Southland Tales
| Southland Tales | |
| Realization | Richard Kelly |
|---|---|
| Main actors | Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) Seann William Scott Sarah Michelle Gellar Miranda Richardson Janeane Garofalo Mandy Moore Jill Ritchie Cheri Oteri Amy Poehler Kevin Smith |
| Scenario | Richard Kelly |
| Photography | Steven B. Post |
| Music | Moby , The Pixies |
| Production | Sean McKittrick Bo Hyde Kendall Morgan |
| Budget | 15 million |
| Output | Not distributed in France |
Southland Tales is a thriller to science fiction American of 2006 , written and directed by Richard Kelly , director of , and starring Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar. The film's action in 2008 in the city of Los Angeles , while the United States are experiencing a major crisis on the ecological, economic and social development. The film, whose shooting began on 15 August 2005 , required a budget of approximately 15 million U.S. dollars.
The story, heavily inspired by the world of Philip K. Dick , takes place in Los Angeles on 4 July 2008 (U.S. national holiday). After the discovery of a new source of energy derived from the oceans, Earth's rotation begins to slow and the mental stability of the inhabitants of the Earth starts to crumble. The planet can not avoid the impending tragedy, she falls into chaos and anarchy.
Southland Tales, in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival , was screened in the preview 21 May 2006. After this first public screening, the company Sony has asked the director to review the editing of the film before it is distributed in cinemas. The film was released in the United States November 16, 2007 and the United Kingdom December 7, 2007, he was not distributed in France.
Summary |
Addressing the shortage of fuels, a major American company is developing a generator of inexhaustible energy from a technology German which channels the flow of the ocean. This technology inexorably alters the rotation of the Earth , causing a rift in the space-time continuum that disrupts human behavior. An amnesiac actor ( The Rock ), an ex-porn star ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ), twin brothers, one senator and his team are particularly caught up in a struggle between the politico-military factions and neo-Marxist from Venice Beach.
Trivia
- In Southland Tales, Santarosa Boxer ( Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock ) wrote a film script - proving to be a true prediction of the Apocalypse - entitled The Power, whose protagonist is supposed to be interpreted by itself, is named Jericho Cane. Jericho Cane is actually a reference to the film End of Days by Peter Hyams in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays also the role of a character named Jericho Cane to save humanity from the end of time. In Southland Tales, the importance of Jericho Cane is the fact that it is basically a fictional character is materializing in the person of Boxer Santarosa.
Distribution
- The Rock : Jericho Cane / Boxer Santarosa
- Seann William Scott : Roland / Ronald Taverner
- Sarah Michelle Gellar : Krysta Now
- Kevin Smith : Simon Thiery
- Nora Dunn : Cindy Pinziki
- Janeane Garofalo : General Teena MacArthur
- Beth Grant : Dr. Inga Von Westphalen / Marion Card
- Wood Harris : Werner Dion / Dion Element
- Christophe Lambert : Walter Mung
- John Larroquette Vaughn Smallhouse
- Bai Ling : Serpentine
- Jon Lovitz : Officer Bart Bookman
- Mandy Moore : Madeline Frost Santarosa
- Holmes Osborne : Senator Bobby Frost
- Cheri Oteri : Zora Carmichaels
- Amy Poehler : Veronica Mung / Dream
- Lou Taylor Pucci : Martin Kefauver
- Miranda Richardson : Nana Mae Frost
- Jill Ritchie : Shoshana Cox
- Will Sasso : Fortunio Balducci
- Wallace Shawn : Baron von Westphalen
- Justin Timberlake : Private Pilot Abilene
- Joe Campana :
- Zelda Rubinstein :
- Sab Shimono :
- Robert Benz : Father Ronald
Comments
- Southland Tales has been presented in official selection in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
- The film was never released in French cinemas.
- The film was released in theaters has a different mount version of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. With an initial duration of 2:41, the final version lasts 2:24.
- The film is available on DVD and Blu-Ray since March 25, 2009. It does not include the original version screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival as implied rumor. The film is distributed by Wild Side External Links
- (En) page on the official website of the French distributor
- (En) Website
- (En / fr) Southland Tales on the Internet Movie Database - more complete version in English
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