Agnes (2016)

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Movie
Original title Agnes
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Johannes Schmid
script Nora Lämmermann ,
Johannes Schmid
production Philipp Budweg ,
Thomas Blieninger ,
Johannes Schmid (Favorite Film GmbH)
music Michael Heilrath ,
Anna Ternheim
camera Michael Bertl
cut Henk Drees
occupation

Agnes is a German movie from 2016 based on the novel of the same name by Peter Stamm . Directed by Johannes Schmid , the script is by Nora Lämmermann and Johannes Schmid. Stephan Kampwirth and Odine Johne can be seen in the main roles .

action

The 41-year-old non-fiction author Walter begins an affair with the much younger and aloof student Agnes. She persuades him to write a novel about her so that she can find out how her personality affects him. Fiction and reality soon blur: Agnes realizes that Walter embellishes her in the novel and glorifies the relationship between them; it increasingly behaves as Walter describes it in the story. When Agnes becomes pregnant, Walter reacts differently than Agnes had hoped, so she breaks up with him. After the miscarriage, they first come together again. When Agnes decides that the novel should end with her suicide, it remains unclear to the viewer whether her death from frostbite is only fictional or also in reality. In the end, Walter is alone again.

production

Staff and cast

Johannes Schmid directed, Nora Lämmermann and Johannes Schmid worked on the script. The film is based on the debut novel of the same name by the Swiss writer Peter Stamm, published in 1998 , which has been compulsory reading at high schools in Baden-Württemberg since 2013. According to his own statements, Schmid had been an avid reader of Stamm's novels for many years and secured the rights to Agnes in 2008 . Deviating from the novel in which the story takes place in Chicago, Schmid set the film in an abstract German city, which, according to him, made it easier to finance the film. With flashbacks and flashbacks and opposing courses of action, Schmid also goes beyond playing with reality and fiction in the novel. As a reason for these adaptations and thus for the deviations from the novel, Schmid stated that Stamm left a lot of room for interpretation in his book, avoided every superfluous word and condensed his story in order to create more space for the reader. For the film, however, the characters had to be made more concrete, since they are real people. The fact that the audience has to continue to interpret the events is due to the fact that the film does not tell any previous history of the characters or offers simple explanations for their behavior and this also makes it easier for the viewer to recognize himself in the characters.

The role of Agnes was cast by the actress Odine Johne .

Film music

The film music was created from songs by Anna Ternheim

For the film music, Schmid worked with the Swedish singer-songwriter Anna Ternheim , to whom the director, according to his own statements, felt as musically attracted as he did to Peter Stamm in literature. Ternheim had written several songs from which topics were developed, which Michael Heilrath , the composer who had also composed the film music for Schmid's previous films, processed.

publication

The film celebrated its world premiere on January 5, 2016 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival , and its German premiere on January 19, 2016 at the 37th Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival , where the leading actress Odine Johne was honored as the best young actress. The film was presented at the Berlinale in February 2016 . It was officially released in theaters on June 2, 2016.

reception

Age rating

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 12 because younger children could be emotionally overwhelmed by individual irritating images and dramatic, conflicting moments as well as by the often gloomy atmosphere. The release certificate states: The complex film, sometimes told in contradictions, is a challenge for young viewers.

Reviews

From the German Film and Media Review was Agnes with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The reasoning states: “This boy-meets-girl story is carefully staged, as are the scenes of physical love, in which an aesthetically demanding work is done with coverings so that they do not turn out voyeuristic. The camera and assembly are unobtrusive in spite of the clearly recognizable style will and have an excellent timing, which can come up with surprises in places, so knows how to profitably deviate from conventions. "

The reason for the award of Odine Johne as the best young actress with the Max Ophüls Prize states: "She manages to bring her figure to life in the fragile mystery between reality and fiction, with the strength of her permeable game."

Rüdiger Suchsland thinks that Odine Johne in the title role is of shimmering intensity, conciseness and not a moment without a secret and says about the character in the film: “From the beginning, Agnes in Johannes Schmid's film is surrounded by a breath of mystery. She seems to be quiet and profound, at the same time slightly autistic and not without inner compulsions - something out of date, a little but also not at all from this world, but then again determined and spontaneous. "

Oliver Stenzel from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten recognizes that Schmid's film adaptation focused on a very central motif of the novel by Peter Stamm: "In relationships, people change through the other person's gaze, sometimes adapting to their image." Stenzel continues : "The dense and ingeniously interlaced staging often leaves the viewer in the dark as to whether he is following Walter's fictional novel plot or the reality."

Anke Leweke from DLF Kultur calls the film an “idiosyncratic psychological thriller whose supposedly harmless images will haunt you for a long time”.    

Awards

Max Ophüls Prize 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Agnes . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 743 K).
  2. ↑ Christoph Schröder: 'Agnes'. I write you down in: DIE ZEIT, May 31, 2016.
  3. ↑ Frank Arnold: Interview with Johannes Schmid about his film 'Agnes' In: epd Film, June 3, 2016.
  4. ↑ Tangled Reality In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ Johannes Schmid in conversation with Katharina Dockhorn: A film as an experimental arrangement. Director Johannes Schmid about his new film 'Agnes' In: Neues Deutschland, 6 June 2016.
  6. ↑ Frank Arnold: Interview with Johannes Schmid about his film 'Agnes' In: epd Film, June 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ Agnes ( Memento from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: berlinale.de. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  8. ^ Reason for release for Agnes In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Agnes. Jury reasons: Predicate particularly valuable In: German film and media evaluation . Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  10. ↑ a b The Prize Winners 2016 ( Memento from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: max-ophuels-preis.de. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  11. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: Agnes In: Rolling Stone , June 2, 2016.
  12. ↑ Oliver Stenzel: In the eyes of the other In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, June 4, 2016.
  13. ↑ Anke Leweke: Psychological thriller that pursues you . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 1, 2016.