Tulip Fever

Tulip Fever is a 2017 historical romantic drama film directed by Justin Chadwick and written by Deborah Moggach and Tom Stoppard, adapted from Moggach's 1999 novel of the same name. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O'Connell, Holliday Grainger, Tom Hollander, Matthew Morrison, Kevin McKidd, Douglas Hodge, Joanna Scanlan, Zach Galifianakis, Judi Dench, and Christoph Waltz. The plot follows a 17th-century painter in Amsterdam who falls in love with a married woman whose portrait he has been commissioned to paint.

Tulip Fever
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJustin Chadwick
Produced by
Screenplay by
Based onTulip Fever
by Deborah Moggach
Starring
Music byDanny Elfman
CinematographyEigil Bryld
Edited byRick Russell
Production
company
Distributed byThe Weinstein Company[1]
Release date
  • August 13, 2017 (2017-08-13) (Soho House)
  • September 1, 2017 (2017-09-01) (United States)
Running time
107 minutes[2]
Country
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million[3]
Box office$9.2 million[2]

Filmed in the summer of 2014, Tulip Fever was delayed numerous times before finally being released in the United States on September 1, 2017. It received generally unfavorable reviews from critics and grossed $9 million worldwide against its $25 million budget. It is also the last film to be theatrically released by The Weinstein Company. A month later, after its release, a series of sexual assault cases were made against the founder, Harvey Weinstein, which led to the company's bankruptcy and demise.

Cast

Production

The film was originally planned to be made in 2004 on a $48 million budget, with Jude Law, Keira Knightley and Jim Broadbent as lead actors, John Madden as director and Steven Spielberg producing through DreamWorks. However, the production was halted days before it was scheduled to start filming as a result of changes in tax rules affecting film production in the UK.[5][6]

In 2014, Alison Owen partnered with Weinstein to restart the film after re-acquiring the rights to the film from Paramount Pictures.[7] In October 2013, Dane DeHaan was in talks to join the cast.[8] In February 2014, Christoph Waltz joined the cast.[9] In April 2014, Holliday Grainger, Cara Delevingne, and Jack O'Connell joined the cast.[10][11] In June 2014, Judi Dench was cast as the abbess of St. Ursula, who takes in orphaned children.[12] That same month Tom Hollander, Cressida Bonas, and David Harewood joined the cast.[13][14][15] In August 2014, Matthew Morrison joined.[16] Deborah Moggach, author of the novel, also appears in the film. Harvey Weinstein offered Harry Styles the role of Mattheus, but the singer turned it down due to scheduling conflicts, and Matthew Morrison was cast instead.[16][17]

The crew of Tulip Fever included cinematographer Eigil Bryld, production designer Simon Elliott, costume designer Michael O’Connor, hair and make-up designer Daniel Phillips and editor Rick Russell.[18] Tom Stoppard adapted the screenplay for the film.[19] The London-based Welsh portrait artist Jamie Routley did the original portraits that are seen in the film.[20] Danny Elfman composed the film's score.[21]

Filming took place at Cobham Hall in Gravesend, Kent where production transformed a wing at the school into a 17th-century Amsterdam Gracht. The waterway was also constructed from scratch, complete with barges and donkeys crossing humpback bridges. Additionally, the school's courtyard was used as the brewery yard in the story.[22] Other filming locations include Norwich Cathedral,[15] Holkham (in Norfolk),[23] Tilbury (in Essex), Kentwell Hall (in Suffolk), and at Pinewood Studios on various dates throughout June and July in 2014.[24] Filming also took place in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.

Release

Footage from the film was screened in May 2015 at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.[25] In December 2015, the first image of the film featuring Alicia Vikander and Christoph Waltz was released.[26] The film was originally scheduled to be released in November 2015, but was pushed back to July 15, 2016[27] and then delayed again until February 24, 2017.[28][29] It was then pulled from the schedule,[30] and later moved to August 25, 2017.[31] On August 16, 2017, the film was again delayed, this time being pushed back a week to September 1.[32] The film premiered on August 13, 2017, at London's Soho House.

Reception

Box office

Tulip Fever grossed $2.4 million in the United States and Canada and $6.7 million in other territories for a total of $9.2 million, against a production budget of $25 million.[2]

In North America, Tulip Fever was projected to gross $1–2 million from 765 theaters in its opening weekend.[33] It ended up debuting to $1.2 million ($1.5 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend) in what was the worst combined holiday weekend since 1998.[34] Despite adding seven theaters in its second weekend, the film dropped 75.4% to $285,300, the 37th biggest such drop in history.[35]

Critical response

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 10% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 4.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Tulip Fever is a lush, handsomely-mounted period piece undone by uninspired dialogue and excessive plotting."[36] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized average rating to reviews, the film has an average score of 38 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[37]

Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers gave the film 1 star out of 4, saying, "Tulip Fever, which was shot in 2014 but only hitting theaters now after years of recutting, retooling and release-date reshuffling, should have been allowed to die on the vine ... The film just sits there onscreen like a wilting flower with nothing to nourish it."[38]

In December 2018, it was released in several cinemas across the UK. It was reviewed by Adam White of The Daily Telegraph, as "handsome yet cripplingly dull Tulip Fever is every bit a throwback to that age of Chocolat and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin" and it suffers from "clumsy post-production work".[39] It was also the penultimate film to be produced by The Weinstein Company, prior to its closure on 16 July 2018.[40]

Year Award/Festival Category Nominee(s) Result
2017
 Fünf Seen Film Festival Audience Award
Justin Chadwick
 Nominated

Notes and references

Notes
  1. Paramount, which initially acquired rights to the film, were only given a studio credit in the final film.

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