The Goldfinch (2019)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 149 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Oakes Fegley and Aneurin Barnard
IMDb score:
6,4 (29.755)
Releasedate: 12 September 2019
The Goldfinch plot
"The story of a stolen life"
13-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker's life is turned upside down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack on the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Completely confused by this tragic event, he steals the precious painting The Goldfinch, by the Dutch painter Carel Fabritius. The film follows his life after this event and the loss of his mother.
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Actors and actresses
Theodore Decker
Young Theodore Decker
Samantha Barbour
James 'Hobie' Hobart
Larry Decker
Xandra
Kitsey Barbour
Boris Pavlikovsky
Young Boris Pavlikovsky
Pippa
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 9762 messages
- 3190 votes
“In Amsterdam, I dreamed I saw my mother again.”
Messy. The Goldfinch feels rushed, and right from the start an incredible amount of information is presented to the viewer. The fact that there are a number of time jumps in the first part doesn't help either. The story is interesting, and it is a shame that the director focuses on the wrong things.
The bond between Theo and Pippa is interesting, but unfortunately the focus of the film is on the crime subplot and the boring scenes between Theo and Boris. The best scene in the film is when Theo and Pippa sit across from each other in a cafe and talk about what happened to them, and why Pippa lives in London instead of New York. The Goldfinch would have done well with more scenes like this.
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Brandt
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- 364 messages
- 293 votes
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt is a masterpiece (I think) of almost 900 pages. Tartt writes in such detail that the book itself is almost a script. I understand very well that there was a fight for rights. Because what a story! Unfortunately, the director wants to cram all these pages into one movie. And of course that is not possible, wrong choices are made. That's where things go wrong with The Goldfinch. The part that takes place in the suburbs of Las Vegas is masterfully described. Theo and Boris consume enormous amounts of Vodka and other intoxicants on a piece of junk food, it is painful but at times also hilarious what happens in that terrible place. The reader sees that things are going completely wrong for Theo and is relieved when he leaves. This is not made tangible in the film. And where is Theo's mother? She hardly appears in the picture, even though she is so important to him. The goldfinch is also barely shown, although there is still something to be said about it. Then those strange time jumps, that takes the pace out of the story. The music is sickening and I could go on and on. It is always the same with book adaptations: the film does not match the book. I actually only know of two exceptions to this rule: Trainspotting and The Godfather. Anyway. I want to end on a bit of a positive note. the story is quite interesting, the actors are in good shape, especially the young Theo and Boris, and it all takes place in locations that you normally don't see in an American film. My tip: read Donna Tartt's Goldfinch, or the hidden history. The latter is her famous debut novel and I don't think it has yet been made into a film.
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Lavrot
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- 942 messages
- 0 votes
Beforehand I thought well, let me record this, because ... Nicole Kidman plays in it, and coincidence or not, I recently saw two goldfinches. Beautiful birds with bright red, white, gray and black. I knew very little about the work of art, but it was not completely unknown.
When I sat down to watch this meal yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised by the pleasant atmosphere in which the story was wrapped. Here and there a look back, then a fragment of a dream or a fragment of a memory. I like cut-up story structures so that I can keep the thread together myself. The role of young Theo was beautifully played by the spitting image of Potter, as he was called by his friend Boris. The light-shunning black Boris got along well with the other strange guy, uhh guy... The older but still youthful Theo indeed had that same smooth, almost too perfect appearance; someone whose outside you could never fathom what is going on inside. The role of Hobie was also portrayed very believably and sympathetically. Kidman shone in redundancy. She barely had any screen time, but that didn't detract from the movie.
Ultimately, the painting acquired the metaphysical meaning that of course had to remain hidden for a long time, coupled with a glimpse of the veil of the future, in the form of a letter to Pipa. Nice!
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