Clean (2004/I)

Regisseur:

Olivier Assayas

Drehbuchautor:

Olivier Assayas (writer)

Premierendatum:

1. September 2004 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Musik

Werbezeile:

When you don't have a choice, you change.

Plot:

The former successful forty-two years old rock star Lee Hauser is decadent and his friends blame his...

Plot Keywords:

Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship | Dead Son | Loss Of Loved One | Rock Concert | Waitress

Filmpreise:

2 wins & 7 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

"Clean" does a good job looking at some dirty things

Besetzung

Maggie Cheung	...	Emily Wang
Nick Nolte	...	Albrecht Hauser
Béatrice Dalle	...	Elena
Jeanne Balibar	...	Irene Paolini
Don McKellar	...	Vernon
Martha Henry	...	Rosemary Hauser
James Johnston	...	Lee Hauser
James Dennis	...	Jay
Rémi Martin	...	Jean-Pierre
Laetitia Spigarelli	...	Sandrine
Arnaud Churin	...	Store Manager
Man Kit Cheung	...	Restaurant Owner
Kurtys Kidd	...	Detective
Shaun Austin-Olsen	...	Record Label Owner
Jodi Crawford	...	Gloria

MPAA:

Rated R for drug content, language and brief nudity.

Länge:

111 Min | France:110 Min | USA:90 Min | Argentina:110 Min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)

Produktionsland:

Canada | France | UK

Sprache:

Französisch | Englisch | Kantonesisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby SR

Altersfreigabe:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Australia:M | Argentina:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:15 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | Brazil:14

Drehorte:

Gare du Nord, Paris 10, Paris, France

Firma:

Rectangle Productions

Dies und das:

Lead actress Maggie Cheung and director Olivier Assayas were already divorced when they made this movie.

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Soundtrack:

Knives From Balvaria

"Clean" does a good job looking at some dirty things

Although it seems like Nick Nolte has spent his entire career playing miserable characters - save "Hotel Rwanda" - then "Clean" justifies most of his roles. Maggie Cheung plays Emily Wang, a woman in Hamilton, Ontario, with a past of drug addiction and other life-ruining things. Following a raid, her son gets taken away from her and sent to live with his grandfather Albrecht (Nolte) in Vancouver, B.C. So, Maggie decides to restart her life in Paris. While visiting London, Albrecht takes the grandson to Paris to visit her, and then has to face a moral dilemma about whether or not keeping the boy from his mother is a good idea.

This is certainly a scathing look at drug usage. Many of the camera angles make you feel like you're sinking into her world of desperation, and you just might feel like you've been kicked in the gut. As always, Nolte does a really good job as a person living a seemingly pathetic life. So I recommend it, but not for the fainthearted.