Junebug (film)

Junebug is the feature film debut of the American director Phil Morrison from the year 2005. Tragicomedy based on an original screenplay by Angus MacLachlan and was produced by the specialized actually on advertising films production company Epoch Films.

Action

The British art dealer Madeleine learns at a fancy charity event in Chicago the younger businessman George know. Both fall in love and get married a week later. As Madeleine, who has specialized in so-called "outsider " art, six months after traveling to rural North Carolina to win the eccentric artist David Wark as customers, they will be accompanied by husband George. With the business Madeleine also pursues the purpose to meet the family of her husband, who hails from the small town of Pfafftown, which he last visited three years ago.

The coincidence between the cosmopolitan couple Georges and conservative family that lives not far from David Wark, is a farce. Georges hard-hearted mother Peg rejects the new sophisticated member of the family with the distinct British accent as well as from the dour and taciturn father Eugene and George's younger brother Johnny. Madeleine's brother, who still lives at home with his parents and tried with more than twenty years to make up for his high school graduation, was always in the shadow of his older brother and is jealous of George's career success. Unexpected support gets Madeleine contrast of Johnny's young and simple-minded wife Ashley, who expected just a kid. The two women who could not be more different, become friends, and the talkative Ashley feels Madeleine soon as a sort of sister, she reports on the plan, the child " Junebug " (Eng.: Junebug ) to name, there should be a girls. While George withdraws more and more, Madeleine Ashley helps in planning of family dinners and church meetings and desperately trying to come up with the neighboring artists into the business, who is about to sign a contract with a New York art gallery.

When used with Ashley contractions, Madeleine is first not taken to the hospital by the family and then David Wark preference, rather than together with her husband to visit her sister in the hospital. You visited the painter, and she succeeds after a brief hesitation, and whose anti-Semitic resentments exploiting to take him under contract. Ashley loses during which her ​​child at birth, and only George, it is possible to donate to the young woman consolation. Johnny, in turn, promises Ashley to get her a new baby. Although it is possible Madeleine to approach her ​​father Eugene by again finds his lost screwdriver, but the relationship with her ​​mother Peg not improved. Likewise, the problems between George and Johnny find a solution. Madeleine and George then travel back to Chicago, glad to leave North Carolina and the peculiar relatives far behind.

Genesis

The film is based on a film script of screenwriter Angus MacLachlan, who grew up with director Phil Morrison in the small town of Winston- Salem, North Carolina. The film was shot from 14 June to 11 July 2004, within twenty days of shooting in Winston -Salem, the herhielt as fictional small town " Pfafftown ". During this time, Morrison worked, due to the low budget, individually with each actor together, especially with Amy Adams, the clothed one of the main roles. Adams was also supported by the U.S. actress Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Celia Weston and the U.S. series Starring Benjamin McKenzie ( The OC ). For the original soundtrack the American band Yo La Tengo has been committed, had directed several music videos for director Phil Morrison among others.

Reception

The tragi-comedy premiered in January 2005 on the U.S. Sundance Film Festival. After Junebug had been shown, among others, to the film festival in Cannes (May 19 ) and the International Seattle Film Festival (June 10 ), the film was officially launched on 5 August 2005 initially in only seven U.S. theaters. The film played at the opening weekend of a 74 739 U.S. dollars and was until December 4, 2005 achieve a box office earnings of about 2.7 million U.S. dollars to a maximum of 143 cinemas. The feature film debut of director Phil Morrison was praised by critics and compared with works of Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, and Gus Van Sant. Even greater resonance than the production by director received Supporting Actress Amy Adams. Her portrayal of the pregnant Ashley, who tries to compensate with talkativeness the void in her life, was hailed as a "revelation" and compared with the role of Brenda, who Adams had played three years earlier in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can ( 2002). Furthermore, Adams was as new "Queen of Independent Films " ( " Indie Queen" ) and are compared sporadically with the renowned character actress Julianne Moore not only due to the identical hair color. The few negative voices noted weaknesses in Angus Maclachlans film script, in particular in the development of the individual movie characters.

Reviews

  • " ' Junebug ' is a great film because it is a true film. He humiliates other films that claim themselves of family secrets and eccentricities to act. " ( Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun- Times)
  • "Surprisingly you can find gorgeous caught in the controversial undertones of love, distrust, tradition and mystery that is steeped in this tale of lost innocence, deep roots, and what it means to come from the world of the southern states. " ( Entertainment Weekly )
  • " A deceptively simple, deeply resonant story about the innate tendency towards solitude of the family, the advantage of adaptation and the enormous distance that two people can separate them. " (Los Angeles Times)
  • " Phil Morrison's wise, bittersweet, wonderfully played comedy about a homecoming Southerners envelops us in the structure of the world, visit the movies rare. " (New York Times)
  • "It's a quiet, witty, moving triumph, the kind of movie that ' interesting ' gives the word a good sound. " (Washington Post )

Comments

  • The role of the eccentric artist David Wark is loosely modeled on James Harold Jennings (1931-1999), who lived in Winston -Salem and made ​​a name as a self-taught artist.
  • People in the opening sequence of Junebug are shown roaring. This was a very practical form of communication in the hilly North Carolina. Even today the roar in North Carolina is practiced, it was charged, inter alia, to an art form and went to the so-called "folk tradition" one.
  • The paintings David Warks come from the professional painter Ann Wood of Brooklyn, New York. The style of the images is modeled after those of known self-taught painters such as Henry Darger and Howard Finster.
  • The song, which is heard in the opening sequence of Junebug, ie Harmour Love and was designed by artist Syreeta. The classical music pieces which are found in the film use Beautiful Ida and Alsergrundler Waltz of Alois Strohmayer (1822-1890), the Piano Quintet Op. 57 by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich ( 1906-1975 ), the String Quartets Op.54 / 1 and No. 66 Op.77 / 1 by Joseph Haydn ( 1732-1809 ), the Gratzer Galop by Franz Schubert and the Concerto for Mandolin and Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi ( 1678-1741 ).

Awards

Actress Amy Adams was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2006 as Best Supporting Actress, but the Briton Rachel Weisz was beaten ( The Constant Gardener ). Furthermore, Adams won for her portrayal of Ashley including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005, and the awards of the Film Critics Association of San Francisco, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the National Society of Film Critics and the Independent Spirit Awards, in each case as Best Supporting Actress.

Oscar Ceremony 2006

  • Nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)

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Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2006

  • Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)

Central Ohio Film Critics 2006

  • Breakthrough Artist movie (Amy Adams)

Gotham Awards 2005

  • Breakthrough Award (Amy Adams)
  • Nominated in the category Breakthrough Director Award ( Phil Morrison )

Independent Spirit Awards 2006

  • Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams) nominated in the categories Best First Screenplay
  • Producer Price

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006

  • Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2006

  • Nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)

San Francisco Film Critics Circle 2005

  • Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)

Satellite Awards 2005

  • Nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress - Drama (Amy Adams)

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2006

  • Nominated in the category Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)

Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards 2005

  • Best Supporting Actress ( Amy Adams)
  • Wyatt Award

Sundance Film Festival 2005

  • Special Jury Prize (Amy Adams)
  • Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Film
Film score Joe Klotz Scott Wilson (actor) Fictional film Winston-Salem, North Carolina June 14 July 11 Syreeta Wright 78th Academy Awards Critics' Choice Movie Award 22nd Independent Spirit Awards 10th Satellite Awards 12th Screen Actors Guild Awards
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