Screenshot of the movie The Immortal Gardener
The movie "The Immortal Gardener" includes a variety of elements such as love, politics, suspense, etc., and can even be used as a tourism propaganda film and a charity film.
Poster for the movie The Immortal Gardener
Justin, a diplomat at the British Embassy in Kenya, is easy-going and has a bland life, and he only loves to take care of the flowers and trees in his garden. One day, however, bad luck befell the transcendent man. His wife, Tessa, a justice lawyer, is found dead on the outskirts of the country and is found to have been killed by her lover.
Justin was struck by this sunny thunderbolt, and after angry, he carefully considered and felt that the official statement was full of loopholes, so the peaceful and gentle man vowed to find out the truth about his wife's death.
The film is based on John Le Carré's novel The Eternal Gardener, and when British independent filmmaker Simon Channing Williams saw John Le Carré's novel in advance in late 2000, he immediately wrote to the author's lawyer, and in an enthusiastic letter, Williams pleaded that the novel could be made into a movie.
John Le Carré
As the film's filming schedule took shape, novelist and screenwriter Jeffrey Kane decided to take on the challenge of adapting the screenplay. He also said that he has always liked the work of John Le Carré. And Le Carré not only agreed with Kane's ideas, but also encouraged him to make bold changes, so that we have the plot we see now.
The customs and customs from Afrika
The most attractive part of the film was that the director and cinematography showed a vibrant Africa, in fact, the producers originally intended to shoot most of the Kenyan scenes in South Africa, because the South African film industry was booming and the infrastructure was perfect, and later director Fernando Merrills suggested shooting in Kenya.
Thousands of staggered slums of the poor are filled with color, restlessness, energy and smiles. Whether it is a true portrayal of local life or not, these shots make people both admire and curious about them.
When the little boy named Kaka in the film walks dozens of miles to present flowers to the dead Tessa, and when the little girl named Abu runs after her because she can't get on the plane of the rescuers, maybe we should thank life once again for everything it has to offer us.
We can enjoy life, and on the far african continent, where children have no clothes to wear, they get sick and have to wait for death and drug relief from strangers.
In addition to the good subject matter and field shooting, the cast also added a lot of points to the film.
English gentleman with thorny roses
The diplomat Justin in the film is played by "Voldemort" Ralph Fiennes, and the most talked about nature is his eyes, no matter what words are used to describe, it is always reasonable, and those eyes can not be forgotten after seeing them once.
It is precisely because of the accurate expression of the subtext in the eyes, his depression, alone and forbearing, that it is more heart-wrenching, it is the kind of pain that points directly to the core, and silence is better than sound.
He rose to fame with Schindler's List, won the 69th Academy Awards for Best Actor for The English Patient, and created a memorable image in films such as Duchess and Harry Potter.
The English Patient
Especially in "The Immortal Gardener", he wears only an old T-shirt, but he is full of elegant gentlemanly atmosphere, running through the streets of Africa is like walking in his secret garden, and the sweet memories reveal the heartache of loss.
I remember him sitting by the window with a heartbroken look, and finally the lonely back told us I AM HOME NOW.
Tessa is played by the most beautiful heroine of "The Mummy", Rachel Weiz, because she is too beautiful, she lost many opportunities, and has long been regarded as a charming vase.
She won the 78th Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the 63rd Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Immortal Gardener. Break your own vase spell with your own hands. After that, her acting path became more and more prosperous, and 2015's "Young and Vigorous" made her one of the camps of a new generation of literary and artistic film goddesses. Someone even said, "The name Rachel Weiss is the guarantee of a good movie." ”
Rachel Weiz
Weiss's performance in this film can be described as otherworldly, her beauty, her bravery, and her love for her husband are extremely well interpreted, in the wild land of Africa, like a rose, beautiful and wild.
"Smart and tough, she's like Elizabeth Taylor with a Ph.D.," the Times said of Rachel Vichy. Her assessment of herself is more wild: although it is not an English rose, I am full of thorns!!!
At the end of the day, the film is a film about love. Whether it is the protagonist's great love for the Kenyan people, or the small love between the male and female protagonists, this is love.
Tonight at 21:58, the movie channel has a good movie appointment - "The Gardener Who Never Stops"