The Theory of Flight
- Helena Bonham Carter: Jane Hatchard
- Kenneth Branagh: Richard
- Gemma Jones: Anne Hatchard
- Holly Aird: Julie
- Ray Stevenson: gigolo
From the Theory of Flight is a British drama film directed by Paul Greengrass in 1998, with Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in the lead roles. The film was released on 22 January 1999 in the U.S. cinemas and on 22 April 1998 in the German cinemas.
Action
Richard is a frustrated artist, in the midst of his midlife crisis. Because ultimately public indecency he goes to court and must as hours of community punishment. His first assignment leads him to Jane Hatchard, a young woman who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease ( ALS). Your disease is already in the last stage, but Jane takes it with serenity and whistle. The two do not have a particularly good start, but ultimately betrays Jane Richard a secret. You want to lose her innocence and wants him helping her. Meanwhile, Richard builds an airplane from old paintings and garden tools. Soon he knows how Jane is here to help: A Gigolo must be committed, and to pay for this, he is determined to rob a bank. Jane does not know this, where you are the head.
Criticism
The mirror criticized in a 1999 short review: "The film by Paul Greengrass is significantly trimmed to pity mesh and taboo, that [sic ] not even the great Bonham Carter can prevent a crash landing. "
In Culture News says about the film: "This could have been a tragicomic romance, were it not for the attempted metaphor of flying and the arg sweet intumescent film music that is not accompanied but overbearing the viewer instructs what emotion he had to experience as the next. "
The Wiener Zeitung judges, however, in their 2005 movie review: " Sensitively directed and played great the film is, despite illness, pain and death, a hymn to life, an " Ode to Joy ", full of strength and ingenuity and poetry. "