Film screening
Heavenly Creatures
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse
 5, 4051 Basel
"New Zealand, 1954: two 14-year-old girls who feel misunderstood at school and by their parents share a passion for opera tenor Mario Lanza.
Event details
"New Zealand, 1954: Two 14-year-old girls who feel misunderstood at school and by their parents share a passion for opera tenor Mario Lanza. They become friends and boost each other into a dazzling dream world. When their parents try to separate them, their hatred erupts in a crime."
Filmpodium
"Heavenly Creaturesis a poetic psychological thriller based on true facts about the banal origins of evil and the mutual conditionality of idyll and horror. Loosely based on the accounts of the real perpetrators, Jackson's perfectly formed film attempts to reveal the individual and social backgrounds of a spectacular murder case."
Xenix Cinema
"Kate Winslet's acting is brilliant: with wide-set eyes and full lips, her face seems almost hyperreal, like an animation of acumen, mischief, sensuality and eventual sinister hostility. In the course of her career, she became a more mature, less showy, more subtle actress, but always convincing (...). In a way, this first role of hers is the most seductive and the funniest performance of her whole career."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, August 26, 2011
Contributors and additional information:
New Zealand/Germany 1994.
99 min. color. 35 mm. E/d/f
Director: Peter Jackson
Screenplay: Peter Jackson, Frances Wal
Cinematography: Alun Bollinger
Editing: Jamie Selkirk
Music: Peter Dasent
Starring: Kate Winslet, Melanie Linskey, Sarah Peirse
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Filmpodium
"Heavenly Creaturesis a poetic psychological thriller based on true facts about the banal origins of evil and the mutual conditionality of idyll and horror. Loosely based on the accounts of the real perpetrators, Jackson's perfectly formed film attempts to reveal the individual and social backgrounds of a spectacular murder case."
Xenix Cinema
"Kate Winslet's acting is brilliant: with wide-set eyes and full lips, her face seems almost hyperreal, like an animation of acumen, mischief, sensuality and eventual sinister hostility. In the course of her career, she became a more mature, less showy, more subtle actress, but always convincing (...). In a way, this first role of hers is the most seductive and the funniest performance of her whole career."
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, August 26, 2011
Contributors and additional information:
New Zealand/Germany 1994.
99 min. color. 35 mm. E/d/f
Director: Peter Jackson
Screenplay: Peter Jackson, Frances Wal
Cinematography: Alun Bollinger
Editing: Jamie Selkirk
Music: Peter Dasent
Starring: Kate Winslet, Melanie Linskey, Sarah Peirse
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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