Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002 1h 32m EN

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★6.9TMDB · 50🍅86%Rotten Tomatoes★7.1IMDB · 3,791

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Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Markku Peltola
(segment "Dogs Have No Hell")
Kati Outinen
(segment "Dogs Have No Hell")
Marko Haavisto
(segment "Dogs Have No Hell")
Ana Sofia Liaño
(segment "Lifeline")
Chloë Sevigny
(segment "Int. Trailer Night")
Charles Esten
Bill (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
Amber Tamblyn
Bill (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
Feng Yuanzheng
(segment "100 Flowers Hidden Deep")

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Víctor Erice, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders
Languages: German, Czech, Mandarin, Finnish, English, Spanish
Countries: China, Germany, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, Canada

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ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 6 languages: German, Czech, Mandarin, Finnish, English, Spanish.

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WORLD

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International production across 8 countries: China, Germany, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, Canada.

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RUNTIME

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Part of the "Ten Minutes Older... (Collection)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Wim Wenders, shot by Phedon Papamichael. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Paul Englishby. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Joe Bini shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Markku Peltola and Kati Outinen and Marko Haavisto carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Wim Wenders directs. Phedon Papamichael behind the camera. Paul Englishby scores. Joe Bini cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in China, Germany, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, Canada. Dialogue in German, Czech, Mandarin, Finnish, English, Spanish.

Trivia

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1Released 24 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 6 languages: German, Czech, Mandarin, Finnish, English, Spanish.
3International production across 8 countries: China, Germany, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, Canada.
4Part of the "Ten Minutes Older... (Collection)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Wim Wenders, shot by Phedon Papamichael. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Paul Englishby. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Joe Bini shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Markku Peltola and Kati Outinen and Marko Haavisto carry the top of the cast.
9IMDB entry: tt0304808 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael
Original score: Paul Englishby
Editing: Joe Bini
Production design: Cao Juiping
Runtime: 92 min · 1h 32m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes: 86% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 3,791 votes

Awards

1 nomination total

Part of

Ten Minutes Older... (Collection)

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Wim Wenders

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CRCulver2018-09-08
★ 5/10
<i>Ten Minutes Older</i> “The Trumpet” is a compilation of seven ten-minute films by various noted directors that all deal with the passing of time. This is one of such two 2002 projects produced by Nicholas McClintock, the other is subtitled "The Cello". In Aki Kaurismäki's "Dogs Have No Hell", Markku Peltola is released from jail and has ten minutes to convince Kati Outinen to marry him and board a train to Siberia. There's little explanation of who these people are, why Peltola was in jail or why they must go to Siberia, but the film does compress the Finnish director's style into a short span with its deadpan humour, stony facial expressions and even a performance by a morose rock band. As Víctor Erice's "Lifeline" begins, a baby's swaddling clothes are stained with blood because of a rupture. The film tracks the suspenseful minutes between the accident and the time that the large household discovers it and saves the child. The film is set in a Spanish village in 1940 and the silence (there's only a couple of lines of dialogue at the end) and clockwork-like buzz of rural life (reaping grain, sewing with a machine) make a real impression over the other films here. The main character of Jim Jarmusch's "Int. Trailer Night" is an actress (Chloe Sevigny) on a ten-minute break in her trailer while shooting a film. Though these ten minutes are all the time she gets to herself the whole day, her break is constantly interrupted by costume and mic checks and ultimately her dinner is delivered too late for her to eat it. Jarmusch is apparently showing us that a star's life is not an easy one, though considering the enormous salaries that these professionals command, it's hard to really sympathize. Wim Wender's "Ten Minutes to Trona" depicts an American businessman's desperate attempt to reach a hospital after unknowingly ingesting a plate of cookies dosed with some kind of hallucinogen. As he speeds down a desert road, various camera effects represent his warped perceptions, which range from horrible visions to moments of idyllic beauty. There's such a realism to this that one wonders if it is based on a personal experience by Wenders. Werner Herzog and Spike Lee chose to make short documentaries. Herzog's "Ten Thousand Years Older" visits a Amazonian tribe that had been contacted by the outside world in 1981 (thus being pulled millennia into the future in the blink of an eye). The first portion of the film consists of footage from the 1981 contact. In the years since, much of the tribe had been decimated by diseases to which they had no resistance, but Herzog captures an interview with two of the men two decades on. Spike Lee's contribution "We Wuz Robbed" deals with the 2000 presidential election and Al Gore's loss to George Bush in Florida. Lee interviews Democrat strategists about the agonizing wait for the figures to come in. As outraged as I was at the outcome of this election, I find this film to have little to no redeeming value and regularly skip it on rewatchings. Finally, Chen Kaige's "100 Flowers Hidden Deep" deals with the Chinese state's destruction of Beijing's traditional neighbourhoods in order to build skyscapers. A middle-aged Beijing man asks a removals team to help him take his things from his old home to his newly built highrise. When they arrive, they find only a vacant lot and it turns out the local man is quite mad. Through a computer-graphics overlay, Chen shows us what lovely buildings and streets were in this empty plot of land before the authorities demolished it all. In spite of the talent enlisted for this project, the films here are generally not very deep. I would say that only the Herzog, Erice and Chen films are memorable, but it's hard to be enthusiastic even about these. I think it would appeal mainly to completists of one or more of the directors represented here, but it's hard to recommend it to more casual fans.

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