unterstützt von

English/with English subtitles
All languages
My location via GPS
Postcode
Filmwecker
Filmnotiz

Neue Notiz

Widows

Suddenly penniless, the widows of three criminals come together and become a professional gang. A tight and cleverly constructed heist thriller from Steven McQueen (12 YEARS A SLAVE) and Gillian Flynn (GONE GIRL).

More

When an armed robbery goes wrong and the criminals lose their life, their widows are trapped in a tight spot because of a gangster deal. The surviving women just have one option in the end: planning a robbery worth millions on their own. What sounds like a linear action thriller becomes far more in the hands of exceptional director Steve McQueen (12 YEARS A SLAVE). The Oscar winner never operated as closely to the mainstream as with WIDOWS, but he covers all the ground in an intentional and masterly way. He spins a visually and narratively refined story about grief and self-empowerment, patriarchal structures, and corrupt city politics with a complexity and emotional depth that isn‘t common in this genre in parallel with the entertaining heist plot. The aforementioned depth is also due to the incredible actors like Viola Davis in the lead role and Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Robert Duvall and Daniel Kaluuya as the brutal adversary. Even the small roles played by Lukas Haas and Jackie Weaver are excellently cast.

McQueen and co-writer Gillian Flynn, who used a British series form the 80s as a template, is made up of unexpected twists. It‘s especially interesting to see how their rather implausible premise is imbued with such truthfulness and power. The fact that the actual robbery only happens in the last third of the film and is relatively quick isn‘t a bother in the slightest.

Patrick Heidmann (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN)

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

USA 2018, 129 min
Language: English
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime Drama, Drama
Director: Steve McQueen
Author: Gillian Flynn, Lynda La Plante, Steve McQueen
DOP: Sean Bobbitt
Montage: Joe Walker
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall
FSK: 16
Release: 06.12.2018

Website
Rotten Tomatoes

Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles
English/with English subtitles
All languages

Keine Programmdaten vorhanden.

ALLE ANGABEN OHNE GEWÄHR.
Die Inhalte dieser Webseite dürfen nicht gehandelt oder weitergegeben werden. Jede Vervielfältigung, Veröffentlichung oder andere Nutzung dieser Inhalte ist verboten, soweit CINEMATIC BERLIN nicht ausdrücklich schriftlich ihr Einverständnis erklärt hat.