Arthur & Claire (film)

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Movie
Original title Arthur & Claire
Country of production Germany , Austria , Netherlands
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Miguel Alexandre
script Miguel Alexandre,
Josef Hader
production Gerald Podgornig ,
Gudula von Eysmondt
camera Katharina Diessner
cut Marcel Peragine
occupation

Arthur & Claire is a German - Austrian - Dutch co-production from 2017 by Miguel Alexandre with Josef Hader as Arthur and Hannah Hoekstra as Claire. The screenplay by Miguel Alexandre and Josef Hader is based on the play of the same name by Stefan Vögel .

The film was shown as the opening film at the 17th Film Art Fair in Leipzig on September 25, 2017. The cinema release took place in Austria on February 16, 2018 and in Germany on March 8, 2018. ORF premiere was on November 1, 2019, the first broadcast on ZDF on July 21, 2020.

action

Arthur, in his early 50s, suffers from incurable lung cancer. He travels to Amsterdam to end his own life in a self-determined clinic for euthanasia . The evening before, he would like to have one last feast in his Amsterdam hotel room and write a farewell letter to his son, but the loud music from the room next door bothers him. Arthur goes over to complain and makes the acquaintance of Claire in her early 30s, who was about to kill herself with pills. Arthur succeeds in preventing her from suicide . The discussion about the meaning of a life that is not exactly overshadowed by happiness leads to the compromise of spending one last evening together.

Claire shows Arthur the nightlife in Amsterdam. A year earlier, her 5-year-old daughter was killed in a traffic accident while Claire was behind the wheel and survived. Talking to Arthur gave her new courage to face life. On the other hand, she does not seem to be able to dissuade Arthur from his plan. When Arthur is at the clinic the next morning, however, he turns around, looks for Claire and finds her. Together they travel to Claire's hometown.

production

The shooting took place from November 2016 to January 2017, and the shooting took place in Amsterdam , Munich and Vienna . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , Nordmedia , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF), HessenFilm and the Dutch Film Fund, with ORF and ZDF involved .

The film was produced by the German Tivoli Film Produktion GmbH , co-producers were the Austrian Mona Film Produktion GmbH and the Dutch Topkapi Films . Max Vornehm was responsible for the sound, Birgit Hutter for the costume design and Susann Bieling for the production design.

reception

Alexandra Seibel found in the daily newspaper Kurier that Josef Hader would find enough space in his own script to accommodate his tried and tested Viennese sham with a good deal of self-contempt. "Bittersweet, delicately humorous blackened dialogues with self-irony enliven this two-person piece, which mixes a bit of wisdom with a dash of convention into a nice, not too profound one-night stand."

The portal femundo.de praised the successful cast: "The chemistry between the two main actors is right, Haders morbid demeanor contrasts wonderfully with the snotty, cheeky charm that the great Hannah Hoekstra exudes even as Claire who is tired of life."

Dominik Kamalzadeh said on DerStandard.at that the dramaturgical mood ping-pong would remain a bit routine, as would the tendency to punch lines that target the small cultural differences between Austria and the Netherlands. More illuminating are those dialogues that apply to the characteristics of the characters, grant them personality. “In Arthur & Claire, it is primarily the performers' merit to emphasize the instantaneousness of what may be the last night. Hader and Hoekstra are a harmonious team, precisely because of the dissonances. His callousness, which only subsides a little with marijuana consumption, finds a nice counterbalance in its quick-tempered naturalness. Something like that can even soften misanthropes. "

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Arthur & Claire . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 174921 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Age rating for Arthur & Claire . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Artistic cinema industry optimistic about the art film fair . Article dated August 23, 2017, accessed August 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Arthur & Claire - Film 2017 - FILMSTARTS.de . Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ Josef Hader and Hannah Hoekstra are "Arthur & Claire". In: ORF.at . Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  7. ↑ ZDF shows the cinema co-production "Arthur & Claire". In: presseportal.de. July 17, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  8. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Arthur & Claire . Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  9. ↑ ZDF is shooting the theatrical co-production “Arthur & Claire” with Josef Hader . Article dated November 24, 2016, accessed August 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ Kurier: New film with Josef Hader: Things that you don't miss . Article dated February 13, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ femundo.de: One man, one woman, one night , accessed on May 12, 2018
  12. ↑ derStandard.at: Josef Hader in "Arthur & Claire": The last night has to be the longest . Article dated February 13, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018.
  13. ^ Kurier: ROMY Academy: It's about the best of the best . Article dated March 3, 2018, accessed March 3, 2018.
  14. ^ Kurier: The winners of the Akademie-Romy 2018 . Article dated April 5, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
  15. ↑ WKO: Austria Ticket 2018 . Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  16. ↑ Prize Winner Hessian Film and Cinema Prize 2018 . Retrieved October 13, 2018.