Body (film)

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Movie
German title body
Original title Ciało
Country of production Poland
original language Polish
Publishing year 2015
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Małgorzata Szumowska
script Małgorzata Szumowska,
Michał Englert
production Jacek Drosio ,
Michał Englert,
Małgorzata Szumowska
camera Michał Englert
cut Jacek Drosio
occupation

Body (Original title: Ciało ) is a Polish film production by the director Małgorzata Szumowska from 2015. The film premiered in the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival . The German theatrical release was on October 29, 2015.

action

Janusz is a prosecutor in Warsaw. In the case of crimes, he examines the crime scenes and records the details for further investigations. Six years ago his wife Helena died. Since then, her daughter Olga has suffered from anorexia . Janusz places her in a hospital. There the therapist Anna works with a group of anorexic girls.

Since the death of her own six-year-old son, Anna has been able to establish connections with the dead and deliver messages. With this ability, she has helped various people deal with the death of loved ones. She also talks to Olga about it. Her father is very critical of this and asks the attending doctor to replace Anna as a therapist.

When a text appears on a sheet of paper in a drawer in Janusz's apartment, which Janusz assumes is from his deceased wife, he asks Anna for a meeting. During this session, a connection to Helena should be established through Anna as the medium . This fails. Olga admits to having written the text.

In the last scene Janusz and Olga smile at each other across the table.

reception

Dietmar Dath wrote in the FAZ that Szumowska composed "using pathetic neglected themes, situations, scenes and characters" with "dark comedic serenity over ninety minutes: the ghost film in which people are haunted and the specter of human fear stays away" .

Julia Korbik in The European also takes up the humor of the film: Despite the serious topic, there is a lot of situation comedy in Body , “for example when Anna tries to convince Janusz that she believes in messages from the beyond - and it appears in Janusz's face with suppressed laughter twitches ". Overall, Małgorzata Szumowska “succeeded in making a small, touching film about how we use our bodies to cope with certain things”.

Anke Sterneborg remarked on RBB Kulturradio that Szumowska was drawing “in dull, pale, washed-out colors” a “depressing picture of her country, although you can feel her origins in the documentary”. But as with In the Name of ... she would also in this film "in a wonderful way undermine the sobering reality with a tender humanity and a surprising ray of light at the end".

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for body . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 539 K).
  2. ↑ Body. Berlin International Film Festival, accessed on February 20, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Dietmar Dath: Spook as family therapy. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 11, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 .
  4. ^ Julia Korbik: Janusz works, Olga pukes. In: The European . February 10, 2015, accessed February 20, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Anke Sterneborg: 65th Berlinale: "Body" ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , RBB Kulturradio on February 10, 2015, accessed on February 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturradio.de