X + Y

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Movie
German title X + Y
Original title X + Y
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English language
Publishing year 2014
length 111 minutes
Rod
Director Morgan Matthews
script James Graham
production David M. Thompson ,
Laura Hastings-Smith
music Martin Phipps
camera Danny Cohen
cut Peter Lambert
occupation

X + Y is a British drama directed by Morgan Matthews , which premiered on September 5, 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was shown for the first time in Germany on June 30, 2015 at the Munich Film Festival . The film was released on September 11, 2015 under the title A Brilliant Young Mind .

action

Nathan Ellis (Edward Baker-Close) was a nine-year-old witness of a car accident in which his father was killed. This was the only one able to get through to the autistic boy. After the loss, Nathan's illness becomes more apparent and he no longer allows any physical closeness from his mother either. His special need for structure and regularity and his difficulties in expressing and interpreting emotions are increasingly overwhelming.

As a teenager, Nathan (now played by Asa Butterfield ) receives a new math teacher - Martin Humphreys ( Rafe Spall ). Humphreys suffers from multiple sclerosis and is lonely. He takes care of the boy and helps him to find his way around the world with his illness. At the same time, he was the first to recognize and promote Nathan's island talent in the field of mathematics , bring him to the English team for highly talented young mathematicians led by Richard ( Eddie Marsan ) and prepare him for the International Mathematical Olympiad . Arriving at the venue in Taipei ( Taiwan ), Nathan falls in love with his Chinese competitor Zhang Mei against all odds, which presents both of them with a completely new challenge: Until now, everything interpersonal had seemed irrational to Nathan's. Now he makes the experience that the irrationality of love cannot be expressed in formulas, while Zhang Mei learns to deal with Nathan's worldview and way of thinking.

background

Asa Butterfield (2011) plays Nathan Ellis

X + Y is the feature film debut of the British documentary filmmaker Morgan Matthews. The idea for the production of the film came to the two-time BAFTA winner when he was shooting the documentary Beautiful Young Minds for the BBC , which accompanied a group of highly gifted British students during their stay in various training camps and the participation in a mathematics Olympiad. This documentation was nominated for the BAFTA 2007. Matthews was so impressed by his experience with mathematically gifted students that he used this material to shoot X + Y and use many lines of dialogue from the documentation.

reception

Leslie Felperin from The Hollywood Reporter says of the film: "The sensitive drama is deeply shocking and gives an insight into autism and the enchanting world of mathematics." The critics at Rotten Tomatoes rated the film 86 percent positive (70 reviews, as of December 26, 2015).

Awards

At the British Independent Film Awards 2014 , Asa Butterfield was nominated for Best Actor , and Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall received nominations for their supporting roles. Laura Hastings-Smith was named Best Female Producer at the 2014 Rome Film Fest . At Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival was Morgan Matthews 2015 X + Y with the Just Film Award honored and at the Palm Beach International Film Festival , the film was in 2015 as Best Feature Film Award. In the 2016 London Critics' Circle Film Awards , Butterfield was nominated for Best British Young Actor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ X + Y In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  2. ^ Rochus Wolff: 'X + Y' by Morgan Matthews In: kino-zeit.de, July 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ Leslie Felperin: 'X + Y': Toronto Review In: The Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2014.
  4. ↑ X + Y In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 26, 2015.