Hilary and Jackie

• Emily Watson: Jacqueline du Pré
• Rachel Griffiths: Hilary du Pré
• David Morrissey: Kiffer Finzi
• James Frain: Daniel Barenboim
• Charles Dance: Derek du Pré

Hilary and Jackie is a 1998 film directed by Anand Tucker turned. It is about the complicated relationship of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré at her sister Hilary.

Action

Both sisters, between which the children was an extremely close bond, even then showed her extraordinary musical talent. Hilary, which was initially as the more talented, but decided to give up her flute in favor of marriage and children, while Jacqueline just helps her effort to outdo the sister to a global career. She goes on a world tour, without necessarily find their fulfillment. Rather, they first tried to dissuade her sister the man and then, to persuade her to leave her husband, even during her relationship with Daniel Barenboim. Finally, Hilary Jackie asks her to leave the country. Then, at the age of 28 years, Jackie suffers from multiple sclerosis and died fourteen years later.

Description

The film told from varying perspectives the relationship of siblings. During the beginning and end are shown uniformly, is shown after the start of the tour by Jackie first, as the lives of the remaining Hilary is always characterized by the absent sister, Hilary is jealous because of the overwhelming success and their behavior seems puzzling during the visits. When Jackie leaves the country home of Hilary and her husband, the film's spaces, which interpret Jackie as manic, uncontrollable person that only her sister towards feel love and who can not engage in a serious relationship with Barenboim fills.

Barenboim distanced himself from the film, the Jacqueline du Pré as mentally unstable and describes their common relationship can not be in the best light. He had during the relationship with Jackie having an affair with another woman and fathered a child with this. However, the film was based on a " biographical novel " by Hilary and Piers du Pré, Jackie's sister and brother. Thus, they distanced themselves aware of a biography from and filed a claim to truthful representation.

The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce later wrote the children's book Millions, which was awarded by the weekly newspaper Die Zeit with the Lynx in 2005 as the best children 's books of the year and also filmed.

Awards

Emily Watson ( " Best Actress " ) and Rachel Griffiths ( " Best Supporting Actress " ) were both nominated for an Oscar. Emily Watson has also been nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama as well, but missed out for a BAFTA Award, in which the film was nominated in a total of 5 categories.