The night is tender (film)
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| German title | The night is tender |
| Original title | Tender is the night |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 145 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Henry King |
| script | Ivan Moffat |
| production | Henry T. Weinstein |
| music | Bernard Herrmann |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | William H. Reynolds |
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Tender is the night is a 1961 Hollywood film by the then 75-year-old veteran director Henry King , who hereby delivered his last production. Jennifer Jones , Jason Robards and Joan Fontaine can be seen in the leading roles . The story is based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald .
action
In the 1920s, somewhere in a noble sun spot in the south of France, on the Côte d'Azur : The world of the beautiful and the rich, the bored and social snobs have come here to bully each other at a particularly high level of money. Among them is the American psychiatrist Dr. Richard “Dick” Diver and his unstable wife Nicole, a compatriot. She was once his million dollar patient in a hospital in Switzerland, now she is his million dollar wife. Through this marriage, Dick succeeded in advancing into the social upper class of America, a strange world that initially fascinated the intelligent man.
You live by yourself, spend the summer by the sea, on excursions and at parties with the same jet-set guests and always the same topics of conversation. At best, a new "member" in the isolated club of the wealthy brings variety, this time in the form of the pretty, very young Rosemary Hoyt. During one of these parties, Nicole has to watch her husband show more interest in the young woman with film ambitions than a married man should. Nicole, who is already emotionally unstable by nature, reacts to this with considerable jealousy, which leads to a relapse into the old psychosis .
Flashbacks then tell how Dick and Nicole, then with the last name Warren, once met. Dick's old friend and professional mentor Dr. Dohmler soon realized how problematic Nicole's nature is and warned his protégé Diver urgently against wanting to marry this woman, as she could quickly ruin his career. In fact, after exchanging the rings, Nicole required all of his attention from then on, and sometimes it was Dick who had to bear the burden of stoically enduring all the crazy things that make Nicole. His work suffered as a result.
Soon Dick had to realize that he did not want to and cannot continue this kind of life. The focus on the crickets of the exhausting wife and the superficiality of this life in luxury finally made him weary and made Dick reach for the bottle more and more often. His re-encounter with Rosemary, which he once ignored for the sake of his wife, is very sobering for Diver. His business partner Dr. Gregorovious advises him to withdraw from both clinic operations. With Dick's demise comes Nicole's gradual recovery. While the psychiatrist loses touch with his real life, his job, Nicole soon seems completely healed. She begins a love affair with the mercenary Tommy Barban, turns him into her toy boy and demands a divorce from Dick. Deeply disaffected and devastated, Dick Diver returns to the United States.
Production notes
Tender is the night was created in France, Italy and Switzerland. The world premiere took place on January 19, 1962, the German premiere on February 23 of the same year. In Austria, the complex strip started on April 21, 1962.
The film structures were designed by Jack Martin Smith and Malcolm Brown , while Walter M. Scott was responsible for the equipment . The theme song, music by Sammy Fain , text by Paul Francis Webster , was nominated for an Oscar .
criticism
“Scott Fitzgerald, literarily highly talented playboy in America of the 'roaring twenties' and the 'lost generation', the most elegant and at the same time deeply sad writer of those years, names his work on which this film is based and whose subtly ironic title he is a poem by Keats borrowed a 'novel of impoverishment'. It tells the story of the young psychiatrist Dick Diver, who marries a patient worth millions, so enters the world of the Upper Ten, at first fascinated by her, but then worn down and spat out again. If Scott Fitzgerald's story, despite the not entirely clichéd story, reads like a prose film about the phenomenon of stagnation that is now the domain of an Antonioni, director Henry King has lovers of expensive subjects and sumptuous productions ... Scott Fitzgerald's intentions turned into the opposite. He keeps it tangible with the story, which can be challenged in detail, and plays it melodramatically [...] Beauty and decay, what the novel is about, is dismissed by King with copious consumption of whiskey and the model clothes of the Parisian couturier Balmain. "
“America's singer of the misery of well-being, Scott Fitzgerald, recorded the plot for this film in his novel of the same name, published in 1934: A Drinking Psychiatrist (Jason Robards Jr.) enters the world of Upper through marriage to a millionaire heiress (Jennifer Jones) Ten, which at first fascinates him, then wears him down and finally pushes him out again. Director Henry King, lover of expensive themes and sumptuous decorations (' All glory on earth '), took on this American tragedy far too lavishly. Fitzgerald's subtle love-hate song for society in the twenties looks like the wailing of people who were ordered to restrict whiskey by the doctor. "
“Between contemplative views of the Riviera and the Swiss mountains, the bittersweet love and marriage story of a psychiatrist who hopefully marries a wealthy patient only to lose her after a hopeless crisis (he sinks into a drunkard playboy) runs. The photogenically staged pseudo-tragic fateful novel refers to the American writer Fitzgerald (1896-1940). "
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A fable which [is] too stretched due to its richness of detail and unclear due to the insufficiently marked ending. The game is played vividly ... the environmental label (1920s) is characteristic. "
"Cumbersome, unpalatable version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel with Jones as the mentally unstable wife of psychiatrist Robards."
“Inconsistent, tolerably literary implementation of an apparently non-filmable novel about almost challenging unreal people who would be assigned to the jet set today. About half of the result is entertaining in the superficial sense. "
Web links
- Tender is the Night is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Extensive film review in the New York Times
Individual evidence
- ↑ The night is tender (USA) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1962 ( online ).
- ↑ The night in the lexicon of international film is tender
- ↑ The night is tender in Paimann's film lists
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide , 1996 edition, p. 1303
