Regie:
Arnaud DesplechinKamera:
Eric GautierMusik:
Howard ShoreBesetzung:
Summer Phoenix, Ian Holm, Fabrice Desplechin, Frances Barber, Emmanuelle Devos, Kika Markham, Anton Lesser, Josef Altin, Michael Müller, Paul Ritter (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Set in London at the end of the 19th century, the film tells the story of Esther Kahn (Phoenix), an introverted working class Jewish girl who has trouble fitting in with the rest of her East End family, of which all members work in the family sweatshop. Esther is slow and stubborn, she never has an opinion about anything, she never feels anything for anybody, she's a stone. Yet she forces herself to consider questions usually reserved for philosophers about the life, drems and her identity, but as hard as she tries to imitate others, Esther comes to realize that this isn't the way to become a person. Then, once in the theatre Esther "wakes up", she comes to life: because she doesn't watch the play like others do, she lives it. She decides to become an actress and to use other characters to discover who she truly is. Esther now begins to learn how to act and to live. And it is these lessons that, one evening, on stage, all of a sudden, make her reveal twenty years of suppressed life. (Verleiher-Text)
(mehr)Soundtracks
Esther Khan
Label: Naive
Jahr: 2000
Land: Frankreich
Format: CD
Länge: 41:21
| 1. | London, 1881 | Howard Shore | 03:35 |
| 2. | Vinegar, Daughter Of Wine | Howard Shore | 01:19 |
| 3. | I'm Frightened By The Street | Howard Shore | 01:30 |
| 4. | Sleepwalking | Howard Shore | 01:31 |
| 5. | Five In The Gods | Howard Shore | 01:03 |
| 6. | You Are Like A Diamond | Howard Shore | 01:58 |
| 7. | Match Factory | Howard Shore | 01:29 |
| 8. | Theater On The Strand | Howard Shore | 00:53 |
| 9. | A Child Costs One Pound | Howard Shore | 00:47 |
| 10. | The Wages Of Sin | Howard Shore | 01:00 |
| 11. | The Banks Of The Thames | Howard Shore | 00:39 |
| 12. | Nathan Quellen | Howard Shore | 01:19 |
| 13. | Lessons | Howard Shore | 00:54 |
| 14. | Becky | Howard Shore | 03:05 |
| 15. | A Mysterious Truth | Howard Shore | 00:34 |
| 16. | Reading Othello | Howard Shore | 01:38 |
| 17. | Philip Haygard | Howard Shore | 01:10 |
| 18. | A London Market | Howard Shore | 02:18 |
| 19. | Hedda Gabler | Howard Shore | 01:19 |
| 20. | The Broken Carafe | Howard Shore | 02:41 |
| 21. | The Note Had Been Struck | Howard Shore | 01:04 |
| 22. | Curtain Call Source Music... | Howard Shore | 03:04 |
| 23. | The Kiss & The Ballroom | Howard Shore | 02:23 |
| 24. | Italian Dance | Howard Shore | 02:20 |
| 25. | Yiddish Theater | Howard Shore | 01:48 |