Eternal youth

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Movie
German title Eternal youth
Original title Youth
Country of production Italy , France , Switzerland , Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Paolo Sorrentino
script Paolo Sorrentino
production Nicola Giuliano ,
Francesca Cima ,
Carlotta Calori
music David Lang
camera Luca Bigazzi
cut Cristiano Travaglioli
occupation
Director and actor at the Cannes Film Festival

Eternal youth (Original title: Youth ) is a tragic comedy by Paolo Sorrentino from 2015 . The film premiered on May 20, 2015 at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival . It had its German premiere on September 25 at the Cologne Conference , and it was shown in German cinemas on November 26, 2015. It is the second film that Sorrentino has made in English.

action

Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle are old friends who spend their holidays in an elegant sanatorium in the Swiss Alps . Their ideas about how they would like to shape their life in old age couldn't be more contradicting. The formerly celebrated composer and conductor Fred lives in seclusion and has ended his musical career. The still successful director Mick, on the other hand, is in the process of making one last film with his long-time muse Brenda Morell. When an envoy from Buckingham Palace sends Fred the Queen's ardent wish that he conduct his "Simple Songs" in London, he is not impressed and he refuses. His daughter and manager Lena is anything but happy with this. But the composer sticks to it - he prefers to relax with his friend Mick and the actor Jimmy, to philosophize about life, to watch the other guests and to comment on their idiosyncrasies. After meeting Brenda, who makes it clear to him that his time is over, Mick jumps from the balcony. Fred, however, still decides to appear in front of the Queen. A whole series of largely independent stories are told in parallel.

Dreams and wishes in the film

The following dreams and wishes of the protagonists are faded into the plot of the film:

  • Fred crosses St. Mark's Square in Venice on a footbridge at Aqua alta . Halfway through, a beautiful woman comes towards him. When the water rises, he drowns.
  • Fred's daughter is stretched out the man. In her dream, the competitor appears as a star in a brightly colored music video .
  • Retreating to the edge of the forest near the hotel, Fred directs a herd of cows with cowbells.
  • When Mick brought the co-authors of his script to the train station, all of the leading actresses in his films appeared to him in the appropriate costumes on a mountain meadow.
  • Another scene shows Jimmy disguised as Adolf Hitler.

background

Locations

criticism

Wolfgang Höbel described the film on Spiegel Online as a “machismo fantasy” . The story is "as thin as the Swiss mountain air". The power of the film arises not from the “always carefully selected, tasteful arrangements by the director, but from the art of the actors”.

For Jan Schulz-Ojala from Tagesspiegel , Eternal Youth is a “cinematic masterpiece”. He criticizes the choice of the German film title, in the original “Youth”; the German distributor had "sanded the clear edge of the original title".

Andreas Kilb wrote “Pensionerfilm” and “Old cinema for old eyes” about Sorrentino's work in the FAZ . After Il divo , Cheyenne and especially La grande bellezza, the director could be considered a blender. That is over. Apparently he “had to climb to a height of three thousand meters to find something there that his films did not have before. Now he has it. Depth."

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Eternal Youth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 869 K).
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Old men erotic with Caine and Keitel: The libido dies last . Spiegel Online from November 24, 2015, accessed on November 25, 2015
  3. ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: The unfinished . In: Der Tagesspiegel online from November 22, 2015, accessed on November 25, 2015
  4. ↑ Andreas Kilb: The survivors of the magic mountain send their regards . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of November 26, 2015, p. 11 ( online , November 27, 2015, accessed December 14, 2015)