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Swimming to Cambodia

  • 1987
  • R
  • 1 Std. 25 Min.
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Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuSpalding Gray discusses his participation in the film Killing Fields - Schreiendes Land (1984) and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.Spalding Gray discusses his participation in the film Killing Fields - Schreiendes Land (1984) and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.Spalding Gray discusses his participation in the film Killing Fields - Schreiendes Land (1984) and the background story about the troubles of Cambodia.

  • Regie
    • Jonathan Demme
  • Drehbuch
    • Spalding Gray
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Spalding Gray
    • Sam Waterston
    • Ira Wheeler
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    7,6/10
    2494
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    • Regie
      • Jonathan Demme
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      • Spalding Gray
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Spalding Gray
      • Sam Waterston
      • Ira Wheeler
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    • 68Metascore
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    • Auszeichnungen
      • 5 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Spalding Gray
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    • Additional Cast from 'The Killing Fields'
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    10mattbyrne69

    Monologue about filming 'The Killing Fields' reveals genius shock!

    Spalding's 'Swimming to Cambodia' defies the preconceptions often brought to a movie: we get to see one man at a desk, with a lamp and a glass of water, and a map of Cambodia with a pointer to help. And then Gray's amazing ability to hook the listener into his amazing free improvised anecdotes makes it worth a thousand blockbusters. Demme's film prior to this was 'Something Wild'... this is wilder and wittier. Do yourself a favour and watch. Spalding's tragic suicide last year brings a poignant edge to many of his existential observations, but this is uplifting, entertaining, funny and harrowing all in one. And it's a monologue. Sam Shephard once said it was impossible to compare anyone to Spalding, so unique was he. Here's the proof.
    10Norrin Radd

    WORTH HUNTING DOWN

    Spalding Gray is an amazing orator. They way he can interweave various story aspects into a narrative patchwork is riveting. As you can tell I'm a big fan of his work and this is probably his best. Directed by Jonathan Demme in a no frills to the bone style. The star of this concert isn't demme or gray, it's the elocution.
    10smragan

    The Ultimate Indie Film

    It doesn't get much lower-budget than this: A guy sitting at a desk on a stage with a notebook, a pointer, and a map of Cambodia on the wall behind him. And for an hour-and-a-half, he keeps you absolutely mesmerized, by doing little more than talking. The special lighting, cinematography, musical effects, and odd film inserts that Demme's production brings to Gray's monologue (which, like so many of the films I truly love, was performed on a stage before it was brought to the screen) work ever-so-slightly to enhance the performance at certain points, but by and large this is just Spalding Gray, a wonderful story-teller, doing his thing. In terms of bang for your production buck, Swimming to Cambodia has to be right up there with The Blair Witch Project. A great film.
    davemart

    The best monologue ever captured on film

    Spalding Gray calls his version of performance art a "talking cure." The facts, opinions, insights, fears and hopes drawn from the epiphany he received from his experiences in the Asian Rim shooting "The Killing Fields" and his education of the plight of the Cambodian people circa early to mid seventies is overwhelming. This is a story of the human condition as told by a master. He is Dr. Frankenstein creating the monster that is ourselves through a tapestry of wordplay that never seems overwrought or cumbersome in the slightest. This movie is one man reading from a standard notebook, behind a plain table accented with a glass of water and shadowed by a ceiling fan and selection of maps. Demme's use of lighting and Laurie Anderson's soundtrack provide all the dramatic power needed to sustain Gray as he literally helps us all better understand life, humanity and our responsibilities to each other while we spend time on this planet. Intense, funny, heartbreaking and invigorating; this movie inspires and changes all who watch it.
    10aculprit

    The best, never better

    Jonathan Demme is a genius, and if you doubt it, see this film. Who else could've made a man sitting at a table talking so riveting? Although Spalding is a great storyteller and great to see live, none of the other films of his monologues have ever touched this one, the first.

    See it and you'll never drink Singha again.

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      Gray refers to the Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran who survived the Khmer Rouge and ended up working for the New York Times. The year the present film was made, 1986, was the year that Pran received his U.S. citizenship. He passed away from cancer at the age of 65 in March, 2008.
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      Spalding Gray: Farewell, to the fantastic breakfasts, free every morning and there they were, waiting on you with the papaya, mango, and pineapple like I'd never tasted before. Farewell, to the Thai maids with the king-sized cotton sheets and the big king-sized beds. Farewell, to the fresh meat flown in from America, daily. Roast potatoes, green beans and roast lamb, at 110 degrees under a circus tent, according to British Equity. Farewell to the drivers with the tinted glasses and the Mercedes with the tinted windows. Farewell to the cakes, teas and ices every day exactly at four o'clock. Farewell to those beautiful smiling people. Farewell to that single, fresh rose in a vase on my bureau every day. And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask... I had an inkling, I had a flash... I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe...

    • Alternative Versionen
      A&E cuts out the part of the sex performer doing tricks with her vagina (including the banana hitting the wall, which Gray alludes to early in the act.) In addition, the scene uses different close-ups, and ends with "boobly oobly."
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Blind Date/Dolls/The Hanoi Hilton/Swimming to Cambodia (1987)

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      • April 1987 (Vereinigte Staaten)
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      • Englisch
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