mementos. For Dickens, who has a seizure, the emotional chaos is apparently the trigger to blow up a train with dynamite. From his point of view, he triumphs over the killer shark. Before that, he spoke to Jeliza-Rose several times about the end of the world. After the demolition he disappeared. The further fate of Jeliza-Rose remains open when she mingles with the crashed passengers and a woman takes care of her.

Reviews

Ruthe Stein described the film in the San Francisco Chronicle of October 27, 2006 as "pointless" and "excruciatingly boring". The action is "incomprehensible".

Film-dienst wrote that the film was "consistently told from the perspective of its little heroine"; he denied the viewer "at the same time the visual participation in their dream worlds". It is a worth seeing, but “disturbing film about the horrors of the world” and at the same time “a hymn to a child's will to live”.

Harald Mühlbeyer called Tideland in his review for epd Film 12/2007 "unusual", "strange", "sad" and "beautiful". The fact that the film did not find a theatrical distributor in Germany and that Concorde had to appear directly on DVD in 2007 (“appropriate DVD edition”) is a “poor testimony” for the industry.

Awards

Terry Gilliam won an award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2005 and was nominated for another award at the same festival. At the 2007 Genie Awards , the film received six nominations, including for Jodelle Ferland in the Best Actress category , for production design, for cinematography, costumes and editing.

backgrounds

Production costs were estimated at 12 million US dollars . The film was in Saskatchewan ( Canada turned). Its world premiere took place on September 9, 2005 at the Toronto Film Festival . The first screening in Germany took place on July 18, 2006 at a festival in Munich , but it did not reach the cinemas here. The German-language DVD publication was released on October 8, 2007. The film grossed around 66,000 US dollars in selected cinemas in the United States.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Tideland . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 274 DVD).
  2. ^ Critique by Ruthe Stein
  3. ↑ epd Film 12/2007, p. 59.
  4. ↑ a b Box office / business for Tideland , accessed November 3, 2008
  5. ↑ Filming locations for Tideland
  6. ↑ Start dates for Tideland
  7. ↑ www.videoworld.de