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The Constant Gardener (film)
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| The Constant Gardener | |
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| Directed by | Fernando Meirelles |
| Produced by | Simon Channing-Williams and Gail Egan |
| Screenplay by | Jeffrey Caine |
| Story by | John le Carré (novel) |
| Starring | Ralph Fiennes Rachel Weisz Hubert Koundé Danny Huston Bill Nighy John Sibi-Okumu Packson Ngugi Archie Panjabi Pete Postlethwaite |
| Music by | Alberto Iglesias |
| Cinematography | César Charlone |
| Editing by | Claire Simpson |
| Distributed by | Focus Features |
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| Running time | 129 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $82,466,670 |
The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston and Bill Nighy. It was filmed on location in Loiyangalani and the slums of Kibera, a section of Nairobi, Kenya. The situation affected the cast and crew to the extent that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust in order to provide basic education for these villages.
The DVD versions were released in the United States on 1 January 2006 and in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2006.
The plot was based on a real-life case in Kano, Nigeria.
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[edit] Plot
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Justin, a shy low-rung British diplomat and horticultural hobbyist posted in Kenya, is one to avoid making a fuss until he learns that his wife was found dead on the veldt. Tessa has been murdered at a crossroads along with her Kenyan driver. Her colleague doctor Arnold Bluhm (Hubert Koundé) is initially suspected of her murder but is later found to have been murdered on the same day as Tessa. Various rumours abound that the two were having an affair; however, it is later revealed that Bluhm is in fact gay.
As the mystery surrounding his wife's death unfolds, Justin is radicalised in his determination to get to the bottom of his wife's murder. He soon runs up against a drug corporation that is using Kenya's population for fraudulent testing of a tuberculosis drug ("dypraxa") with known harmful side effects and disregards the well-being of its poor African test subjects.
Danny Huston plays Sandy Woodrow, the British High Commissioner on the scene. Bill Nighy is Sir Bernard Pellegrin, head of the Africa Desk at the Foreign Office and thus Justin and Sandy's boss. After finding out the truth about what happened to Tessa, Justin was killed at the place where she died.
Justin's gentle but diligent attention to his plants is a recurring background theme, from which image the film's title is derived.
[edit] Cast
- Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle
- Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle
- Danny Huston as Sandy Woodrow
- Hubert Koundé as Arnold Bluhm
- Archie Panjabi as Ghita Pearson
- Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin
- Gerard McSorley as Sir Kenneth Curtis
- Pete Postlethwaite as Dr. Lorbeer
[edit] Reception
[edit] Box office
The film grossed $33,579,797 in North America and $48,886,873 in other territories, totaling $82,466,670 worldwide.[1][edit] Critical response
Reviews have generally been very positive. On the film aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes reported that 83% of 181 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it got a rating average of 7.6 out of 10.[2] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "one of the year's best films."[3] However, Michael Atkinson of The Village Voice criticized the film as "a cannonballing mélange of hack-cuts, impressionistic close-ups, and tropical swelter."[4] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe said the film diminishes "the real urgency of the West's humanitarian disconnect from Africa. If it sends audiences home to log on to the Amnesty International website, terrific – but that still doesn't make it a very good movie."[5][edit] Awards
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and Best Supporting Actress (Weisz). Weisz won both an Oscar and Golden Globe for her performance. The film was also nominated for two other Golden Globe Awards: Best Motion Picture (Drama), and Best Director. Additionally, Weisz won the 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.The film was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. It also won the award for Best Editing.
The film won the award for Best Film at the London Critics Circle Film Awards, British Independent Film Awards, and Evening Standard British Film Awards. The film also received the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards.
[edit] Author's dedication and afterword
John le Carré, in his original novel, provided a dedication and also a personal afterword. Both the dedication and part of the afterword (amended) are reproduced in the closing credits of the film. The first states: "This film is dedicated to Yvette Pierpaoli and all other aid workers who lived and died giving a damn". The latter continues (in the next credit): "Nobody in this story, and no outfit or corporation, thank God, is based upon an actual person or outfit in the real world, but I can tell you this, as my journey through the pharmaceutical jungle progressed, I came to realize that, by comparison with the reality, my story was as tame as a holiday postcard". The text appears over John le Carré's name.[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "The Constant Gardener (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=constantgardener.htm. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ "The Constant Gardener (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/constant_gardener/. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (1 September 2005). "The Constant Gardener review". Chicago Sun-Times. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050901/REVIEWS/50826001/1023. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ Atkinson, Michael (23 August 2005). "Cold Comfort Pharm". The Village Voice. http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-08-23/film/cold-comfort-pharm/. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
- ^ Burr, Ty (31 August 2005). "'Gardener' settles for familiar ground". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=7872. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
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