Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Ellen Burstyn: Alice Hyatt
- Alfred Lutter: Tommy
- Kris Kristofferson: David
- Billy Green Bush, Donald Hyatt
- Diane Ladd: Flo
- Harvey Keitel: Ben Eberhart
- Jodie Foster: Audrey
- Vic Tayback: Mel, snack Owner
Alice Does not Live Here Anymore ( Original title: Alice Does not Live Here Anymore ) is an American film drama directed by Martin Scorsese from the year 1974 with Ellen Burstyn in the title role. This earned her an Oscar.
Action
The happy married housewife Alice Hyatt is forced by the surprising accidental death of her husband, Donald, to ensure in the suburbs alone for herself and her teenage son Tommy. On the journey to her Californian home she ends up with "partner" Tommy in a small town, where Alice works as a singer in a bar and lives in a motel. After a brief affair with the violent Ben flees and ends up in Tucson, Arizona. While Tommy makes friends with the cheeky Audrey, Alice works as a waitress in a busy fast food outlet. The Schandmaul her colleague Flo drives them crazy at first, but the incipient romance with the friendly farmer David holds Alice, who is just passing through, longer than planned.
Comments
- Originally designed for Diana Ross, later also rejected Barbra Streisand from the main role offered because they felt too young age of 32.
- The opening scene is an homage to The Wizard of Oz.
- The film was the first international success of Martin Scorsese and allowed him the artistic independent work on Taxi Driver.
- Based on the hit film, was 1976-1985, the series Alice (English title: lunch with a bite) with Linda Lavin in the title role, which for 1978 and 1979, won the Golden Globe for "Best Actress in a Comedy Series ". 1979 was awarded the prize for the series " Best Comedy Show".
Release from 12 years
The Working Committee of the FSK was after a long discussion, according to the minutes of 17 September 1975 that sequences of the film, the age group of 12 -year-olds, although " sometimes overwhelmed by understanding her, partly entails a risk of brutalization with it. " However, it should benefit noted that " this film reality of life - albeit in parts hard reality of life - genuine taught. " This film is expected of 12 year olds and therefore to see quite of them at a profit. In the Federal Republic of Alice had not Live Here Anymore on September 26, 1975 premiere.
Reviews
" [E ], the fascination remains unbroken to this day in gorgeous road movie. Grandiose drama improvisation, the young Harvey Keitel, who is a choleric Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde Cowboy, on the prepubertal Jodie Foster to the magnificent Ellen Burstyn. "
" Sensual, undogmatic women's film. "
" A play hard: [ ... ] During Burstyns own adopted son appears in a supporting role, she provides to delicious screwball banter with her precocious child movie, Alfred Lutter. Director Martin Scorsese was delighted with their tragicomic maneuverability: Ellen returns to the slapstick in the midst of the most terrible situation. '"
" What happened to her on this journey, culminating in one of the shrewdest, funniest and sometimes most painful portraits of an American woman I have ever seen. [ ... ] The film was attacked by feminists as well as defending, but I think he is beyond the ideologies, perhaps in the field of contemporary myths and love stories. "
Awards
The film won " Best Actress " (Ellen Burstyn ) and " Best Supporting Actress " ( Diane Ladd ) at the award ceremony of the British Film Awards in the categories "Best Film", " Best Screenplay ".
For three Oscars nominations ( Best Supporting Actress Diane Ladd and Robert Getchell for best original screenplay), finally won Ellen Burstyn for Best Actress. She protested against the withdrawal of the nomination of Liv Ullmann for Scenes from a Marriage, by far remained the ceremony, which is why director Martin Scorsese accepted the award for her.
The film also took part in the competition for the Golden Palm at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1975.