Shirley, Visions of Reality
On the basis of Edward Hopper's thirteen iconic paintings, Gustav Deutsch tells the fictive biography of the American actress SHIRLEY in a huge picture arc of architecturally reconstructed scenarios from the everyday life of the big city.
Directed by: Gustav Deutsch | AT 2013 | 92 min
Starring: Stephanie Cumming, Christoph Bach
Cinema is an alienated mise-en-space of the dreamy imagery of the American painter Edward Hopper from the perspective of the "American Dream" at the time of the Great Depression. Surreal, melancholic landscapes and sad genre images of the American soul. Using thirteen iconic paintings, the art project tells the fictive biography of the American actress "Shirley" in a huge picture arc of reconstructed scenarios from the everyday life of the big city.
"An impressive cinematic recreation of images and moods for Hopper cognoscenti, it more controversially puts the American realist's work in a social, political and cultural context. " The Hollywood Reporter