Ich habe keine Ahnung welche Premiere es war. Könnte vielleicht London gewesen sein...
Ich möchte langsam mal wissen, ob YA nun in unsere Kinos kommt, oder nicht. Sogar die Niederlande haben einen Starttermin.
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Die Awards werden am 4. November vergeben. Joaquin Phoenix (:liv:), 28 Days Later und Buffalo Soldiers sind u.a. ebenfalls nominiert und Ian McKellen bekommt einen Ehren-Award.According to Empire, Young Adam has been nominated for four awards at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA):
Best British Independent Film
Best Actor (Ewan, of course)
Best Actress (Tilda Swinton)
Best Director (David MacKenzie)
5/5 stars from BBC Films
Poetic justice? Leave it to the romantics, liberal bleeding hearts, and John Grisham.
Those of you with similarly delicate sensibilities should steer clear of David Mackenzie's adaptation of the carnal pulp noir "Young Adam", penned in 1957 by Glasgow beatnik Alexander Trocchi.
Watching it is rather like finding yourself impaled on a steel rod. It is sharp, cold, and thoroughly riveting.
In maybe his most finely tuned performance, Ewan McGregor is quietly profound as Joe. He is the artist as a young man: a frustrated writer drifting through life on the Scottish canals, forced to find actual paying work aboard a barge captained by salt-of-the-earth Les (Peter Mullan).
A sense of foreboding is palpable from the outset when Joe and Les happen upon the bloated, semi-naked corpse of a young woman bobbing on the water. In their otherwise dull, workaday existence, the grisly find sparks a minor intrigue.
Joe also finds diversion in the form of Les' inscrutable wife Ella (a hard-as-nails Tilda Swinton). Without any obvious moral compunction, he uses sex like a sedative, and is hopelessly addicted.
Mackenzie plays with time to weave a subtle but beautifully intricate tapestry of Joe's spiritual demise. In a skilful use of flashbacks he draws upon Joe's relationship with malleable ex-girlfriend Cathie, who is fearlessly laid bare by Emily Mortimer.
The most arresting scene - indeed the most disturbing - draws in graphic detail the brutality of Joe's sexual relationship with Cathie. It becomes apparent that, for Joe, sex is more an expression of anger than love.
"Young Adam" completely shatters the sanitised image of 50s Britain as, inch by inch, Mackenzie pulls you nose-deep into Joe's crushing existential anxiety. The effect is seamless.
But be warned: Don't expect to exit the theatre with warm and fuzzy notions of redemption, or salvation. Mackenzie coolly denies you any comfort, because sometimes the end is just the end, and that's all.
"Young Adam" is released in UK cinemas on Friday 26th September 2003.

Ewan loses light-sabre
Julie Goodhand
Put them away. Och aye the nude and all that. The nation is wincing in sympathy as Ewan McGregor's meat and two veg look set for the chop. Purely in a metaphorical sense we'd like to add.
The kilt-fancying grinner bares his pride and joy in latest film Young Adam but the US censors have decided it's all too much - lucky Ewan - and want the offending scene removed.
“They are cutting me off in America," laughs Ewan at the fate of his personal light-sabre. "You can blow thousands of people’s heads off with a semi-automatic machine gun but you can’t show a picture of my willy."
Resigned to the fact the world won't get to see his John Thomas, Ewan informs us: “I believe they’re cutting the scene out. They’re a bit worried about willies in the States, they are a bit worried about seeing my old chap. It’s not something I am worried about terribly much.”
Ewan is no shrinking violet when it comes to waving his wand at the camera. Audiences have previously been delighted/appalled (delete as applicable) to see the parts only Mrs McGregor reaches in films such as Trainspotting and The Pillow Book.
For Ewan it's just a question of art reflecting life. “I have always thought that film should reflect life. I am nude all the time at home."
Remind us not to accept that garden party invitation at the McGregor residence.


findest du?Lady-Bant-Eerin hat geschrieben:
Das auf meinem Ava ist Charles 'Trip' Tucker oder Connor Trinneer aus der Serie "Enterprise". Find den Kerl so knuffig, ausserdem hat er die beste Rolle in der Serie.



