The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( Original title: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ) is a British comedy from the year 2011, which started in German cinemas on March 15, 2012. It is based on the published in 2004 novel These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach.

Action

A group of British senior citizens traveling to India for various reasons and ends up in the " Best Exotic Marigold Hotel " in Jaipur. The story is usually shown in different episodes of each character.

Evelyn's husband recently passed away and left her a great debt. Therefore, they tried to give it a new start in India and looks for a job there.

Muriel needs surgery on the hip. Although it has plenty of prejudices against foreigners, she finally flies to India to be operated on there immediately, as the waiting time for a hip replacement surgery in England would be six months.

Douglas and Jean have been married for 39 years. Douglas has invested almost all their savings in the company of his daughter. But the company does not run very well. In order to enjoy a supposedly higher standard of living for less money, the couple flying together to India.

Graham, a respected High Court judge, has already spent his first 18 years of life in India. Shortly before his retirement, he decides to fly to India to roll up there, his experiences of childhood again. He revealed himself as the passengers against gay and finds his childhood sweetheart again.

Norman is looking for a woman. As his search in England, however, is so far not been particularly successful, he opts for a flight to India, in order to seek a wife.

Madge was married several times, but have never had happiness in marriage, so she divorced several times. Also, they want a new start in India and find a suitable husband.

Sonny is the director of " The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ". He is in financial difficulties, so that the closing of the hotel is imminent. He also has family problems, because his mother does not agree with the love of his girlfriend Sunaina.

Reviews

Melanie Lauer wrote in criticism of filmstarts.de that " lean back young and old alike - and with a laughing and a crying eye much about the trials and tribulations of life and, not least, undreamed of opportunities to learn " in this film can.

Johannes von der Gathen praised in the stern.de criticism of 15 March 2012, the actor of the film as "a shiny aufgelegtes ensemble of top-class Anglo-Saxon character actors from Judi Dench about Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy up to Maggie Smith, this journey into Indian Jaipur a real pleasure to do. "

Tim Lindemann is writing to schnitt.de: " The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is pervaded by such a clumsy neo -colonial ideology that are alternated with shame sink in the cinema or would like to shake his head in disbelief. The fact that India, South America and Far East countries in the Western cinema presented pretty backgrounds for the psychological development of white characters are degraded, is nothing new. That a film but with such boundless arrogance celebrates the normativierenden interventions at home failed Europeans in the daily lives of " uncivilized " Orientals, at least in the mainstream cinema of postmodernism become extremely rare. "

Awards

The film was given the rating awarded Especially valuable even before its theatrical release of the film rating Wiesbaden.

At the award ceremony of the European Film Awards 2012 Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, was nominated for the Audience Award.

Continuation

Currently, a sequel is rotated, the theatrical release is planned for 2015.

2011 in film John Madden (director) Screenplay Graham Broadbent Film score Thomas Newman Ben Davis (cinematographer) Golden Gate (film) Shakespeare in Love Killshot (film) The Debt (2011 film)
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