Bye Bye Blackbird (Film)

• James Thiérrée: Josef
• Derek Jacobi: Lord Dempsey
• Izabella Miko: Alice Dempsey
• Jodhi May: Nina
• Michael Lonsdale: Robert
• Niklas Ek: Djamako
• Carlos Pavlidis: Jenkins
• Claudine Peters: Miss Julia
• Peter Stone: Count Manicoldi

Bye Bye Blackbird ( German Title: Farewell, beautiful, black bird ) is a Luxembourgian film of 2005 After three short films, this is the first feature film by the French portrait photographer, Robinson Savary, son of Jérôme Savary. .

Action

The young Josef, played by the trapeze artist and actor James Thiérrée, a grandson of Charlie Chaplin, working as a steel skeleton builder in the construction of the Eiffel Tower. He enjoys working in the air. As a work colleague and he crashes a poster of the trapeze artist Alice (played by former ballet dancer Izabella Miko, who has been practicing for several months for the film trapeze artistry ) provides shortly thereafter, he decides to join the circus. There, with Dempsey's circus, he performs various service duties, but secretly practicing on the trapeze to get close to Alice and to have his dream come true to be able to work as a trapeze artist under the big top.

Josef is the circus owner Lord Dempsey, played by Derek Jacobi convince, to perform with his daughter Alice as a trapeze artist together. A dream come true for him. In a sensational common perception in Paris Alice crashes. Josef imagines to be responsible and withdraws into himself. The adopted sister Alice, Nina, played by Jodhi May, Josef released from his torment by shoots him after the circus has degenerated into a cabinet of curiosities.

Others

Already turned in 2003, the film had shown his first performance at the International Film Festival in Cannes on 15 May 2005. For the first time in Germany was Bye Bye Blackbird on 17 November 2005 at the International Filmvestival Mannheim -Heidelberg, cinema premiere in Germany was 30. November 2006.

Filmed among others in Dudelange, Luxembourg and the Mirker station in Wuppertal.

Reviews

Leni Höllerer criticized in the Berliner Zeitung neglecting the emotional portrayal of the characters, Felicitas Little criticized in issue 24/2006 of the film magazine filmdienst the lack of vitality of the circus world Robinson Savary. In addition to some negative reviews but also will find words of praise for artistic expression and realization of the film:

" Although with weaknesses there are at least a good reason to Bye Bye Blackbird to see and that is his main actor James Thiérrée ( Vatel ) - grandson of Charlie Chaplin - which occurred four years old in the traveling circus of his parents and the vibrant dynamism of a dancer possesses. Connected with a radiance that is both closed and melancholy, vulnerable and always a little tense, to take it a Joseph emotional tightrope that tilts increasingly into the delusion that every second from "

" The artistic demands of the work is particularly evident in the breathtakingly staged Trapezchoreografien, was responsible for their design James Thiérrée itself. In these sequences - the most impressive by far is located almost exactly in the middle of the movie - succeeds Bye Bye Blackbird playful, to transcend his own subject. "

Awards

• 2005 - FIPRESCI Prize for Robinson Savary at the Film Festival in Taormina
• 2005 - Nomination for Robinson Savary for the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival