Bluntly - nothing is private
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bluntly - nothing is private |
| Original title | Towelhead |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Ball |
| script | Alan Ball |
| production | Alan Ball, Ted Hope |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Newton Thomas Sigel |
| cut | Andy Keir |
| occupation | |
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Bluntly - Nothing is Private (Original title: Towelhead , also known as Nothing Is Private ) is a 2007 American drama film directed by Alan Ball . The leading roles were played by Aaron Eckhart , Peter Macdissi and Summer Bishil . The film is an adaptation of the novel Blunt (Original Title: Towelhead ) by the American writer Alicia Erian .
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007. In Germany, Bluntly - Nothing is Private was released on May 12, 2011 as a direct-to-DVD film.
action
The Lebanese-American teenager Jasira Maroun lives with her mother in Syracuse , New York during the First Gulf War in 1990 . After the friend has approached the mother Jasira and helps her to shave her pubic hair, the mother sends Jasira to her father Rifat. He is an engineer and lives in a suburb of Houston . As an Arab, he is repeatedly exposed to racist hostility from his neighbors there , even though he is an avowed Christian. While Jasira becomes more and more estranged from her father, she begins to discover her sexuality. At the same time she meets Travis Vuoso, the father of her neighbor Zack. She has conflicting feelings for Mr. Vuoso. Although her classmate Thomas Bradley takes an interest in her, a relationship never emerges. Instead, Jasira has sex with the much older Travis Vuoso, who is due to be relocated to Iraq the next day.
Her father beats Jasira after he found a porn magazine on her that she received from Vuoso. The neighbor Melina Hines offers Jasira to live with her. Jasira then tells her father and the neighbors that she has had sex with Mr. Vuoso, whereupon he is arrested for raping a minor.
criticism
Not least because of controversial topics such as child sexuality , racism and the Gulf War, the film was critically discussed, especially by the American public. The ratings of most of the film critics were only average to negative. Conservative media such as FOXNews even saw child pornography in the film ("Kiddie Porn Movie Rocks Toronto as 'Feel-Awful' Film of the Year").
The film critic Roger Ebert also rated the film as "strange":
"The tone is all wrong for a story of child sexuality and had me cringing in my seat. It either has to be a tragedy or some kind of dark comedy like Kubrick's brilliant ' Lolita ', but here it is simply awkward, embarrassing and painful. ( The tone is completely wrong for a story about child sexuality and it made me cramp up in my seat. It must be either tragedy or some kind of black comedy like Kubrick's brilliant "Lolita," but that's just strange, embarrassing and painful. ) "
In Germany, the reviews were much more positive. This is how the lexicon of international films judged :
"A film adaptation of a controversially recorded novel in the USA, which throws a critical-satirical look into the depths of the American suburbs."
Other critics also pointed out bluntly - Nothing is private as an "intense film experience":
“This terrifying weightlessness comes from the fact that Alan Ball tells his story from the perspective of 13-year-old Jasira. From her childish and naive point of view, the viewer witnesses gruesome scenes, which are never shown in the same way, since Jasira, who is still far too young, cannot understand what is happening to her at all. This turns 'bluntly - nothing is private' into a very intense film experience that is terrifyingly close and painful. "
additional
The original title of the film is Towelhead . Towelhead is used in English as a discriminatory term for Arabs or Muslims
Web links
- Bluntly - Nothing is private in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bluntly - Nothing is private on Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Bluntly - Nothing is private on Metacritic (English)
- Bluntly - nothing is private in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Bluntly - Nothing is private . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 994 V).
- ↑ Roger Friedman: Kiddie Porn Movie Rocks Toronto as 'Feel-Awful' Film of the Year. In: FoxNews . September 11, 2007, archived from the original on September 13, 2008 ; accessed on July 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Towelhead in Filmlexikon at rogerebert.suntimes.com retrieved October 31, 2011
- ↑ Bluntly - Nothing is private. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed October 31, 2011 .
- ↑ Kathrin Lang: Bluntly - Nothing is private. In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on July 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Definition of Towelhead