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" Nowhere Boy "

"Nowhere Boy" is a biopic of John Lennon - but who now expected, the wild early days of the Beatles in to see Hamburg, the peak of Beatlemania, or the imaging of Lennon's life as a solo artist on the side from Yoko Ono, is wrong. But this story is known, famous and infamous, so what should this film yet? Exactly. And if this story is not knows ... It gubt enough books and documentaries about it. So does not annoy with nagging.

The director Sam Taylor-Wood focuses in her debut film entirely on John Lennon's youth, his musical beginnings and his growing up under the influence of two contrasting mother figures.

Liverpool in the 50s: After the sudden death of her beloved uncle lives of the 15-year-old John Lennon ( Aaron Johnson ) alone in his strict Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas ). In this Situation of the funeral he met after ten years of his natural mother Julia (Anne-Marie Duff ) and learns that their lives not far away. Now the boy is at once between the happy, but unreliable Julia and her conservative older sister. Youthful folly, the difficult family constellation and the emerging love of music dominated by John's life. The music-loving Julia introduces her son to the exciting world of rock and roll and brings with him the banjo games. For a long time keeps the teenager back to the question of why his mother left him just as a five-year-old and ten years no longer let him know - but then he calls Julia a statement ...

The script for "Nowhere Boy" is from Matt Greenhalgh , already the script for " Control "(the biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis) delivers, and is based on the novel " Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon ", in the conflicted Lennon's half sister Julia Baird on family relationships at home Lennon and report to John's early fascination for rock and roll. director Sam Taylor-Wood, the previously Speeches as a photographer himself talked about, explored the origin of the musical talent of the singer and is the teenage John Lennon is at the mercy of two sisters who feel both as his mother, but load with its long-standing rivalry between the mind of the self-reassuring boys. While the film beginning gets a little colorless, the director manages with increasing maturity, the flair of the 50s and the vitality and zeal to conjure up the teenager and a little more wit and drive to the - to bring story - a great finale tapering.

The straight-classical production uses common conventions of the coming-of-age drama and can at times feel bear, a TV production in front of him. But the performances lift the level and in any case justify a theatrical release. Aaron Johnson, in particular, gained through the role of " Kick-Ass " in the eponymous superhero film fame is, here is its adaptability to the test and embodies John Lennon as an energetic, never a spell awkward teenager, his frustration with the difficult family relationships and the death of his beloved uncle is eating into. Johnson is able to give the young Lennon the special aura and flamboyance of the late Beatles member and the mannerisms and to have characteristics of the singer in its early days included in his presentation.

Anne-Marie Duff ("The Last Station ") and Kristin Scott Thomas (" such dear for many years I up ") likewise prove to be an excellent choice for such contrasting sisters. While Duff plays the happiness and simultaneous discontinuity of the overtaxed natural mother, it is Scott Thomas can always, in brief moments, the love the strict and not very emotional Mimi to make light of her nephew while still maintaining the sub-cooled type of petty bourgeois-pedantic aunt. All three main actors emphasize in particular in the dramatic finale of the film, which revealed the family disputes and difficulties, and Johns fragmentary childhood memories are put together, you get out.

Conclusion: After a somewhat by any initial "Nowhere Boy" its course, and moves toward a tragic finale of family revelations, in which the three Main characters play out their full abilities. Sam Taylor-Wood's film debut is a nice, accurate Helping musicians on the web teenage days, and John Lennon's artistic beginnings.

By Ulf Lepelmeier and amandoloss