Anhedonia - narcissism as an anesthetic
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| Original title | Anhedonia - narcissism as an anesthetic |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 80 minutes |
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| Director | Patrick Siegfried Zimmer , Robert Stadlober |
| script | Patrick Siegfried Zimmer |
| production | Klaus Maeck , Patrick Siegfried Zimmer, Robert Stadlober |
| music | Patrick Siegfried Zimmer |
| camera | Marius von Felbert, Julia Lohmann |
| cut | Habiba Laout |
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Robert Stadlober , Wieland Schönfelder , Flo Fernandez , Blixa Bargeld , Dirk von Lowtzow , Matthias Scheuring , Paula Kalenberg , Paul Pötsch | |
Anhedonia - Narcissism as Anesthesia is a German satirical science fiction feature film by Patrick Siegfried Zimmer with the participation of Robert Stadlober from 2015. After participating in festivals in October 2015, screenings took place under the distributor Interzone Pictures from March 31, 2016, mainly in arthouse cinemas instead of.
action
The film is set in 2020. According to the narrator, every day billions of people around the world are victims of the “ digital, media, narcissistic, hedonistic, careeristic and consumer-oriented overstimulation and suggestion by the establishment ”. Hundreds of millions of citizens of the western world are epidemically ill with anhedonia , the inability to feel joy, lust, love and fun. Two prototypes of this suffering are the inseparable " aristocratic sons " Franz and Fritz Freudenthal, who had to witness the staged death of their famous actor parents live in childhood and then grew up in a caring nudist sect. Although they have material resources beyond imagination, their lives are empty and boring. Without a purpose or purpose, they let re-introduced slaves carry them around on sedan chairs. The new, unique pleasure-stimuli therapy by the world-famous psychotherapist Prof. Dr. Immanuel Young attracts them from whom they expect the solution to their problem. At his Peace of Mind facility on the Pellworm coast, they hope to conquer their disease. His four-phase therapy, which is characterized by surprising elements, ends in writing a wish list which, according to a film director who recurs on a meta-level, shows the stupidity of humanity.
background
In addition to the actors Robert Stadlober , Wieland Schönfelder , Matthias Scheuring and Paula Kalenberg , the ensemble also included the musicians Blixa Bargeld , Flo Fernandez , Dirk von Lowtzow and Paul Pötsch ( Trümmer ), some of whom had taken on their first film roles. Patrick Siegfried Zimmer was responsible for the script, direction and music and was successful as a musician under the name finn until 2011 . Anhedonia was his first full-length feature film. The original idea of a bored pair of siblings was inspired by Zimmer's study of Marshall McLuhan's essay "In love with his apparatus - narcissism as anesthesia". The first part of the title, Anhedonia, is the original title of Woody Allen's film Der Stadtneurotiker . Robert Stadlober was responsible for large parts of the casting and, in addition to taking on a leading role, worked as a co-producer and co-director. Although the film is set in 2020, the costumes and props are more from the 1920s. Exceptions are the smartphone from Fritz and the mini tablet from Franz.
reception
“Designed as an intelligent social satire and implemented brilliantly in places, the film proves to be extremely tiring over long stretches. It is precisely the concern not to appear too arty in the experimental that robs the film of its strength as a satirical statement. Anhedonia is formally reminiscent of a Castorf production: a lot of screaming and hysteria contrasted by whining and rustling, a lot of mannered broken by vulgarisms, unrestrained self-referentiality. Anhedonia is an intellectual cat that bites its own tail, which sometimes annoys you, sometimes fascinates you, but above all makes you think in circles. "
"... the two boys jump through a fin-de-siècle world, which is staged by director and cinema debutant Patrick Siegfried Zimmer as the Teutonic Wes Anderson."
"Anachronistic and ironic, wild, beautiful, silly:" Anhedonia - narcissism as anesthesia "is pleasantly strange art cinema."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filmfest Hamburg 2015 - Anhedonia "Narcissism as anesthesia". In: filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Robert Stadlober, Dirk von Lowtzow, Paul Pötsch & Blixa Bargeld together in one film - With pleasure Hamburg. In: hamburg.mitvergnuegen.com. March 30, 2016, accessed April 2, 2016 .
- ↑ »Anhedonia« - film feature to be released in theaters / teaser video premiere - Spex Magazin. (No longer available online.) In: spex.de. March 28, 2016, archived from the original on April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved April 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article on welt.de from April 3, 2016
- ↑ Article on taz.de from March 30, 2016
