Chucks (film)

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Movie
Original title Chucks
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 93 minutes
Age rating JMK 10
Rod
Director Sabine Hiebler ,
Gerhard Ertl
script Sabine Hiebler,
Gerhard Ertl, based
on the novel by Cornelia Travnicek
production Danny Krausz ,
Kurt Stocker
camera Wolfgang Thaler
cut Roland Stöttinger
occupation

Chucks is an Austrian coming-of-age film by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl from 2015 . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Cornelia Travnicek . The premiere took place on August 30, 2015 as part of the Montreal World Film Festival , the cinema release in Austria was on September 25, 2015. In Germany, the film was shown in October 2015 at the Hof International Film Festival , and in November 2015 it was screened at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF). In the United States, the film was shown at the Santa Barbara and Cleveland International Film Festivals.

action

The 16-year-old Maeva, called Mae, steals spray cans from the hardware store and uses them to spray parked trains and house facades. During one of these actions she is caught and sentenced to charitable work. She has to work off her sentence in the house of the Vienna AIDS Help Center . There she does everything to get on everyone's nerves and begs to be kicked out. When she smokes a cigarette there during the break and mocks Paul, who is five years her senior, only smiles back mildly.

Infected with HIV and hepatitis C , gentle Paul, 21, is the exact opposite of Mae. He is a photographer, has a nice, bright apartment, numerous books and an aquarium with axolotl . However, due to his AIDS illness, he did not have much longer to live; his friends withdrew from him after the disease broke out.

Mae, on the other hand, lives with her squatters and punk friends Tamara and Jakob, walks the streets of Vienna as a punk with fiery red hair and in red Converse shoes , smokes and drinks. She is on an aggressive course of confrontation and rebels against everything and everyone, does not want to be dictated to any rules; she rejects a bourgeois life.

One day she takes Paul by surprise when she moves in with him unannounced. Mae has a disturbed relationship with her mother; her mother invites Mae to her Tupperware birthday party, to which Mae only reluctantly goes. She also writes texts and tries her hand at being a slam poet . During one of the performances she discovers Paul in the audience and begins to tell about the death of her brother Sebastian, who died of leukemia , how she dealt with her grief and that of her parents and her brother's shoes - the chucks that gave her the title - that she has been wearing since his death.

Paul and Mae get closer, among other things they talk about his impending death, the friendship turns into a love affair. One day Paul suddenly throws Mae out of his apartment on the grounds that everything is becoming too much for him. Mae takes note of this at first, but when she realizes that he must have received his new, deteriorated laboratory values, she returns to Paul. He tells her that he should be switched to a new drug. The relationship with Paul allows Mae to get closer to her mother. When she invites them to a Christmas dinner, Mae tells her mother about Paul's illness.

Paul's health begins to deteriorate, Mae stays by his side the whole time and takes care of him, even after he is admitted to the hospital and is barely accessible. At a reading where Mae presents her book, there is a reconciliation between her and her mother.

production

The film was shot from August to October 2014 in Vienna . The film was supported by the Vienna Film Fund , the Austrian Film Institute and Film Location Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by Dor Film . Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson was responsible for the sound, Monika Buttinger for the costume design and Nikolai Ritter for the production design.

The music comes from Soap & Skin , Monsterheart , Julian & der Fux , Bilderbuch , Clara Luzia , Hella Comet and Propella , among others .

Compared to the novel of the same name by Cornelia Travnicek , the story has been brought into a continuous time level with the exception of childhood retrospectives, while the novel jumps between different ages and ages of the protagonist. Individual minor characters have also been greatly changed and properties of several characters have been compressed into one. Maes Freundeskreis does not spend time with drugs on Karlsplatz , as in the book , but with spray cans in squats. Unlike in the book, where Mae is convicted of physical harm to community service, the film is convicted of property damage, the toughest drugs in the film are alcohol and weed.

The author of the novel has two cameo appearances in the film . During the shooting there was a scene in which a group of young people were supposed to spray a house in Vienna's seventh district. Although the appropriate permits were in place, the police were alerted, who came with flashing lights and sirens and tried to arrest the sprayers.

The film was released on DVD in 2016 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

reception

The cinema magazine Skip praised the film as “a film that is both gosh-eyed and infinitely delicate, located in a completely different Vienna than it is usually seen in the cinema: a haunting, unforgettable film event.” The daily newspapers Kurier and the Kleine Zeitung praised the leading actress as “Discovery” or “absolute promise for the future”.

It was criticized that the film deviates from the novel and is too sentimental or exaggerated. Martina Bauer, for example, wrote on the FM4 website that the film is “more mainstream, less indie” than the book, and the daily Die Presse described the film as a “maudlin coming-of-age drama” and wrote: “Always, if something is to be seen on the screen that is too rough, too pregnant with meaning or too pathetic, then the script deviates from the novel. Unfortunately, it often does. " DerStandard.at said:" Although Chucks doesn’t exaggerate compassionate and shows the togetherness in a cautious, humorous way, the melodramatic setting seems a bit exaggerated. "

Awards

The film won the Audience Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2015. For her leading role, Anna Posch was honored as best young actress at the 2016 Romy Awards and was nominated for the Austrian Film Prize 2016 as best female actress .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Age rating for Chucks . Youth Media Commission .
  2. 56th TIFF: Arnaud Desplechin Tribute & Focus on New Austrian Cinema ( Memento from September 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated October 19, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
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  4. Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
  5. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Chucks . Retrieved September 11, 2016.
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  7. a b Chucks: Interview with Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl ( Memento from September 11, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. Ray Magazin: Chucks - Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl filmed the youth novel by Cornelia Travnicek . September 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  9. a b diepresse.com: “Chucks” based on Cornelia Travnicek: Punk can be so kitschy . Article dated September 25, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  10. a b orf.at - "Chucks" goes film . Article dated September 25, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  11. derStandard.at: The Austrian Film # 279: Chucks . Article dated October 12, 2016.
  12. Courier: "Chucks": Rebel with red hair . Article dated September 24, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  13. Kleine Zeitung: "Chucks" in the cinema: A hymn to life . Article dated September 25, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  14. derStandard.at - "Chucks": Rebels also seek security . Article dated September 24, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  15. Vienna Film Fund: CHUCK excellent in Montreal with audience award . Article dated September 7, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  16. derStandard.at - Romy Academy Awards: ATV and Puls 4 share the best program idea . Article dated April 15, 2016, accessed April 15, 2016.