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Blue Car is a 2002 American drama film directed and written by Karen Moncrieff. It was the first film she directed and wrote.[2] The film stars David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin, and Frances Fisher.

Blue Car
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Karen Moncrieff
Written by	Karen Moncrieff
Produced by	Peer J. Oppenheimer Amy Sommer David Waters
Starring	David Strathairn Agnes Bruckner Margaret Colin Frances Fisher
Cinematography	Rob Sweeney
Edited by	Toby Yates
Music by	Adam Gorgoni
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release dates	January 11, 2002 (2002-01-11) (Sundance Film Festival) May 2, 2003 (2003-05-02) (United States)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	< $500,000[1]

Plot

Megan is a teenage gifted writer living in the Dayton, Ohio area. She has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her mother, who works 12-hour days and goes to school at night, leaving Megan to babysit her younger sister, Lily. The girls' father does not pay child support, causing financial strain in the household.

Lily has serious emotional problems; she cuts herself, refuses to eat, and speaks about becoming an angel. After being checked into the psychiatric ward of a hospital, Lily kills herself by jumping out of an open window as she tries to "fly". Meg finds solace in her English teacher, Mr. Auster, who claims he is passionate about writing a novel. He becomes a comfort to Megan, and encourages her to enter a poetry contest, which is later followed by one-on-one poetry tutoring.

After winning the local round of the competition, Megan wants to compete at the finals in Florida during spring break. With her mother unable and unwilling to fund the trip, Megan resorts to stealing and is barely able to make it to Florida.

A closer, pseudo-sexual relationship develops between Megan and Mr. Auster. The two run into each other outside the hotel that is hosting the poetry competition and go to a hotel room, where Megan reluctantly has sex with Mr. Auster, who stops after realizing that she is not comfortable with the situation. After this, Megan realizes that Mr. Auster has not written a novel at all, and that it was all just a ruse to impress her. After writing and delivering a brand new poem subtly denouncing Mr. Auster, Megan walks out of the competition. Later, back home, she decides to live with her father, riding away with him in his blue car.

Cast

• Agnes Bruckner as Megan Denning
• David Strathairn as Auster
• Margaret Colin as Diane
• Frances Fisher as Delia
• A. J. Buckley as Pat
• Regan Arnold as Lily
• Sarah Buehler as Georgia
• Dustin Sterling as Rob
• Mike Ward as Dad
• Wayne Armstrong as Don

Production

Karen Moncrieff wrote the screenplay for the film thinking it would not be produced because it was so "uncommercial", but it won the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1998.[3]

Blue Car was filmed in Dayton, Ohio during June of 2001.[1] Filming took 20 days.[3]

Reception

Release

Blue Car premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.[4] It was acquired by Miramax for one million dollars and given a limited theatrical release on May 2, 2003.[5] It also screened at the Toronto Film Festival.[3]

Home media

Blue Car was released on DVD on October 14, 2003 in the United States and Canada.[6]

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 89 reviews. The website's critical consensus states that the film is "a cautionary tale that rings true."[7] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[8]

In a positive review, Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly compared Moncrieff to Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, writing "Each has a knockout storytelling voice and works with a raw, innately feminine strength that scrubs away the soapy film from sad sagas."[9] Much praise was given to David Strathairn's performance, with Stephen Holden of The New York Times writing his "complex, exquisitely nuanced portrayal of a man who goes over the line allows his character to be both hero and villain, sometimes at once."[2] Agnes Bruckner was also lauded for what many critics called a breakout performance.[2][10][11]

Holden added, "Although the movie revolves around the deepening student-teacher relationship, it is only one of many ambiguous connections placed under a microscope. [It] is fascinated by what the therapists nowadays call 'boundary issues,' and the film imagines how tempting it is for the more powerful person in a relationship, whether a teacher or a parent, to transgress those boundaries."[2]

Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote, "Primarily a character study, Blue Car has the feel of a novel in which the characters linger in one's memory well after the book has been read," and that the film "is like an unpolished sapphire, at once harshly realistic and resplendent."[11] The film was also New York's pick for "sleeper hit of the fall."[10]

References

External links

• Blue Car at IMDb
• Blue Car at AllMovie
• Blue Car at Box Office Mojo
• Blue Car at Metacritic
• Blue Car at Rotten Tomatoes

На других языках

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[de] Blue Car – Poesie des Sommers

Blue Car – Poesie des Sommers (Originaltitel: Blue Car) ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 2002. Regie führte Karen Moncrieff, die auch das Drehbuch schrieb.

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- [en] Blue Car

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