Film screening
Carnage
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse 5, 4051 Basel
"Polanski's film is a faithful adaptation of Yasmina Reza's play 'The God of Carnage,' which made a splash on Broadway.
Event details
"Polanski's film is a faithful adaptation of the play 'The God of Carnage' by Yasmina Reza, which made a splash on Broadway. Two middle-class couples (one more, the other less) meet in one couple's apartment to talk out an argument - or rather a brawl - between their two children. While at the beginning there was a desire for reconciliation, the situation eventually escalates increasingly ..."
Arte Journal, 07.12.2011
"One could accuse Polanski of making himself - as he did withGhostwriter- a slave to the original. That he relies too much on his actors instead of giving it a more personal stamp. But why, when the actors are as good as they are here? John C. Reilly easily transforms from sympathetic cuddly bear to rabid boar. Kate Winslet is one of the greatest cinema drunks since Elizabeth Taylor inWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (...) A film about bad people being bad to each other. How can it be that good?"
Daniel Sander, Spiegel, 11/24/2011
"Between bourgeois echauffiertheit and act of violence lies here only a slight.Carnageist a wicked, pleasurable, hardly subtle and thoroughly bourgeois fun."
Birgit Glombitza, epd Film, 01.11.2011
Contributors and additional information:
France/Germany/USA/etc. 2011.
80 min. color. 35 mm. E/d/f
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenplay: Based on a play by Yasmina Reza, Roman Polanski
Cinematography: Pawel Edelman
Editing: Hervé de Luze
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Arte Journal, 07.12.2011
"One could accuse Polanski of making himself - as he did withGhostwriter- a slave to the original. That he relies too much on his actors instead of giving it a more personal stamp. But why, when the actors are as good as they are here? John C. Reilly easily transforms from sympathetic cuddly bear to rabid boar. Kate Winslet is one of the greatest cinema drunks since Elizabeth Taylor inWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (...) A film about bad people being bad to each other. How can it be that good?"
Daniel Sander, Spiegel, 11/24/2011
"Between bourgeois echauffiertheit and act of violence lies here only a slight.Carnageist a wicked, pleasurable, hardly subtle and thoroughly bourgeois fun."
Birgit Glombitza, epd Film, 01.11.2011
Contributors and additional information:
France/Germany/USA/etc. 2011.
80 min. color. 35 mm. E/d/f
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenplay: Based on a play by Yasmina Reza, Roman Polanski
Cinematography: Pawel Edelman
Editing: Hervé de Luze
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.