Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film)

• Tom Hanks Thomas Schell
• Thomas Horn: Oskar Schell
• Sandra Bullock: Linda Schell
• Zoe Caldwell: Oskar's grandmother
• Dennis Hearn: Minister
• Paul Klementowicz: Homeless
• Julian Tepper: waitress
• Caleb Reynolds: schoolboy
• John Goodman: doorman Stan
• Max von Sydow: lodger
• Viola Davis: Abby Black
• Jeffrey Wright: William Black

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is an American film drama from 2011 directed by Stephen Daldry. The film is an adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer and 2012 was nominated for an Oscar. The film opened on February 16, 2012 in the German cinemas.

• 3.1 criticism
• 3.2 Box office and business
• 3.3 Nominations and awards

Action

The nine-year behavioral problems Oskar loses his father Thomas in the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York. Oskar watched the events in the media, while his father is in one of the skyscrapers and desperately trying to reach his family by phone.

Together, father and son had often played a kind of scavenger hunt, whose aim was to bring Oskar into contact with as many people to overcome his shyness. After the death of his father, Oskar begins to follow a clue he finds in a vase in his father's closet. This is a key whose case is labeled with the word "Black".

Because Oskar believes the key was intended for him, he decides to every person named Black, who is listed in the telephone directory of New York, to seek, to find out what the key lock opens. He met a number of people who usually tell a story about him, but can not help him with the key. During the search Oskar befriends with the dumb lodger at his grandmother, who supports him in his quest and tried to take some fears of the boy. Oskar plays the man in front of some messages left by his father on the answering machine shortly before his death and the existence of which not even Oskar's mother knows something. Oskar concludes that the lodger was his grandfather.

A further indication of his father nachgehend lands Oscar William, the divorced husband of Abby Black, which he had already visited. It turns out that William has long been looking for the key. He belongs to a bank locker and was accidentally given away along with the vase at Oscars father. Oskar is disappointed that the key is not for him. He destroyed in mourning first everything that has to do with his search. But then he learns of his mother Linda, of which he had been estranged since the death of his father, that she knew of his quest and the people he met, had previously informed so that they would be kind to him.

When Oskar is back at the swings in Central Park at the end of the film, he finds a hint of his father, which states that the scavenger hunt was long gone, as Oskar had overcome his fear. In a cut scene, we learn that Oskar's grandfather returns to his grandmother and this picks it up again. Oskar sits on one of the swings and takes momentum, so that the film finally ends when Oskar enjoys full swings on the swing.

Production

Publication

Director Stephen Daldry had hoped to finish the film in the fall of 2011 for the public to make a reference to the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 can. In the theatrical release, however, only in January (United States) and February ( Germany ) was shown. In Germany, a DVD and Blu -Ray version was published on 22 June 2012.

Reception

Criticism

Critics took the film to grow through. Criticism was often the reference to the World Trade Center bombing of September 11. On the meta-critique service Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a critics rating of 47 percent, the audience awarded an average rating of 62 percent (as of 19 March 2012).

Skillfully " law of the film combines the grief of the boy at the loss of his father and his guilt with the mourning mood in the United States after the attacks (though without mentioning even a single time on the terrible consequences of 9/ 11) with the story of a family that must find each other again until after a blow. The tragedy of the substance Daldry also repeatedly transferred towards sweet is, after all, a little softened by almost casually strewn fairytale-like motifs and of the boy who is probably the most unusual nine- year-old history of cinema probably the charming weirdness. "

" Rather, it is up to the banality of the reaction, which is looking for a realistic framework for Foer's fairy-tale stylization and then it is only sentimental manipulation formulas. Tom Hanks plays in flashbacks as (too) perfect Papa on: Even the sadness attached to a fantasy figure, while as a counterpoint the traumatized mom (Sandra Bullock ) amazing acting irresponsibly - which, however, only one of the screenplay tricks by Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth proves, with those at the end of a series of " uplifting " Emotion excesses is orchestrated. "

" The film adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer [ ... ] is the remarkable experimental workup and overcoming that trauma that moves the American nation to this day. Sensitively directed and acted superbly, the film goes sometimes close to the edge of sentimentality, but always convinced by the sincerity of his concern. "

Box office and business

The film played a around 48 million U.S. dollars.

Nominations and awards

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was nominated for Best Picture in 2012 for an Oscar in the category. The Swedish performer of the sublessee, Max von Sydow, was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor. The film also received the 2012 Hessian Film Award for "Best international literary adaptation " ( Prize of the Frankfurt Book Fair ).