if i ever read a bad review of this i'll probably set myself on fire
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Privatier Henry Graham wird von seinem Vermögensverwalter vor vollendete Tatsachen gestellt. Sein kostenintensiver Lebensstil hat nach und nach sein Vermögen aufgefressen, so dass er vor der Pleite steht. Henry sieht nur einen Ausweg: die Sanierung durch die Heirat einer solventen Frau. Er nimmt bei seinem Onkel Harry einen Kredit zu sehr ungünstigen Konditionen auf, um in den nächsten Wochen den Schein aufrechterhalten zu können. Bei einer Teetafel lernt er die Botanikerin Henrietta Lowell kennen. Sie ist Erbin eines riesigen Vermögens, alleinstehend und sehr tollpatschig. Henry wittert seine Chance und macht Henrietta erfolgreich den Hof. Nach der Hochzeit will er sich seiner lästigen Ehefrau entledigen, jedoch hat er mittlerweile Gefühle für Henrietta entwickelt und bringt es nicht übers Herz, sie zu ermorden. Am Ende erfüllt sich Henriettas großer Wunsch: Sie entdecken gemeinsam eine noch nicht beschriebene Pflanze, deren Name künftig den Zusatz „Grahami“ tragen wird.
A New Leaf läuft in 1 Kino in Los Angeles - nächste Vorstellung Donnerstag, 20. August um 13:40 im Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown Los Angeles.
Du siehst die Vorstellungen von heute.Vollständiger Spielplan & Filter
if i ever read a bad review of this i'll probably set myself on fire
The punchline is that in order for a man to see a woman as a human being deserving of life, she has to grant him immortality. That's a pretty funny understatement.52 project: 42/52
An absolutely toxic screwball that doesn't so much update the genre for a nihilistic and self-absorbed era as demonstrate that the genre had beaten society to that punch by a good 40 years. Matthau is a collection of faces housed in a shambling figure, a trickster god finally outsmarted after millennia of existence by his own profligacy. The montage of him morosely bidding farewell to the trappings of his life as he slowly drives around town in his collapsing Ferrari is just about as British as American class comedy can get, and Henry's transition into a Bluebeard/Verdoux grotesque only completes the black joke. At the other end is May herself, who manages to play both the leads in Bringing Up Baby at once: the dizzy, chaotic heiress and the bumbling, repressed scientist. In front of and behind the camera, May slows down the speed of screwball to a crawl, drawing out the absolutely agonizing tension between Henrietta's sweet, trusting clumsiness and Henry's murderous glances. The scene of Henry helping her with her nightgown is hilarious for its comedy of errors as well as its protracted stop-start motion that drags entirely too long and becomes all the funnier for it. The absolute loathing that crosses Matthau's face as he calmly helps is so bleakly funny. The ending is damn near the midpoint climax of Sunrise, albeit played as a totally grim commentary on itself.
A broke playboy hatches a plan to marry a wealthy, socially awkward botanist to inherit her fortune, intending to murder her shortly after the wedding.
Elaine May directed this 1971 comedy, marking her debut as a feature film director.
Yes, it is widely regarded as a pitch-black comedy that satirizes high society and marriage through its cynical yet unexpectedly tender narrative.