Tom & Viv

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Movie
German title Tom & Viv
Original title Tom & Viv
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Brian Gilbert
script Michael Hastings
Adrian Hodges
production Harvey Kass
music Debbie Wiseman
camera Martin Fuhrer
cut Tony Lawson
occupation

Tom & Viv (alternate title: Tom and Viv ) is an American - British biography from 1994 . Directed by Brian Gilbert , the screenplay was written by Michael Hastings and Adrian Hodges based on the play of the same name by Michael Hastings from 1984.

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England, in 1914: the young and attractive Vivienne Haigh-Wood returns to her former place of study in Oxford , accompanied by her older brother Maurice . The daughter of a long-established London banking family lives in an unconventional and unconventional way and is looking forward to seeing the American Thomas "Tom" Stearns Eliot, who is studying literature in England under Bertrand Russell . Vivienne and Tom fall in love. The couple runs away and marries. But already on her honeymoon in Eastbourne , Vivienne begins to suffer from physical ailments, which she tries to cure through constant use of medication.

Returning from their honeymoon, the couple have no material security or career prospects as Tom plans to become a poet. Vivienne supports him as a secretary and muse. However, your health is deteriorating. Due to incorrectly dosed medication, she begins to suffer from uncontrollable outbursts of anger. At the same time, Vivienne becomes more and more discouraged and apathetic, as she suffers from irregular and heavy menstrual periods due to a disturbed hormone balance . She is also fond of alcohol.

Tom, who has meanwhile accepted a job with Vivienne's father, is becoming more and more estranged from his wife and takes refuge in work as a poet. Vivienne is becoming more and more vulgar. She provokes and shocks the public by supporting the pacifist Bertrand Russell, among others. When Vivienne's father dies, Tom and Maurice manage their inheritance in a foundation due to their behavior. As a result, she begins to attack supporters and friends of her husband as well as other members of society and the church. With the consent of her relatives, Vivienne, who is “dangerous to the public”, is admitted to a mental hospital and never sees Tom again. She dies in 1947. A year later, her husband receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was not intended for a large audience. The representations are - with the exception of those by Willem Dafoe - "wonderful", the pictures are "nice". The main actors had difficulties with credibility at the beginning of the period shown - Richardson, who played a mature woman, did a lot better, Dafoe did not. The film focuses more on intellect than on emotions. The biggest flaw of the film is its speed, especially in the last half hour.

Edward Guthmann wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of February 17, 1995 that the role of Miranda Richardson was "perfectly" tailored to her "sharp, flamboyant talent." The film shows how the depicted illness in women is not only defined by time, but also by the person of the husband. The poet embodied by Dafoe seems like a "malicious, self-controlled pig" that is hungry for social position and career.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the title roles of the "dignified film adaptation of the play of the same name" were "excellently played". "The staged solid relationship tragedy" can be "understood as a medical history, emancipation drama and poet biography alike". The film conjures "with the spirit of the British Empire between the wars" "credibly a time in which a frozen society inevitably had to isolate an unadjusted young woman".

Awards

Miranda Richardson for Best Actress and Rosemary Harris for Best Supporting Actress were nominated for an Oscar in 1995 . Miranda Richardson was nominated for the 1995 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Drama .

Miranda Richardson was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 1994; the film also received a nomination for the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film . Miranda Richardson and Rosemary Harris received the National Board of Review Award in 1994 .

backgrounds

The film was shot in Oxford. It grossed around 539 thousand US dollars in cinemas in the United States .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed February 25, 2008
  2. ^ A film review by Edward Guthmann, accessed February 25, 2008
  3. ^ Tom & Viv in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on February 25, 2008
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Tom & Viv, accessed February 25, 2008
  5. ^ Box office results for Tom & Viv, accessed February 25, 2008