Archive of films Blue Lagoon / The Blue Lagoon
USA
1980, 104 min
Section:
Six Close Encounters
Year: 2017
The film I’ve chosen to show is The Blue Lagoon. I have seen this more times than I can count (though most of those times I was still in high school). What makes me come back to it isn’t only its romantic vision of an earthly paradise, but how it is also a metaphorical paradise, where young people learn about and experience love without any rules or restrictions from any larger society. It is naïve and pure by design — a rarity in cinema.
Boyd van Hoeij
Synopsis
As a professional film critic, I’m often asked what the best movie of all time is. My standard answer: “I hope I haven’t seen it yet because that would make my job depressing”. The film I’ve chosen to show is The Blue Lagoon, Randal Kleiser’s follow-up to his smash hit, Grease. I have seen this more times than I can count (though most of those times I was still in high school). It is not the most sophisticated, intellectually challenging or breathtakingly made film, though the music and cinematography are certainly swoon-worthy. What makes me come back to it isn’t only its romantic vision of an earthly paradise — with its sandy beaches and palm-tree silhouettes against the sunset — but how it is also a metaphorical paradise, where young people learn about and experience love without any rules or restrictions from any larger society. It is naïve and pure by design — a rarity in cinema.
Boyd van Hoeij
About the director
Randal Kleiser (b. 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) studied film at the University of Southern California. After years working in TV, he became a commercially successful director with his first two movies: the musical Grease (1978) and the romantic adventure based on De Vere Stacpoole’s 19th-century castaway novel The Blue Lagoon (1980). In his subsequent work as well he has sampled and combined a wide variety of popular genres with craft-like dexterity: a love story set in the Greek Isles (Summer Lovers, 1982), a humorous mosaic of tales set in small-town America (Grandview, U.S.A., 1984), science fiction (Flight of the Navigator, 1986), a sentimental comedy about a 31-year-old virgin (Getting It Right, 1989), a Jack London novel adaptation (White Fang, 1990), a fantasy comedy (Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, 1992), a mystery thriller (Shadow of a Doubt, 1998), an adventure romcom (Love Wrecked, 2005), and an adventure musical for the whole family (Red Riding Hood, 2006).
Contacts
Park Circus Group
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About the film
Color, DCP
Section: | Six Close Encounters |
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Director: | Randal Kleiser |
Screenplay: | Douglas Day Stewart podle románu / based on the novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole |
Dir. of Photography: | Nestor Almendros |
Music: | Basil Poledouris |
Editor: | Robert Gordon |
Art Director: | Jon Dowding |
Producer: | Randal Kleiser |
Production: | Columbia Pictures |
Cast: | Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels |
Sales: | Park Circus Group |
Guests
Boyd van Hoeij
Journalist