2024-02-23 21:32:00
What’s at the film festival in Cannes would have been unthinkable Berlin System: Guests of honor at the film premieres walk the red carpet in sneakers and knitted sweaters.
“In Germany they unabashedly go for the baggy look,” she sighed Berliner Zeitung and sheepishly showed photos of German stars like Nina Hoss in a light blue sack coat or actors from the German competition film “Die” – with Ronald Zehrfeld in jeans and a sweatshirt.
The Golden Bear awards ceremony will take place today, Saturday evening. Maybe it will be even more elegant given the opportunity. A seven-member international jury led by the Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o (“Black Panther” and “We”) will decide the main prizes of the 74th Berlinale.
The director is also among the jurors Christian Petzoldthe Spanish extreme filmmaker Albert Serra or the Italian actress Jasmine Trinca. The latter was also seen on screen during the Berlinale. In the somewhat bumpy Netflix series “Supersex” (available from March 6th) she plays the tragic childhood friend of the Italian porn star Rocco Siffrediwho came personally to the premiere in Berlin – in a tailcoat and bow tie.
The cheek murder
Who is one of the favorites for this year’s Bear winners depends entirely on who you ask. The industry magazine “Screen international” traditionally publishes an international critics’ review in which grades are awarded for individual competition films. The Austrian contribution “Des Teufels Bad” by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala regarding an 18th century child murderer is at the top of this list of favorites.
The portrait of a single, older woman in Iran who one day decides to flirt with a new man is also very popular: If “My Favorite Cake” wins a prize, the filmmakers Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha will not be able to collect it, because they are not allowed to leave Iran.
Between everyday humor and the gravity of fate
The German competition entry “Die” is also in the top third of the critics’ favour Matthias Glasner. Supported by strong actors, Glasner builds a radical family constellation around a dying father, an incontinent mother and two hopeless adult children.
Son Tom, irresistibly (and sometimes vainly) played by Lars Eidinger, is a conductor and is studying a piece called “Die”. In between, he looks following his ex-girlfriend, who has just had a child, and keeps the sick mother and the demented father at arm’s length. The dance between career stress, complicated private life and a bad conscience is initially confidently balanced by Glasner and oscillates between everyday humor and the gravity of fate.
With your fist in the cherry pie
But then the mother tells us – the excellent one Corinna Harfouch – her son Tom, that she never loved him. Tom can only return the compliment and hits the cherry pie with his fist. From there it gets crazy. Glasner dedicates the third act of his overheated relationship diagnosis to the daughter of the house, played excessively by Lilith Stangenberg as an alcoholic named Ellen. Ellen is a dentist’s assistant and, when drunk, sometimes tears a hole in her lover’s teeth with pliers. Or vomits loudly at her brother’s concert premiere.
At this point Glasner’s drama derails into the grotesque and can no longer find its way back onto the path of serious storytelling. But you can’t blame him for at least one thing: Even at three hours long, “Die” never gets boring.
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