Coraline (Film)

Coraline is an animated film of the American director Henry Selick from the year 2009. 3D production produced in stop-motion method is based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, which was adapted by Selick himself for the big screen, the action clearly has been extended and modified.

Action

Eleven year old Coraline Jones relates an apartment with her parents in a remote, run-down villa in the countryside, which has now been converted into an apartment building. Coraline's busy parents give the imaginative daughter little attention and are feverishly working on the forthcoming publication of a common garden catalog. Coraline sets out with a divining rod to search for an old well. She meets Wyborne Lovat, called " Wybie ". The impertinent and talkative neighbor boy whose grandmother heard the villa, has a penchant for dark clothing and quirky performances, which are always accompanied by a black cat. Also are eccentric Coraline's neighbors. The Russian emigrant and huge acrobat Mr. Bobinsky lives on the top floor and pretends to secretly train a jumping mouse circus. The basement inhabit the two former British vaudeville artists Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, who hold three Scottish Terriers, which are like their stuffed ancestors worshiped by them.

When Coraline is bored, she pushes in the living room on a locked small door, which is located behind the wallpaper. When her mother opens the door with a key, behind all this is only a brick wall. A short time later Wybie Coraline pays a visit and gives her a doll that looks remarkably like her. He has found this with his grandmother. Wybies grandmother has her grandson strictly forbidden to enter the apartment building, as their sister disappeared without a trace in childhood long ago in the house. That same night, Coraline is awakened by a small knopfäugigen jerboa. She follows this through the door in the wall, behind which is now a tunnel is in a different world where Coraline the necessary care and attention gets that eluded her so far.

In this world, Coraline's parents are always cheerful. Her other mother takes care regularly to a delicious dinner, the father carries on a mechanical piano and designed the garden for the face of his daughter. The aggressive and hyperactive Wybie has lost the language and can no longer interrupt the girl. Mr. Bobinsky invites you to a presentation of the Spring mouse circus, while the two aging Revue Stars perform some vocal numbers for Coraline and regain youth. Multiple visits the girl's parallel world whose people and animals seem to differ only by buttons instead of eyes of their likenesses in the real world. There she meets on Wybies cat who has as it passes through the tunnel and now dominates the human language. He and Coraline are the only ones in the parallel world that have normal eyes. He begins Coraline before her other mother to warn.

This paradise starts to turn into a nightmare when the offer Coraline Other Mother deflects also exchange their eyes against two buttons to obtain in this way forever asylum in the beautiful parallel world. Behind the other mother hides in reality an old spider-like woman who captures children's souls to enslave them as a remedy for loneliness. As a spy in the dreary reality made ​​use of the witch of the identical -looking doll, which once gave Wybie Coraline without evil intentions. Coraline realizes that the promised land of plenty stops behind the edge of the forest a few meters away and that it is only simple cloth dolls in most people and animals in reality.

In a game with the Vettel Coraline freed with the help of the other Wybie, the cat and a magic stone of Miss Spink and Miss Forcible the three previously captured souls of children, including the missing sister of her landlady. Also, it is possible Coraline to rescue their parents, who has kidnapped the real world and locked inside a snow globe that Vettel. Back in the real world, Coraline fights with the help of Wybie from another attack of Vettel. Their claw tries in vain to gain possession of the wall door key which is sunk by the two children in the deep well. Coraline's parents after the expulsion of Vettel no memories of the events. They dedicate their daughter to the catalog publication more attention and make their gifts as well. In the summer, mother and father planted together with the other neighbors on Coraline's wish the garden with tulips. Also Wybie and his grandmother join the garden party.

Production and publication

In addition to screenwriter and director Henry Selick, known from comparable works such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, worked on the film Pete Kozachik as a cinematographer, Christopher Murrie and Ronald Sanders with as editors. The production design designed Henry Selick and composer Bruno Coulais music. The duo They Might Be Giants took for Coraline on several titles, of which but eventually only one song was used for the film. The film was produced by Laika Entertainment and Pandemonium.

The original author Neil Gaiman Coraline is said to have written as a story for his own children, but left Henry Selick very early to get a copy. As an outsider of the film business Selick but it should have been difficult to implement the film, since the necessary financial backers were hard to find. So was also a realization as a real movie in conversation.

Universal Studios distributes the film world. Premiere was on 5 February 2009 at the Portland International Film Festival, followed by theatrical release in North and South America, Europe, Asia, South Africa and Australia. On 13 August 2009, the film was released in Germany. In the USA in 2009 a DVD was released with Coraline at Universal.

The German DVD contained by the first time the 2D version and a 3D version, which is why the double DVD four red-green glasses are included. In the opening credits of the 3D version will be noted that it can take up to five minutes for the 3D effect occurs. Later editions contained only the 2D version.

Synchronization

Reception

David Edelstein of New York Magazine Coraline describes as " excellent, charming and at times unnerving film ," whose traditional animation technique has been enhanced with computer animations. The music is moving between children's choirs and A Night on Bald Mountain and Selick has created for the action breathtaking environments. But the film could have been more focus on the action rather than on the effects gutgetan and the boy Wybie, the Selick has inserted into the action, destroy the climax of the film. On the first four days of film about U.S. $ 18 million was playing a.

German critics praising in particular the combination of stop-motion and computer animation. Thomas Klein, author of the Berliner Zeitung, highlighting the important role that the film is not suitable for children as it thematizing many fears. He also sees in the film a confrontation with a drug addiction that is similar to the dream world initially tempting, but then have serious consequences. According to David Kleingers from the mirror is to implement " in spite of overwhelming desire never effects one Show " and the movie enchant without being cheesy. The act provides no simple morality, but is profound and " plenty of room for unspoken dreams and fears ."

Awards

End of November 2009 Coraline was awarded the BAFTA Children 's Award for Best Film. At the ceremony for the Annie Awards on February 6, 2010 led Selick Regierarbeit with ten nominations, the field of favorite films even before the top ( nine nominations ) to, but had to concede defeat in the categories of film and directed the Pixar production, and won three awards (Best Character Design, best Original Score and Design ).

Also nominated Coraline received in the animated film division at the Academy Awards 2010 Golden Globe Awards 2010, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards 2010 and the film critics association of Washington DC, 2009.