Desire & Reality
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Desire & Reality |
| Original title | The Proposition |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lesli Linka Glatter |
| script | Rick ramage |
| production |
Ted Field , Scott Kroopf , Diane Nabatoff |
| music | Stephen Endelman |
| camera | Peter Sova |
| cut | Jacqueline Cambas |
| occupation | |
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Desire & Reality (Alternative title: Desire and Reality , A Murderous Offer ; Original Title: The Proposition ) is an American drama from 1998 . Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter , the script was written by Rick Ramage .
action
The action takes place in Boston in 1935 and is told in a flashback . The lawyer Arthur Barret is married to Eleanor, who wants children. Arthur, however, is impotent. He suggests that law student Roger Martin impregnate Eleanor. Martin agrees; he later falls in love with the woman and, as agreed, does not leave her alone. Some time later he is murdered.
Eleanor meets the clergyman Father Michael McKinnon, who has immigrated from Great Britain and is related to Arthur Barret; She later tells him about the deal with Roger. As a result, Father McKinnon suspects Eleanor's husband Arthur of killing Martin. The friendship between Eleanor and McKinnon intensifies little by little and finally, supported by the housekeeper Syril, it comes to a momentous night that the father and Eleanor spend together.
A short time later the priest learns of his planned transfer to Rome; Eleanor had confessed of her sin to his superior. When McKinnon asks her about it, she confesses to him that he is pregnant and wants to protect her husband from always having to see the children with their biological father - the father. McKinnon is able to convince her to avert the transfer with a donation to the community. As a result, the Barret couple found each other again through pregnancy. The narrator from the off, the Father, calls this "healing".
In the eighth month of Eleanor's pregnancy, McKinnon receives a call from a doctor who tells him that Eleanor is in labor and that she urgently needs her father. Since he is away, Father McKinnon rushes to the bed of the dying woman, who asks him shortly before she dies what he will do with the children when she is dead. After helping the doctor give birth to his two sons, McKinnon tells Arthur Barret, in the presence of Syril, as a witness that he is the father of the twins and that he intends to take them with him to England. If Barret refused to do so, he would expose what happened.
However, after overhearing a conversation between Syril and Arthur in the church with Eleanor lying in state, from which he learns that in reality Syril had murdered the young Martin in order to save Arthur, whom she loved like a son, from public disgrace, he decides himself to leave his sons with the widower. In return, he only asks for the right to bury the dead woman under a tree on a piece of land next to the church.
Reviews
Derek Adams wrote in Time Out London that the director left out cinematic research on topics such as sexual representation or materialism on the US East Coast in the interwar period. Almost every scene is provided with “kitschy glamor” .
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a melodrama told as a long flashback with great stylistic unity, the themes of which - emancipation, sterility, celibacy and fate - do not find a convincing connection" . The "anchoring in the 30s" failed "because the film lacks any sense of time" .
backgrounds
The film was in Boston , in Ipswich ( Massachusetts ) and Paxton turned (Massachusetts). It grossed around 122,000 US dollars in selected US cinemas .
Web links
- Desire and reality in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Desire and reality at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review by Derek Adams, accessed on January 13, 2008 ( 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.
- ↑ Desire & Reality in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on January 13, 2008
- ↑ Filming locations for The Proposition, accessed January 13, 2008
- ↑ Box office / business for The Proposition, accessed January 13, 2008
