Wonderland (1999 film)

Wonderland ( Alternative title: Wonderland - Find All Love) is a British relationship drama by Michael Winterbottom from 1999 This is a portrait of the city of London, with simple, young people in it, which have in common that they have their place in life. have not been found.

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The metropolis of London, the millennium: The film tells of a few days in the lives of three sisters in their twenties named Debbie, Nadia and Molly. Your immediate surroundings consists primarily of the mother Eileen, whose husband Bill, the neighbors of this couple, his black son Franklyn, Debbie eleven years son Jack and his father Dan and Molly's friend Eddie. The ensemble comes invariably the working class and they all live in cramped apartments or at best in the petty bourgeois idyll. Instead, the evening metropolis presented in dazzling ( neon ) colors over the Thames.

The careworn mother Eileen lives in south London with her defensive man, and day after day driven by the barking dog of the neighbors to distraction. Franklyn, on the other side of the garden fence, fencing itself, meanwhile, in his little room of the unloved from parents, and hears around the clock only music with headphones.

Nadia is a professional operation and single, has alternating Liaisons and tried their luck with dating. The viewer experiences the same age meet Tim, who not only has charm, but also brings some semblance of reliability and honesty. But he turns out to be a disappointment. Tim sends Nadia by public transport home.

Debbie is a hairdresser. From the father of her child, Dan, from which it separated, on nothing but trouble can be expected. Your boy is Dan took off to see the fireworks, and was attacked. Now the eleven, seated at the police station, what makes them the one hand, child -headed, short-tempered on the other hand, Dan is responsible. Dan, Nadia and Debbie meet at the police station, as they pick up the boy.

Molly is pregnant. Molly, a nurse by profession, this could easily imagine a regular family life. Your her partner Eddie is professional seller of fitted kitchens, but loves his job not straight, although he is quite successful. At the worst possible time, he actually quit his job, and does not dare consequently home.

Darren is the only son of the family. He seems relatively satisfied, he has left the parental home early. His birthday is imminent, but the parents are waiting in vain for him.

With a strong kick mother Eileen finally puts the mutt of the neighbors with rat poison to the body, and the barking has an end. Molly brings a healthy daughter, who will carry the name Alice. Eddie might find the courage to stay with her and the kid ( he met her in the hospital actually random from a scooter accident). Darren calls his father after a long time again, and saith to him on the answering machine. Nadia learns before her parents' house neighbor's son Franklyn, whom she has never been seen, and the two go without saying toward the bus stop.

Background

The film was shot in the unusual format of 16 mm, hence the grainy appearance ( aspect ratio 2.35:1 ).

The film was shot in and around London and at The Langham Hilton in Marylebone.

Day of the first performance in the Federal Republic of Germany was the 25th November 1999. On 25 May 2000 Wonderland released on video.

The database Box Office Mojo according to the total income amount in the United States ("Total Lifetime Grosses / Domestic " ) about 414,000 U.S. dollars as at 1 April 2008.

Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt provided with Wonderland his first work on a feature film for the cinema from. Cutter Trevor Waite and producer Andrew Eaton regularly work with Winterbottom. It was his first project with composer Michael Nyman, and the first ever screenplay by Laurence Coriat.

Reviews

  • " A city portrait that paints a vibrant image with laconic humor and prickly rhythm, but it also brings existential undertones of the characters to sound and entertaining the state of urban family relationships describes. " - Lexicon of international film
  • "All in ", " not true intimacy, true in wonderland '. , Wonderland ' is a wonderful portrait of the city and some of its inhabitants, because the film makes clear what moves his people. [ ... ] In contrast to Chereau to Winterbottom interested in his characters. "- Andrew Thomas
  • " Like his heroines tried the wonderfully flowing rhythm of the film the dreary reality to defy enhanced by the magical music [ ... ]. However, even if at the end of the film, the survival fighters pause for a moment whether the newborn, it is clear that this means only a short deep breath. "- Berliner Morgenpost
  • " The British cinema of the late nineties remains true to his interest in socially -inspired fabrics. Michael Winterbottom aiming [ ... ] maximum optical and acoustic realism. [ ... ] This movie is for friends of this kind of cinema appealing entertainment. "- Prism

With the latter, Ken Loach and Mike Leigh are likely to be meant. Winterbottom called Chungking Express, the godfather of many scenes would have been for the appearance: it is " an astonishing mixture of realism and impressionism [ ... ] a landscape that is simultaneously familiar and strange " ( Deborah Allison ).

Sight & Sound in particular praised the appearance of pages Ian Hart and Gina McKee. The author kept the music Michael Nyman over distances are exaggerated, and the film as a whole for a bit too " polished " given the pessimistic, " bittersweet " story. The style will and the video clip aesthetics on the one hand and the documentary " dogma lite" claim (or cinéma vérité ) on the other hand, would result in a creatively ambiguous film. The final minutes were really impressive.

Roger Ebert welcomed a work, in which for once again would be the figures of concern. The goal is not pure entertainment, the film was so far meant honest than that he does not draw any conclusions.

The New York Times held Wonderland for uneven, little happy, and unfortunately for content predictable.

Stephanie Zacharek at Salon.com formulated on July 28, 2000: " [ ... ] aggressively depressing [ ... ] is meant to be manipulated to the point of numbness. "

Awards and nominations

  • Nomination Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for Michele Camarda, Andrew Eaton and Michael Winterbottom
  • British Independent Film Award for Best British Film category
  • British Independent Film Award nomination in the Best Actress category for Gina McKee
  • British Independent Film Award nomination in the Best Director category for Michael Winterbottom
  • Golden Palm nomination for Michael Winterbottom. The award went to Rosetta by Jean -Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
  • Nomination Golden Spike for Michael Winterbottom
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