Shermans Feldzug
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Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
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- DavidBunnyDadvor 2 TagenI can think of no film more ahead of its time than Sherman's March. Take a good look at the current ``golden age of documentaries'' and one sees so much of the over-sharing, naval-gazing minutia of Ross McElwee's odd 1985 opus. McElwee sets out to trace the path of William Tecumseh Sherman's bloody march of retribution through Georgia and the Carolinas at the end of the Civil War -- only he can't stop getting sidetracked by the dreary details of his failed love life. What begins as an exploration of the nation's troubled history turns into an examination of one man's no-less-tortured romantic history. The juxtaposition proves eerily effective, even if it's never entirely clear that McElwee planned it that way. This guy can't seem to meet a woman without developing some sort of crush, and there's a slightly creepy quality to that, but it's redeemed when we actually meet the women in his life, a charming collection of latter-day Southern belles who run the gamut from wise to endearingly daffy, including one who's determined to meet Burt Reynolds and make him fall in love with her (Reynolds even briefly turns up in this film, shooting one of his dumb car chase movies). It's unclear how much of Sherman's March is played for laughs. Its tone is elegiac, but humor and sadness mix in equal measure to McElwee's deadpan delivery of lines like: ``Sherman aside, I'm disconcerted to find myself in competition with the likes of Burt Reynolds. A sort of creeping, psycho-sexual despair begins to overtake me.'' Novelistic in its rambling musings and unhurried tempo, this is not a movie that will keep you on the edge of your seat, but one you sink into like a warm bath. It feels lived and lived in. The film's true achievement, though, can only be appreciated in the context of its time. Like the far more celebrated gem My Dinner with Andre, Sherman's March was a breath of fresh air in the oppressively sterile pop culture landscape of the 1980s. It resembled real life and not the silly world of John Hughes comedies and deafening, deadening action films. More crucially, it gave its audience credit for intelligence. No one had seen anything like it. I think it's still pretty compelling 40 years on.
- Mister Arn16. März 2026In “Sherman’s March,” the filmmaker himself is the subject, and the lack of structure becomes the story. There’s an honesty here that’s rare. It leaves in the awkward pauses, the missed signals, the self-awareness that arrives too late. It’s not flattering, and that’s the point. If you need a clear story, it might not work for you. It holds up not because it’s polished, but because it’s honest.
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Shermans Feldzug wurde am 13. November 1985 veröffentlicht.
Regie in Shermans Feldzug führte(n) Ross McElwee.
Shermans Feldzug hat eine Spielzeit von 2 Std., 38 Min..
Shermans Feldzug wurde produziert von Ross McElwee.
Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
Die Hauptcharaktere in Shermans Feldzug sind Self (Ross McElwee), Self (Dede McElwee), Self (Patricia Rendleman).
Shermans Feldzug ist bewertet mit Not Rated.
Shermans Feldzug ist eine Dokumentarfilm, Biography, Komödie Film.
Shermans Feldzug hat eine Benutzerbewertung von 8.4 von 10.
Shermans Feldzug hatte ein Budget von 75.000 $.