Entertainment (2015)

Slo naslov: -

Država: ZDA

Leto: 2015

Dolžina: 103',  Imdb

Žanri: Drama 

Slo recenzija: -

Režija: Rick Alverson

Scenarij: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington, Tim Heidecker

Igrajo: Gregg Turkington, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Michael Cera, Amy Seimetz, Lotte Verbeek 

[ENG]

A broken, aging comedian tours the California desert, lost in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled by the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement, he trudges through a series of increasingly surreal and volatile encounters.

[About director/writer Rick Alverson]

Rick Alverson (1971) is a filmmaker from Richmond, Virginia. His dramatic feature The Comedy (2012) premiered in competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. His first feature, The Builder, was released by the renowned independent record label Jagjaguwar in 2010. New Jerusalem (2011), his second feature, starring Colm O'leary (The Builder) and Will Oldham (Matewan, Old Joy), and premiered at the 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam and SXSW in 2011. That same year he was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He has directed videos for Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen, Bonny Prince Billy, Benjamin Booker and among others. In addition to his directorial work he has released 9 records on Jagjaguwar, most recently with his band Spokane in 2007. In 2015 he finished his fourth feature, Entertainment.   

[Production]

Gregg Turkington had previously appeared in director Rick Alverson's The Comedy. Alverson proposed to Turkington the idea of making a film based on his character Neil Hamburger. The two discussed what Hamburger's character would be like off stage, both finding that his life would be dull and not very dynamic. Turkington had been previously offered to make a film or television programs revolving around the character approaching people in the street which he felt was wrong for the character and was far more interested in a film that he described as a "Two-Lane Blacktop” art film kind of vibe."

The film's script was written by Alverson, Turkington and Tim Heidecker. The film's dialogue is improvised. Turkington described the dialogue as "really more based on descriptions of the tone or the mood that was needed in particular scenes, and kind of running with that.

Turkington and Alverson initially disagreed on some aspects of the Neil Hamburger character, such as never showing the character without his glasses and never showing the character talking in a normal voice. Alverson felt the film wouldn't be credible if Turkington constantly spoke in his Neil Hamburger voice. Among the locations Hamburger visits in the film is an aircraft boneyard. No actual tours take place at the location which was part of a military facility in Mojave, California, which allowed them a few hours to film where the could only shoot the film in certain directions.

[Festivals]

2015 - Sundance Film Festival – NEXT Section 

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