Angela's Ashes (film)
- Emily Watson: Angela McCourt
- Robert Carlyle: Malachy McCourt
- Joe Breen: Frank as an infant
- Ciaran Owens: Frank as a child
- Michael Legge: Frank as a teenager
- Ronnie Masterson: grandmother Sheehan
- Pauline McLynn: Aunt Aggie
- Liam Carney: Uncle Pa Keating
- Eanna MacLiam: Uncle Pat
- Andrew Bennett: narrator
Angela's Ashes (English Original title: Angela 's Ashes ) is the adaptation of the novel by Frank McCourt, who is about the childhood and adolescence of the American writer.
Action
Frank's family emigrated in 1934 from the U.S. back to Ireland. Here the father has to look for work, which he does not find or will soon lose again. Often the extended family gets to eat little or nothing that is mostly due to the drunkenness of the father who - if he even has a job - the money earned often versäuft in the pub.
" Frankie's " childhood was marked by hard everyday in coal transport in Limerick and the constant rejections of the Catholic Church and is brightened only by cinema afternoons and the later romance with Theresa, a wealthy, but terminally ill girl. But Frankie's goal is clear: he wants to return to America.
Criticism
- Epd Film 3/2000: " [ ... ] the distant view of the past gives the story a poetry and a joke that mitigate the harsh reality of the images as well as the optimistic turn of fate at the end. "
- Filmdienst 5/2000: " A held in gloomy color film before the rain-soaked backdrop of the city of Limerick, who struggles visibly to authenticity, however, issuing the subject of poverty, at best, as a still - life and thereby brings about a large part of its effect. "
- Karl- Heinz Schäfer wrote in the Cinema: " [ ... ] However, McCourt's chronicle lives of their unique narrative voice. The bears the tragic events before so vivid, poetic and humorous that the reader never knows whether to laugh or cry - and then usually equal to doing both. But the incomparable sound of the book meets Parker only in the last third. Conclusion: gray and sad as ashes. "
Awards
The film music of John Williams was nominated for an Oscar.