Me and Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles (Original Title: Me and Orson Welles ) is a film drama from 2008 Directed by Richard Linklater film based on the novel by Robert Kaplow and was premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival..

Action

In 1937, the culturally interested 17- year-old Richard Samuels meets in New York City happen to the actor and director Orson Welles before soon be opened Mercury Theatre. Welles spontaneously offers him the role of the lute player Lucius in the play Julius Caesar, which Welles directed straight there. In the hustle and bustle of the many new people around him noticed Richard that the ambitious and attractive production assistant Sonja Jones feels attracted to him.

A few days before the premiere Welles tells Richard that he is concerned that they have not had a bad luck in the samples and could mean that the premiere bad runs and the piece will be a flop. During rehearsals, Richard accidentally triggers the sprinkler, and this event is considered by Welles as the longed-for misfortune. After a trial Welles lets the ensemble playing a Verkuppelungsspiel. It succeeds Richard by a trick that he can spend the evening with Sonja, whereupon the two spend the night together in the connector. The next night, however, Sonja spends with Welles what Richard can be jealous. Subsequently, Richard confronted his director saying that he has affairs, although he is married and his wife pregnant. Due to this, he is fired from Welles.

In a conversation on a park bench, the two seem to reconcile, then Richard is allowed to play at the premiere. The performance of Julius Caesar in an anti-fascist interpretation is a complete success. At the celebration after the play Richard learns of the cast member Joseph Cotten, that it was used only for the premiere and is now finally released and already another actor was found for the role. However, at the end of the film he meets another girl he had met at the beginning of the film. This also culture-creating girls he wants to go into the future together.

Criticism

" The movie theater stands out due to the thoroughness and the enthusiasm with which the creation of the play is traced. The romantic " coming- of-age " story acts against this background initially relatively banal, but then unfolds through the feedback to the figure of Orson Welles interesting facets. "

" The story told here on the bestseller by Robert Kaplow could have played in his time quite similar. But director Richard Linklater moved too much on delivering a consistent time frame. In addition, he has obviously forgotten to tell a gripping story. Thus, what is shown is indeed quite interesting ( the resurrection of the phenomenon Welles as an all-rounder ), but ripples temporarily paralyzing arg to himself, so that the viewer can only enjoy decor and costumes. From the theater everyday between envy, jealousy and competition too little is shown here. Stark, however: Christian McKay as Orson Welles ".

Awards

Christian McKay was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the British Academy Film Awards 2010. He also received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Chlotrudis Awards in the same year.

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