Töchter des Himmels

Originaltitel: The Joy Luck Club

1993
12
2 Std. 19 Min.

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Die Lebensgeschichten von vier asiatischen Frauen und ihren Töchtern reflektieren einander und hängen miteinander zusammen.Die Lebensgeschichten von vier asiatischen Frauen und ihren Töchtern reflektieren einander und hängen miteinander zusammen.Die Lebensgeschichten von vier asiatischen Frauen und ihren Töchtern reflektieren einander und hängen miteinander zusammen.

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7,7/10

18.790

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Nominiert für 1 BAFTA Award
- 4 Gewinne & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
In a 2018 NPR interview, executive producer Janet Yang recalled that director Wayne Wang (who she said usually had "the most lovely personality") lost his temper in a marketing meeting because the studio had presented him with the choices for posters to advertise the movie, and all of the options avoided showing the face of an Asian person. Either the designs were very abstract (for example, a decorative woodcut) or they were photos of the actresses' backs.

Patzer
In the second chess game that Waverley plays as a child with the boy the chess board and the positions of the pieces are clearly shown on the screen. The boy moves his queen. Waverley makes a move and the boy responds with a move in which he captures a pawn and he says "check". The only possible move that the boy could have made at this point which would have resulted in an utterance of any kind would have been "checkmate" - Black queen supported by black bishop takes white pawn, Mate. After this Waverley makes another move which would have been impossible under the rules of the game because the game would have been over on black's last move.

Zitate
Suyuan: That bad crab, only you tried to take it. Everybody else want best quality. You, your thinking different. Waverly took best-quality crab. You took worst, because you have best-quality heart. You have style no one can teach. Must be born this way. I see you.

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: True Romance/The Ballad of Little Jo/Kalifornia/The Joy Luck Club/The Real McCoy (1993)

Soundtracks
I Enjoy Being A Girl
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Courtesy of Williamson Music

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9/10

affecting

It's surprising they managed to make a movie out of The Joy Luck Club, which was, after all, a series of anecdotes by 8 different people. But somehow they did it, seamless weaving in and out of the characters' reminiscences.

Joy Luck Club could reasonably be described as a chick flick - it is, after all, a film about a bunch of women and their feelings - but that would be a disservice. "Chick flick" has become a somewhat derogatory term, partially because it was a term created by guys who find women and their feelings annoying, but to a great extent because most movies in this class are shoddy pieces of tripe like "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." If movies of women and their feelings were all this intelligent, insightful and affecting I doubt anyone would have even coined the term "chick flick." This is a movie of honest emotion that leaves you with a sense of fulfillment, a rebuke to all those manufactured, syrupy women's movies that Hollywood churns out. Highly, highly, HIGHLY recommended.