Twixt - Virginia's secret

Movie
German title	Twixt - Virginia's secret
Original title	Twixt
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2011
length	89 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Francis Ford Coppola
script	Francis Ford Coppola
production	Francis Ford Coppola
music	Dan Deacon ; Osvaldo Golijov
camera	Mihai Mălaimare Junior
cut	Kevin Bailey ; Glen Scantlebury ; Robert Schafer
occupation
	Val Kilmer : Hall Baltimore; Bruce Dern : Sheriff Bobby LaGrange; Elle Fanning : Virginia; Joanne Whalley : Denise; Ben Chaplin : Edgar Allan Poe ; Don Novello : Melvin; David Paymer : Sam Malkin; Alden Ehrenreich : Flamingo; Anthony Fusco : Pastor Allan Floyd; Ryan Simpkins : Carolyne; Lucas Rice : PJ; Bruce A. Miroglio : Policeman Arbus; Tom Waits : Narrator;
synchronization

Twixt - Virginia's Secret (Original Title: Twixt ) is an American thriller / horror film from 2011 by director Francis Ford Coppola with Val Kilmer , Bruce Dern and Elle Fanning in the lead roles. The film is based on the short story Twixt, which was written by Francis Ford Coppola himself.

action

Hall Baltimore, a third-rate witch novelist, hits the small town of Swann Valley on his promotional tour for his latest work, which has a 7-face clock tower as its only special feature. The local sheriff, Bobby LaGrange, suggests that they write a book together about a recent murder of a young girl who was rammed with a wooden stake in the chest. The book should be called "The Vampire Execution", the hero of the book should be the sheriff himself.

In several dreams, Baltimore meets Edgar Allan Poe and a 12 year old girl who introduces herself to him as Virginia - nicknamed “V” or because of her allegedly crooked teeth “Vampira” - and who later asks him for help. In his dreams he also visits the Chickering Hotel, in which Edgar Allan Poe resided decades ago and which has now fallen into disrepair, and learns there from the tower guard and a waitress that 12 children were murdered here, but that a thirteenth was able to escape and cursed it has been. Edgar Allan Poe accompanies Baltimore in his dreams and also tells him the story of Virginia. Baltimore learns that Pastor Allan Floyd, who took in the children who were later murdered and provided them with everything they needed, was not as good a person as was initially thought. Among other things, Baltimore sees the pastor attack Virginia while the children are anointed. Later it turns out that the pastor poisoned the children and then cut their throats. Only Virginia survived, rescued by Flamingo, a man portrayed by Bobby LaGrange as evil for seducing young girls. This bites Virginia in the neck during the rescue. However, the following evening she was found again by the pastor, kidnapped and walled up alive in a crypt.

Shortly before Allan Floyd hangs himself in the crypt, he apologizes to God for his sinful behavior. The children are to blame because they had the "white flesh of the devil" in them and he could only think of that certain something in them. He also apologizes for looking for joy elsewhere and not in God.

In his dreams, Baltimore also has to deal with the death of his daughter. She was traveling with her friend on a speedboat and was killed when they tried to pass between two boats with a rope between them. Baltimore blames himself for this accident because he didn't know they were speedboats and he was too drunk to ride.

In the end, Baltimore finds the sheriff hanged with a guilty sign and his assistants murdered in his office. Baltimore itself is bitten by Virginia, who is the murder victim mentioned at the beginning. When he pulls the stake out of the girl's dead body, the girl wakes up and stands up. As she walks toward Baltimore, her vampire teeth grow; after these are fully grown, she falls upon him.

However, Baltimore is not killed, but in the final scene sits in the office of his publisher Sam and talks to him about the new work, which is sure to be a hit.

synchronization

The German language dubbing was done by Lavendelfilm Potsdam under the dialogue direction of Sebastian Schulz .

role	actor	German dubbing voice
Hall Baltimore	Val Kilmer	Torsten Sense
Sheriff Bobby LaGrange	Bruce Dern	Otto Mellies
Denise	Joanne Whalley	Christin Marquitan
Edgar Allan Poe	Ben chaplin	Tobias Kluckert
Melvin	Don Novello	Jörg Hengstler
Sam Malkin	David Paymer	Bodo Wolf
flamingo	Alden Ehrenreich	Nicolás Artajo
Pastor Allan Floyd	Anthony Fusco	Stefan Staudinger
Policeman Arbus	Bruce A. Miroglio	Olaf Reichmann
teller	Tom Waits	Jan Spitzer

background

The film was shot in various locations in California from November to December 2010 .
The budget was about 7 million dollars (around 5.3 million euros)
The film was first released at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011, in Germany it was shown for the first time on July 2, 2012 during the Munich Film Festival and was only shown in German cinemas in November 2012 at the Braunschweig International Film Festival see. The film was released in Germany on December 6, 2012 directly on DVD and Blu-ray.
In France, the number of viewers in cinemas was just over 50,000.

Reviews

"The most beautiful, eccentric dream sequences that couldn't be seen in the cinema in 2012: a wonderfully strange late work by Francis Ford Coppola."

- Jochen Werner, "critic.de"

“Francis Ford Coppola made a radical film that takes place in an intermediate realm between life and death. Coppola also confronts his son's accidental death. […] The tendency to the otherworldly, which in the first older work 'Youth Without Youth' was still annoying with twisted seriousness, appears in 'Twixt' broken in many ways. With Skype calls and split screens, with bizarre characters and silent film-like, larger-than-life effects, the film turns out to be the patchwork that it is. And yet the most diverse elements go together less confused than peculiarly, something that sometimes reminds of Lynch and then again of Murnau, but which also switches between foolishness and silliness in a matter of seconds, becomes a whole of its own. With its Hollywood afterlife Coppola himself is no longer entirely of this world, but he is also a master in the realm of the undead directors. "

- Ekkehard Knörer, TAZ