About a Girl (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | About a girl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mark Monheim |
| script | Mark Monheim, Martin Rehbock |
| production | Martin Roebuck |
| music | Sebastian pill |
| camera | Daniel Schönauer |
| cut | Stine Sonne Munch, Melanie Landa |
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About a Girl is a German tragic comedy by Mark Monheim (direction, screenplay) and Martin Rehbock (production, screenplay).
action
Charleen is 15 years old and has a soft spot for death. She only listens to music from deceased musicians, collects photographs of dead animals in an album and does an internship at the undertaker. In a rebellious mood, she decides one day to kill herself and gets into the bathtub with a hair dryer. The suicide attempt fails because her friend Isa calls at the crucial moment. Charleen wakes up again in the hospital and is suddenly the focus of attention - she just wanted to be quiet. Her mother Sabine, her father Jeff, who is separated from the family, Sabine's new boyfriend Volker, her beloved grandma Emmi, her friend Isa: Everyone asks questions, everyone is worried. In addition, Charleen has to undergo therapy with the bizarre psychotherapist Dr. Free up and then a woman from the social psychiatric service shows up and takes a close look at the family.
At the therapist's, Charleen meets her classmate Linus, who woos her with wit and persistence, although she describes him as a "stupid nerd". Little by little, a humorous friendship develops between the two and finally they even have a first kiss. But then Charleen's newfound courage to face life is put to the test: Linus backs down, Charleen and Isa argue violently and her beloved grandma Emmi dies. This decisive event reminds Charleen that life is a gift that cannot be thrown away. She is reconciled with Isa and kisses Linus a second time.
production
About a Girl was produced by Martin Rehbock (snack film). Uli Aselmann (die film GmbH) and Bayerischer Rundfunk acted as co-producers. The project was financially supported by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , the Filmförderungsanstalt and the German Filmförderfonds . The shooting took place from mid-July to the end of August 2013 in Bamberg , Fürth and Munich .
The world premiere took place at the end of September 2014 at the Festival do Rio (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival); The European premiere followed in October 2014 at the Rome International Film Festival and the German premiere at the 48th Hof International Film Festival . Since then, the film has been shown at many other national and international festivals and has received numerous awards, including three audience awards.
About a Girl started on August 6, 2015 in German cinemas, distributed by NFP * marketing and distribution. The film started in Poland on March 27, 2015. Since January 2016, the film has been available on DVD or via video-on-demand .
The first broadcast of a TV version shortened to 90 minutes on ARD was followed by around 4 million viewers in prime time on May 10, 2017.
background
The working title of the film was Charleen puts an end to it . The current title is based on the song of the same name by the band Nirvana , as the protagonist Charleen is a big Kurt Cobain fan.
About a Girl is the feature film debut by Mark Monheim, who is a graduate of the University of Television and Film Munich and received the First Steps Award 2008 for his graduation film At the age of sixteen I'm gone .
music
For the soundtrack to About a Girl, numerous songs were composed in collaboration with young German musicians. The film composer Sebastian Pille also acted as music supervisor, songwriter and produced the soundtrack album, the music producer Ralf Christian Mayer was responsible for the recordings in the Gismo7 studio in Motril, Spain . Participating bands and artists are: Angela Aux ( Florian Kreier ) from Munich, Cat Stash from Regensburg, Livy Pear from Berlin, the Monday Tramps from Munich, Nick & June from Nuremberg, AVEC (formerly NOrah) from Austria, Florian Ostertag from Stuttgart and the Berlin band Pictures.
The half-hour documentary Every Day a Song about the soundtrack recordings was created in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk. It was broadcast as Kino Kino Extra on Bavarian TV when it opened in theaters in August 2015 .
reception
About a Girl was celebrated by the audience at the German premiere in Hof. All three performances were sold out. The film was also received positively by the press.
Die Welt said About a Girl was "a film of bad, quick-witted, morbid dialogues - which German cinema can rarely do". The film service rated the tragicomedy as a “furious adolescence story that captivates with linguistic comedy, strange characters and sometimes monstrous slapstick and makes the characters plausible even in absurd moments” and praised the “excellent staging of a youthful search for identity”. Spiegel online called the filmic narrative "a search for the fault in the system" and analyzed "the suicide attempt fits into the life shown and yet falls out of it. It kind of makes sense. And then again not at all. It's disturbing. Therein lies the intelligence of this film. ”The Rolling Stone said“ the questions about the nature of friendship and love or the meaning of melancholy and death form the necessary counterbalance to the brash, to-the-point dialogues . They make this film a jewel of young German cinema. ”The Frankenpost also praised“ brilliant dialogues made of peppered squabbles, tests of trust and brittle emotional signals ”and stated“ a lot of joke flashes from all angles, but there is still room for tragic relining ”. Deutschlandradio Kultur emphasized the “pointed script” and said “the film owes its unusual speed primarily to the dialogues.” Friday judged “the film tells of growing up with beautiful boldness.” Unikat called the film “an ode to life with everyone its ups and downs. And as paradoxical as it may sound, it is also an ode to death, which is what makes life so valuable. " Tip magazine highlighted the acting performance of the leading actress:" Jasna Fritzi Bauer is already 25, but you buy one from the teen without any problems. Monheim said he asked Bauer if she still wanted to play a teen and she said, 'Not really, but the script is so awesome!' She was right. ”The Oberbayerische Volksblatt wrote on the subject of the film:“ Sounds depressing? On the contrary. Seldom has a film about suicide been so life-affirming! The dialogues are funny but never silly; cynical but never pejorative; light-footed, but never shallow. Nothing is kitschized here, but life is viewed mercilessly. "
The Italian online magazine beSpoke wrote after the European premiere at the Rome International Film Festival “the real standing ovation was for“ About a Girl ”by the German director Mark Monheim: protagonist is the fifteen-year-old Charleen, who is going through an adolescent crisis , and from a failed suicide attempt she finds the meaning of a life that is not always lively but not even perpetually dark. Amazing screenplay, incredible the co-protagonists, starting from the headshrinker who lights up the scene with a true smart irony and makes us want to lie down on that couch. "The American magazine Stage Buddy wrote" the movie is intelligent and unconventional, sprinkled with a touch of whimsy à la Amelie and reminiscent of American independent films such as Garden State and Juno. The charismatic Bauer imbues the part with wit and humor. "
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , however, saw the film more critically and judged "the film shows what happens when a too good script holds a wild teen captive."
