Lost labor of love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lost labor of love |
| Original title | Love's Labor's Lost |
| Country of production | UK , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kenneth Branagh |
| script | Kenneth Branagh |
| production | Kenneth Branagh David Barron |
| music | Patrick Doyle |
| camera | Alex Thomson |
| cut | Neil Farrell |
| occupation | |
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Verlorene Liebesmüh ' (Original title: Love's Labor's Lost ) is a British - American comedy film from 2000 . Directed by Kenneth Branagh , who also wrote the screenplay based on the play Lost Love Labor by William Shakespeare and took on one of the larger roles.
action
The action takes place in a fictional parallel world in 1939. King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three friends Berowne, Longaville and Dumaine return home. They swear to forego romantic relationships for a while and to devote themselves to the arts instead. The king is visited by a French princess, who is accompanied by the three ladies-in-waiting Rosaline, Maria and Katherine. Ferdinand falls in love with the princess, his friends each fall in love with one of the ladies-in-waiting. The men reveal their feelings at a ball; the women, however, ask for proofs of love in that the men wait for them for a year.
Reviews
Derek Elley wrote in Variety magazine on February 16, 2000 that the film was a "delightful" treatise on "old Hollywood-style" love . The film was without precedent - the 1990s had brought some modernized adaptations of Shakespeare, but none was stylized like a traditional musical. Branagh tried to appeal to modern audiences by cutting down the dialogue and simplifying the plot.
Film-Dienst wrote that the film renounced “the contemporary allusions” and raised “the piece to the rank of an elegant musical through the use of many song and dance numbers” , which underlined “the timelessness of the love story” .
Cinema magazine compared the “wonderful film” to an “explosive Broadway musical” . He interweaves “songs by Porter , Gershwin and Berlin with the original text” .
In the review of the Berliner Zeitung on May 25th, 2000, however, it was said: "" Lost love effort "is completely devoid of meaning, which is why the film cannot achieve anything more than successful situation comedy in its best moments."
Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy was also criticized in the film review of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten : "'Lost love effort' is nothing more than a helpless attempt to revive the music film genre."
Awards
Adrian Lester was nominated for the British Independent Film Award in 2000. The film was nominated for a Golden Reel Award in 2001 for sound editing .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Shepperton Studios , England . Its production amounted to an estimated 13 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on February 14, 2000 at the Berlin International Film Festival , and several other film festivals followed. The film grossed around 144,000 pounds sterling in British cinemas and around 169,000 US dollars in the US.
Web links
- Wasted effort in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wasted effort in rotten tomatoes (English)
- Lost Love Labor at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review by Derek Elley ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 10, 2008
- ↑ Lost love effort in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on September 10, 2008
- ↑ Cinema , accessed September 10, 2008
- ↑ Singing petits fours . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 25, 2000, accessed on October 14, 2013
- ↑ Lost love effort ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , October 10, 2001, accessed on October 14, 2013
- ^ Filming locations for Love's Labor's Lost , accessed September 10, 2008
- ^ Box office / business for Love's Labor's Lost , accessed September 10, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Love's Labor's Lost , accessed September 10, 2008
