Evelyn (2018 film)
{{short description|2018 documentary film}}
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| director = {{ubl|Orlando von Einsiedel}}
| producer = Joanna Natasegara
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| starring = {{ubl|Orlando von Einsiedel}}
| narrator =
| music = Patrick Jonsson
| cinematography = Franklin Dow
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| studio = {{ubl|Grain Media|Violet Films|BBC Films|British Film Institute|The Bertha Foundation}}
| distributor = Netflix
| released = {{Film date|2018|10|11|London Film Festival|2019|09|10|df=y}}
| runtime = 96 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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Evelyn is a 2018 documentary film directed by and starring Orlando von Einsiedel. The premise revolves around Orlando's own family dealing with the effects of a suicide that took place 13 years earlier by Orlando's brother Evelyn, by taking a series of long walks visiting landscapes Evelyn liked to walk when he was alive.{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/26/evelyn-review-moving-documentary-on-a-familys-loss |title=Evelyn review – moving documentary on a family's loss |accessdate=2019-08-27 |website=The Guardian |date=26 October 2018 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/evelyn-review-orlando-von-einsiedel-documentary-1202021577/ |title='Evelyn' Review: A Raw and Profoundly Moving Portrait of Living with Suicide |accessdate=2019-08-27 |website=Indie Wire |date=17 November 2018 }}
Evelyn premiered at the 2018 London Film Festival. A year later, it was released Netflix on 10 September 2019.
Cast
File:Orlando von Einsiedel 01.jpg in 2017]]
- Evelyn Einsiedel, posthumously
- Orlando von Einsiedel
- Gwendolyn (Gwennie) Einsiedel[https://www.distractify.com/p/evelyn-netflix-how-did-he-die Cast]
- Robin (Robbie) Einiedel
- Harriet Einsiedel (aka Beta)[http://www.martinanthonyfletcher.com/confronting-suicide-telegraph-magazine Telegraph magazine]
- Andreas von Einsiedel
- Johanna Thornycroft
- Leon Oldstrong
- Jack Binney
Camerawork and music
For large parts of the film, the camerawork appears to require an operator walking backwards. In fact the cameraman, Franklin Dow, had created a special camera rig that sat on his back with a stabilising mechanism. A screen in front allowed him to watch what was happening as the family/cast members walked behind chatting.[http://www.martinanthonyfletcher.com/confronting-suicide-telegraph-magazine Telegraph article]
The musical score was mostly composed by Patrick Jonsson who had previously collaborated with von Einsiedel on Virunga and The White Helmets.[https://www.air-edel.co.uk/records/evelyn/ Sound track from Evelyn] One song was contributed by Evelyn's sister Gwendolyn Einsiedel, a musician in her own right who remembers singing almost every day during the making of the film, though very little made it onto the final cut.
Release
Evelyn premiered at the 2018 London Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=https://grainmedia.co.uk/news/evelyn-to-premiere-at-2018-bfi-london-film-festival|title=Evelyn to Premiere at 2018 BFI London film festival}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2018/10/london-film-festival-2018-review-evelyn/|title = 2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Evelyn|date = 11 October 2018}} It screened on BBC Two on 18 May 2019[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005bpr BBC schedule 18 May 2019] and was released from 10 September 2019 on Netflix. Reviewers described the film as a raw, powerful look at a family trying to make sense of suicide.[https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/netflix-evelyn-documentary-review/ Daily Dot review] It was chosen as Best Documentary in the British Independent Film Awards of 2018.[https://www.bifa.film/film/evelyn/ BIFA 2018]
Outreach
Some reviewers have suggested that the film might be powerful enough to save the lives of those considering suicide. GQ pointed out that suicide is now the single biggest killer of young British men and suggested that Evelyn might help break the code of silence that tends to surround the subject.[https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/male-suicide-statisticsGQ review]{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The film's website provides support links to help services including The Samaritans and Calm and reproduces a poem from The Smoke Jumper by Nicholas Evans, best known as author of The Horse Whisperer.{{Cite web |url=https://www.evelynmovie.com/poem |title=Evelyn movie website |access-date=27 November 2020 |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118101729/https://www.evelynmovie.com/poem |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- https://www.evelynmovie.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225103005/https://www.evelynmovie.com/ |date=25 December 2020 }}
- {{Netflix title}}
- {{IMDb title|8793990}}
- {{Rotten Tomatoes|evelyn_2018}}
Category:2018 documentary films
Category:2010s English-language films
Category:British documentary films
Category:Documentary films about suicide
Category:English-language documentary films
Category:Films scored by Patrick Jonsson