LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
de Im neuen Psychothriller von Edgar Wright träumt sich Eloise in das glitzernde
London der Swinging Sixties und trifft dort auf die geheimnisvolle Sandy. Die Londoner Nächte sind aufregend, faszinierend
- und - lang... und langsam beginnen die Visionen Überhand zu nehmen.
en In this psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
en In this psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
de Die junge Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) stammt vom Land und ist
gerade nach London gezogen, wo sie ihre große Leidenschaft für Modedesign ausleben will. Ausgefallene Stoffe, klassische Schnitte
oder mutige Muster: Für die Modedesignstudentin ist Kleidung pure Lust, denn sie hat sich schon immer ihre eigenen Klamotten
angefertigt. Während aber ihre Mitstudierenden ausgelassen Party machen, träumt sich die von ihrer neuen Umgebung überforderte
Eloise ins London der 1960er-Jahre. In der Gestalt der jungen Sandy (Anya Taylor-Joy) zieht sie durchs Londoner Café de Paris
und andere Clubs, die ihr das Gefühl von Sicherheit geben. Sie führt ein Parallelleben, in dem sie eines Tages den verführerischen
Manager Jack (Matt Smith) trifft und ist fasziniert von seiner geheimnisvollen Aura. Doch die beschwingten, romantisierten
Sechziger sind tatsächlich längst nicht so schön und frei, wie es zuerst den Anschein hat...
en If you could go back in time, would you? The longing to make Last Night in Soho stems from my own desire to make a film about an area of Central London that has become my adopted home for the past twenty-five years. I have haunted it for most of my adult life; be it working, socialising, and even living in this part of the metropolis, all the while soaking up the centuries of history it is imbued with. My film is a love letter in some ways. Not just to this part of the world, but to the legendary decade, the 1960s, in which London’s Soho district was the centre of the universe. But there’s also an eternal tug of war within me, where the yearning to travel back and luxuriate in the glamour of the 1960s is tempered with the nagging fear of the darkness lurking just behind the rose tinted spectacles. Nostalgia can be dangerous; if you spend too long looking back, you could miss the danger right in front of you. Last Night in Soho is a cautionary tale for dreamers like myself who want to turn back the clock to a time, paradoxically, they themselves never lived in. The question should really be, if you could do go back in time, should you?
en If you could go back in time, would you? The longing to make Last Night in Soho stems from my own desire to make a film about an area of Central London that has become my adopted home for the past twenty-five years. I have haunted it for most of my adult life; be it working, socialising, and even living in this part of the metropolis, all the while soaking up the centuries of history it is imbued with. My film is a love letter in some ways. Not just to this part of the world, but to the legendary decade, the 1960s, in which London’s Soho district was the centre of the universe. But there’s also an eternal tug of war within me, where the yearning to travel back and luxuriate in the glamour of the 1960s is tempered with the nagging fear of the darkness lurking just behind the rose tinted spectacles. Nostalgia can be dangerous; if you spend too long looking back, you could miss the danger right in front of you. Last Night in Soho is a cautionary tale for dreamers like myself who want to turn back the clock to a time, paradoxically, they themselves never lived in. The question should really be, if you could do go back in time, should you?
