RATING - 3.5 STARS
This modern fairy tale Winter's Tale combines an impressive range of evocative names on camera: Colin Farrell, Will Smith, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, just to name a few. When did you last see so many familiar and especially so different actors together in a movie?
But be honest: Who knows names such as: Akiva Goldsman, Caleb Deschanel, Tim Squyres or Wayne Wahrman? In order to reveal the same: These are not little extras from the third row on the left, but her character the writer-director, the cameraman and the section in charge of the film. How this fits together? Hard to say, but after all, so characteristic of this film ... Winter's Tale tells the story of Irish-born Peter Lake (Colin Farrell).
Peter was hundreds of years ago off the coast of Manhattan exposed as a baby by his parents in a small model sailing ship, after the family was denied entry into the land of freedom. Although Little Peter survived, but reared calculated by the New York underground boss Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) and later as a burglar. When he turns away from his guardian, this seeks to take his life. But Peter arrives at the last minute a white horse to the rescue, which can even fly in an emergency. Peter goes into hiding, but later breaks into a house. There he meets the beautiful but terminally ill Beverly (Jessica Brown Findlay). It is for both love at first sight. But Soames' Reaver them are already on the track ...
This is just the beginning of a truly incredible story that just makes even sometime a time jump of a hundred years. But flying in a modern fairy tale in which white horses extremely relaxed about New York's skyline, as just very special forces are acting on: Winter's Tale describes nothing less than the eternal struggle between good and evil, the mysterious power of the almighty fate and the mystic interconnectedness of all things in the universe. Because while there are no pigs, but at least horses in the universe.
This extremely well-intentioned confusion of incredible esoteric quark and zuckerbäckersüßem Romantic kitsch is only partly to the account of the filmmaker, who otherwise presents his feature film directorial debut here at the tender age of fifty years. Winter's Tale is based on the novel by Mark Helprin from the year 1983. The film offers very fine actors again and again really touching scenes that will only result no larger whole. Also, Winter's Tale quite nice to look at and mostly unfolds a truly magical atmosphere that is only relatively rare for it then but the more sustainable undermined by poorly made and inappropriate CGI effects and similar lapses of taste.
It is not enough that Russell Crowe plays truly diabolical, no, because his face has in the meantime also mutate to clearly computer animated Dämonenvisage. At the latest when Russell Crowe just hits Will Smith MIB as a devil, the matter is then unintentionally funny. After all, it can be said without any exaggeration that the end of the film, most moviegoers will leave you speechless, though for very different reasons. Little girls more horse enthusiasts and fans of nude yoga will find the finale probably incredibly poignant, most of the rest just so incredibly ... (Gregor Torinus)
Peter was hundreds of years ago off the coast of Manhattan exposed as a baby by his parents in a small model sailing ship, after the family was denied entry into the land of freedom. Although Little Peter survived, but reared calculated by the New York underground boss Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe) and later as a burglar. When he turns away from his guardian, this seeks to take his life. But Peter arrives at the last minute a white horse to the rescue, which can even fly in an emergency. Peter goes into hiding, but later breaks into a house. There he meets the beautiful but terminally ill Beverly (Jessica Brown Findlay). It is for both love at first sight. But Soames' Reaver them are already on the track ...
This is just the beginning of a truly incredible story that just makes even sometime a time jump of a hundred years. But flying in a modern fairy tale in which white horses extremely relaxed about New York's skyline, as just very special forces are acting on: Winter's Tale describes nothing less than the eternal struggle between good and evil, the mysterious power of the almighty fate and the mystic interconnectedness of all things in the universe. Because while there are no pigs, but at least horses in the universe.
This extremely well-intentioned confusion of incredible esoteric quark and zuckerbäckersüßem Romantic kitsch is only partly to the account of the filmmaker, who otherwise presents his feature film directorial debut here at the tender age of fifty years. Winter's Tale is based on the novel by Mark Helprin from the year 1983. The film offers very fine actors again and again really touching scenes that will only result no larger whole. Also, Winter's Tale quite nice to look at and mostly unfolds a truly magical atmosphere that is only relatively rare for it then but the more sustainable undermined by poorly made and inappropriate CGI effects and similar lapses of taste.
It is not enough that Russell Crowe plays truly diabolical, no, because his face has in the meantime also mutate to clearly computer animated Dämonenvisage. At the latest when Russell Crowe just hits Will Smith MIB as a devil, the matter is then unintentionally funny. After all, it can be said without any exaggeration that the end of the film, most moviegoers will leave you speechless, though for very different reasons. Little girls more horse enthusiasts and fans of nude yoga will find the finale probably incredibly poignant, most of the rest just so incredibly ... (Gregor Torinus)
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