Winter's valley
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Winter's valley |
| Original title | Winter's valley |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Akiva Goldsman |
| script | Akiva Goldsman |
| production | Akiva Goldsman Marc Platt Michael Tadross |
| music |
Hans Zimmer Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Caleb Deschanel |
| cut |
Wayne Wahrman Tim Squyres |
| occupation | |
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Winter's Tale is an American iconic fantasy film in the style of magic realism from the year 2014 . The film adaptation of the fantasy bestseller of the same name by Mark Helprin is the directorial debut of screenwriter Akiva Goldsman . The German theatrical release was on February 13, 2014.
action
In 1895, a young immigrant couple on Ellis Island was refused entry into the United States because they both had tuberculosis. When their young son is refused entry even without her, they decide to put him in a model sailboat called the City of Justice in the hope that the child will be found.
In 1916 the child grew into a man. He calls himself Peter Lake. Peter was raised by the gang boss Pearly Soames and now earns his living as a burglar and thief. When Peter decides to leave Pearly's gang and his old life, he turns his foster father into an angry opponent and is hunted by his gang. At the last moment, Peter meets his Guardian Angel - a mysterious white horse that saves him by flying away with him.
Although Peter is hoping to move to Florida and not return until the summer, the horse encourages him to make one final break-in into a posh townhouse. The house is home to Beverly Penn, a young woman with advanced tuberculosis disease . While her father, Isaak Penn, a wealthy newspaper publisher, and her little sister Willa are away, fevered Beverly takes a cold bath to cool off. Then she sits down at the piano while Peter tries to open the safe in the house at the same time. In doing so, he discovers her. The two are instantly sympathetic and fall in love with each other. Peter says goodbye to Beverly to escape from Pearly.
Pearly discovers Peter's escape from his sphere of influence and orders his men to Beverly's house. They, the representatives of evil, believe that Beverly is Peter's miracle which, for Peter, will tip the balance between good and bad for good, so that he will be forever beyond Pearly's control. Peter prepares to leave town on his mysterious white horse. Before that, he goes back to Beverly one more time to see her one last time. When Pearly tries to kill Beverly, Peter rescues her. They escape on the white horse by flying to Lake Coheerie, where Pearly, who is bound to the five boroughs of New York under the contract with the devil, cannot follow them.
While walking, Beverly explains to Peter that every person is born with an "inherent miracle". When he dies, he becomes a star. You, Beverly, will become a star in death, but Peter's intrinsic wonder will still be with him while he is alive.
Pearly goes to a dark sewer. There he meets his boss Lucifer, the judge. Pearly seeks permission from Lucifer to exceptionally access an out-of-town address: Beverly's lakeside house; the high judge Lucifer rejects Pearly's motion. So he hires a fallen angel who has become human to poison Beverly. The angel carries out the assignment at a ball attended by Peter and Beverly.
Late in the evening after the ball, Peter sneaks into the open-air tent Beverly sleeps in to keep it cool, and the two make love. But then, just as Beverly is about to say something, the poison does its job and she dies. Peter carries her to the greenhouse where Beverly's little red-haired sister Willa had prepared an enchanted bed in her childlike hope of saving her terminally ill sister . Willa believes that it can save you from death if you put a sick person on it before her last breath. Peter tries to revive Beverly with a kiss, but it's already too late.
Pearly and his men pose for Peter and the White Horse on the Brooklyn Bridge. Peter orders the horse to get to safety, he cannot escape himself. Pearly grabs Peter, hits him in the head and throws him off the Brooklyn Bridge to his death. Peter miraculously survived, wandering through the city of New York for a century without memory or memory. He earns his living as a plaster painter. Without knowing who the person he is painting is, he makes a large chalk drawing of a red-haired girl on the sidewalk. In 2014, while painting, Peter accidentally meets a little red-haired girl named Abby and soon joins her and her mother, journalist Virginia Gamely. He discovers the City of Justice plaque from the model sailing ship his parents put him in as a baby to force his immigration.
Pearly learns that Peter is still alive after falling off the Brooklyn Bridge. Peter searches for connections and finds the Coheeries Theater, founded and dedicated to Beverly's father. He goes to a library, Virginia helps him research facts that might help his memory back. There he now also meets Willa, now an old lady, she had inherited from her father and is still the head of the local newspaper and thus Virginia's boss.
When Peter is over for dinner with Virginia, he learns that Abby has cancer. He realizes: The child Abby is his very personal miracle. Peter convinces Virginia that he knows a way to save Abby. When Pearly and his men arrive, Peter and Virginia flee with Abby to the roof of the house where the white horse is waiting for them to save them. The horse flies them to Lake Coheerie.
Pearly has negotiated a deal with Lucifer: if he is ready to make himself mortal, he can pursue Peter outside of town. Just as Peter, Virginia and Abby are in sight of the country house, Pearly and his men pull up in black limousines on the frozen ice of the lake.
The white horse flies and lands hard on the ice, which breaks - Pearly's men and their pitch-black limousines sink to the bottom of the lake. Peter and Pearly fight each other, Pearly dies and becomes an ice column.
Peter and Virginia take Abby and gently lay the terminally ill child on the wonder bed in the manor's greenhouse. Abby is indeed returning to life, and Peter brings both Virginia and Abby home - a brighter future awaits the three of them.
The final shot shows Peter and the horse galloping through the streets of Manhattan, suddenly it jumps into the sky and the two fly into the night sky to become stars and reunite with Beverly - Virginia, Abby and Willa stare after them.
background
Since the 1983 fantasy novel Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin appeared, a large fan base has gathered around him. This includes Akiva Goldsman, who was also responsible for directing this film for the first time in his career as a screenwriter and producer.
criticism
The reviews of the film were mostly negative. Thus, Metacritic a Metascore of 31% based on 34 reviews out. At Rotten Tomatoes , the average rating is only 13%, based on 124 reviews.
Filmstarts awarded 2.5 out of 5 stars and called Winter's Tale a “film for uninhibited romantics”, which, however, “lives more from the viewing values than from the emotions”. The performances of the actors are only partially convincing.
Birgit Roschy from epd Film only awarded 1 out of 5 stars and criticized the fact that the film hardly succeeded in creating its “atmospheric pull without which the supernatural matrix would act like smear theater”. The "ice and snow landscapes and glittering big city backdrops have the appeal of photo wallpapers," and "the tracking shots (...) are as uninspired and choppy as the linking of episodes and characters."
The FAZ reviewer wrote u. a .: "Mature art is" Winter's Tale "of course in no way [...] But anything serious is not at stake here anyway -" Winter's Tale "is literally pure kitsch, and this purity [...] at least deserves it a rain of confetti. Adorno [...] would have had a nice name for all of that: sweet nonsense. "
Web links
- Official page for the film
- Winter's Tale at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Winter's Tale . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 199 K).
- ↑ Winter's Tale at Metacritic (English)
- ↑ Winter's Tale at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ a b The Filmstarts review of Winter's Tale at filmstarts.de, accessed on February 23, 2014
- ↑ Birgit Roschy's review of Winter's Tale at epd-film.de, accessed on April 8, 2015
- ↑ FAZ February 11, 2014, p. 33