Tears of memory (2000)
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| German title | Tears of memory |
| Original title | Yesterday's Children |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 90 minutes |
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| Director | Marcus Cole |
| script | Sarah Bird , Richard Leder |
| production | Jay Benson |
| music | Patrick Williams |
| camera | James Bartle |
| cut | Mark Rosenbaum |
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Tears of Memory is a 2000 American drama film produced for television that deals with the topic of reincarnation. Sarah Bird and Richard Leder adapted the autobiographical novel Yesterday's Children by Jenny Cockell into a script. Jane Seymour plays the lead role of Jenny Cole.
action
Jenny Cole leads a full life. She and her husband recently started their own business. Your son will be going to college soon. But Jenny is not feeling well. Daydreams torment them. Here she regularly sees a lower class Irish family from the first half of the 20th century. The violent family man John Sutton makes life difficult for his wife and four children. He ruthlessly impregnates her again against her will, although the village doctor warned that Mary would not survive this. The eldest son Sonny is very attached to his mother, as they both share many secrets from their father. Since Mary foresees her own end, she asks Sonny as a precaution to look after the younger siblings or to keep the siblings together after their death.
Jenny feels Mary's emotions exactly as if they were in Mary's body. An inner compulsion draws her to Malahide, a small Irish coastal town, the real scene of her visions. Jenny is certain that the people and events of her dreams also existed. Since she can place the events from her visions in the 1930s, Mary's children could even still be alive. Together with her son Kevin, she travels to Ireland and tracks down Sonny Sutton, who is now very old. Contrary to his promise, he broke off contact with his siblings. Jenny can move him to rebuild a family bond with Bessy, Frank and Phyllis - Goeffrey had already passed away.
Jenny believes that Mary's unsteady soul lives on in her and that she would have brought her to Ireland for the purpose of family reunification.
Background information
The film was shot in Ireland and the USA. In Ireland, the two coastal towns of Enniskerry and Greystones , south of Dublin, were used. For the scenes in America, the filmmakers chose Allentown, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles .
- Scenes of the action
Greystone harbor basin
Enniskerry town center
Church in Newcastle
Castle ruins in Newcastle
However, the true story location where Mary's family lived is Malahide .
criticism
TV feature film describes the film as an illogical “esoteric melodrama” and “outrageous reincarnation quark”.
Awards
The film won the 2001 Primetime Emmy Award for the song A Dream That Only I Can Know , which was used as a film score. In the same year he was also nominated for the Young Artist Award.
literature
Jenny Cockell: Immortal Memory. Bastei Lübbe, 1994.
Web links
- Tears of remembrance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tears of memory in the online film database
- Tears of memory in the German dubbing file
- The Jenny Cockell case