Garden State

Garden State is a film written, carried out and interpreted by Zach Braff with Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard, left in 2004.

Synopsis

Andrew Largeman, in the score, leads a peaceful life to Los Angeles where it tests, without too much success, to become actor. It is completely struck by the quantity of drugs which it takes.

It returns in its birthplace in the New Jersey to bury his paraplegic mother . It finds there his former friends whom it left nine years before. It meets also Samantha, epileptic, strange and beautiful, of which it goes, gradually to fall in love.

Comments

If the history of this film is particularly simple, it is not the same for its realization, which accumulates a number impressing of small details which make film complex and rich. It is filled of anecdotes on various subjects, the characters approach various topics as drug, work, the relation with the others, the professional success. The plans used are often aligned on the characters, one finds various plans using of the axes of symmetry, like the reflection of Andrew in front of its cupboard with ice at the beginning of film, where well separation with the airport centered on the staircase whose field of camera is bordered by the two escalators of each with dimensions.

Data sheet

  • Title: Garden State
  • original Title: Garden State
  • Realization: Zach Braff
  • Scenario: Zach Braff
  • Production: daN Halsted, Richard Klubeck and Pamela Abdy
  • Music: Chad Fischer and Alexi Murdoch
  • Photography: Lawrence Sher
  • Assembly: Myron I. Kerstein
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Formats: Colors - 2,35:1 - Dolby DIGITAL - 35mm
  • Kind: Dramatic comedy
  • Lasted: 109 minutes (1. 49)
  • Comings out date: July 28th 2004 (the USA), April 20th 2005 (France)

Distribution

Around film

  • “ Garden State ” is the nickname of the State of the New Jersey, where is held film.
  • Of the sentences is marked in Klingon, a language created for the series and films Star Trek .
  • the characters speak about Aldous Huxley (by making an error on its name, it is named Aldous Huxtable , Huxtable being the patronym of the characters of the Cosby Show ) and about its book Brave New World .
  • On several occasions in the French version of “ Garden State ”, one can notice references to Star Wars in the mouth of Natalie Portman (Padmé Amidala in episodes I, II and III of the saga): " I reload my batteries, I am a droïde" or " It is the side clair". These winks are not present in the original version…

Band-original

  • Don' T Panic grass , interpreted by Coldplay
  • Caring is creepy , interpreted by The Shins
  • In the waiting line , interpreted by Zero 7
  • New slang , interpreted by The Shins
  • I just don' T think I' L ever get over you , interpreted by Hake Hay
  • Blue eyes , interpreted by Cary Brothers
  • Fair , interpreted by Remy Zero
  • One off thesis things first , interpreted by Nick Drake
  • Lebanese Blonde , interpreted by Thievery Corporation
  • The only living room servant boy in New York , interpreted by Simon & Garfunkel
  • Iron and Wine', interpreted by Postal The Service
  • Let go , interpreted by Frou Frou
  • Winding road , interpreted by Bonnie Sommerville

Cary Brothers, Remy Zero and Coldplay are also present in The Last KIS, another film with Zach Braff with the poster.

See too

  • Official site
  • Blog de Zach Braff

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