Awards
- Emder Screenplay Award 2013, Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney
- Nomination for the New German Cinema Award , Hof International Film Festival 2014
- Young Audience Award “Enfants Terribles”, Gijón International Film Festival 2014
- Bavarian Film Award 2014 for Jasna Fritzi Bauer as best young actress
- "Particularly valuable" rating from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW)
- Mention spéciale, Festival International Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne 2015
- LEO for the best film in the children's and youth film competition, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2015
- Bernhard Wicki Prize, Emden-Norderney International Film Festival 2015
- NDR film award for young talent, Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2015
- Nomination for the Creative Energy Award, Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney 2015
- ECFA Award (European Children's Film Association), LUCAS International Children's Film Festival 2015
- Prize of the student jury 10+, Kinofest Lünen 2015
- Nomination for the German Film Critics' Prize 2015 in the category Best Feature Film Debut
- Nomination for the German Audio Film Award 2016 in the cinema category for the audio description spoken by Katja Schild
Festivals
- Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brazil 2014
- Rome International Film Festival (Alice nella città), Italy 2014
- Hof International Film Festival 2014
- Gijón International Film Festival, Spain 2014
- Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize, Saarbrücken 2015
- International Children and Young People's Film Festival Malmö, Sweden 2015
- Cleveland International Film Festival, USA 2015
- Leeds Young Film Festival, UK 2015
- MOVIE THEATER! Festival of German Films New York, USA 2015
- Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Sweden 2015
- Dallas International Film Festival, USA 2015
- Filmfest UNG Kristiansand, Norway 2015
- Festival International Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne, St. Quentin, France 2015
- Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, USA 2015
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival, Schwerin 2015
- Audi Festival of German Films, Australia 2015
- Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Czech Republic 2015
- German Children's Media Festival Goldener Spatz, Erfurt / Gera 2015
- International film festival Emden-Norderney 2015
- Festival of German Films Madrid, Spain 2015
- Freiburg Film Festival 2015
- Five Lakes Festival 2015
- Film Art Weeks Munich 2015
- Jecheon International Music & Film Festival, South Korea 2015
- Carrousel international du film de Rimouski, Canada 2015
- BUSTER Copenhagen, Denmark 2015
- German Film Week Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015
- International Children's Film Festival LUCAS 2015
- Worth seeing Budapest Film Festival, Hungary 2015
- International Film Festival SCHLINGEL 2015
- Festival of German Films Paris, France 2015
- Cinemagic International Film & Television Festival Belfast, Northern Ireland 2015
- Comedy Film Festival Cluj, Romania 2015
- German Currents San Diego, USA 2015
- FILEM'ON - International Children's Film Festival Brussels, Belgium 2015
- MOMENT - Festival du cinéma en langue Allemand en Alsace, France 2015
- Kinofest Lünen 2015
- Festival of German Cinema, Beijing, Chengdu, Qingdao & Shenzhen, China 2015
- Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia 2015
- CINEPÄNZ Cologne Children's Film Festival 2015
- Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Finland 2015
Web links
- About a Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for About a Girl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 306 K).
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- ↑ “About a Girl” stands out from the private sector . In: quota meter . May 11, 2017 ( quotenmeter.de [accessed on May 16, 2017]).
- ↑ mark-monheim.de
- ↑ Charleen ends: A song like a big grin - BR.de
- ↑ One song every day ( Memento from August 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 28, 2015, accessed on August 8, 2015.
- ^ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Films in Hof: Best of Bratwurst, Cinema, Beer . October 29, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed December 9, 2019]).
- ↑ About A Girl. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Carolin Weidner: Thoughts of suicide among young people: "And suddenly you have a thousand problems" . In: Spiegel Online . August 6, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 9, 2019]).
- ↑ Rolling stone germany january 2016 by TigerRag - issuu. February 21, 2017, accessed December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Three women close to the limit. In: mobil.frankenpost.de. January 22, 2015, accessed December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ "About A Girl" | unique. Accessed December 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ A review of the 48th Hof Film Festival 2014. In: tip berlin. October 29, 2014, accessed December 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ "About a Girl". May 8, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .
- ^ Rome Film Festival: day two | Susanna Tanzi | beSpoke Magazine. January 22, 2015, accessed December 9, 2019 .
- ↑ About a Girl Review. Retrieved April 6, 2015, December 9, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Julia Dettke: "About a Girl" in the cinema: How it is with being dead. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 9, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2019 : "The film" About a Girl "shows what happens when a too good script holds a wild teen captive."
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