Cindy doesn't love me

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Movie
Original title Cindy doesn't love me
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Hannah Schweier
script Hannah Schweier based on a template by Jochen-Martin Gutsch and Juan Moreno
production Julia Kleinhenz, Felix Eisele, Katja Siegel, Bernhard Stegmann
music Matthias Klein
camera Thorge Horstmann
cut Barbara Toennieshen
occupation

Cindy loves me not is a German love film by Hannah Schweier from 2010 with Anne Schäfer , Clemens Schick and Peter Weiss . It is the first feature film by Schweier based on a 2005 novel. At the same time, she successfully completed her studies at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy .

action

Franz is in his late twenties and works as a bartender in the Mannheim bar Cindy doesn't love me . At the bar he chats regularly into the night with his boss Rainer and regular guest Zvgalsky about God and the world. His changing relationships mean little to him; rather he lives into the day. He lives in a spartan apartment and drives an old, green-brown, not very well-kept Passat . It is very important to him not to get lost in daydreams. One evening he met the nurse Maria, who suddenly spoke to him. After the end of the shift, she accompanies him home and asks Franz whether he is interested in a relationship. The two come together and Franz's previously non-binding life is mixed up. Shortly afterwards Maria disappeared.

David works as a trainee lawyer at a public prosecutor's office . He is also of a similar age to Franz and is gradually getting used to bourgeois life with a predictable daily routine. Always properly dressed, he is on the way to a permanent position as a public prosecutor , which will give him an adequate and plannable life. However, he is not sure if he really wants this life. One evening he gets to know Maria and falls in love with the woman until she suddenly disappears.

By chance, Franz learns from Zvgalsky that he knows a young public prosecutor who is also looking for Maria. Franz looks for David in the courthouse and asks him about Maria. The two have to realize that they are in love with the same woman and have been part of a love triangle over the past few months . They have a strong dislike for one another, as it becomes clear that Maria was with the two very different characters . David also makes it clear to Franz that he will only find Maria again with his help - he knows her last name and knows where Maria's parents live.

Together, the unlikely couple set out on a search for the missing person. The journey takes her to see Mary's mother, who lives in a place called Philadelphia . The mother remains silent about Mary's whereabouts and wants to appease the two men by telling them that Maria is fine. David discovers a letter addressed to Maria and secretly takes it with him. The two men learn that Maria has applied for admission to a psychiatric clinic . David then cancels his first court hearing and persuades Franz to go to the clinic together. You arrive there in the evening and meet a male nurse. He plays with the two men’s insecurity: he provides them with care clothing and promises to tell them more about Maria when the two take over his night shift . Shortly afterwards he disappears. Her fears of being alone in the clinic with patients and not being able to help them in an emergency, however, are not confirmed. Rather, Franz is talking animatedly with Gabriela, an attractive woman who is being treated in the clinic for her depression . The next day the nurse reappears and reveals to the two that Maria is not here. Rather, they would have to travel to Denmark to find out more about them there.

Franz and David can hardly believe what they have just heard, but set off. On the trip, the two dissimilar men slowly become friends, at the same time the tension between the two grows as to whom Maria will choose when they see her again. But they also recognize that their previous life, constantly looking for something different and better, cannot be continued like this. When they arrive in Denmark they stand in front of the house whose address they have received from the carer. Through an open window they hear Maria's voice in the house, but only Olaf, a man of a similar age as the two, opens it. Franz and David are shocked to learn that he is Maria's husband, who has been married to her for seven years. They watch a video of Maria together and realize that she suffers from depression that makes it impossible for her to have a relationship with just one person. Rather, you prepare the feeling of loving and being loved, the highest feeling of aliveness. In addition, her fiction and real life are blurred - in the video she tells of a Cindy who is unable to love. Her husband knows about her weakness, but loves her nonetheless and hopes that Maria will return to him soon. David and Franz, however, have to realize that none of them will win Maria over. You are returning to Germany. David borrows his vehicle from Franz and drives down from the ferry into an uncertain future. Franz leaves the ferry on foot and cannot be sure what his life will be like in the future. Both know that their life has changed through Mary, even if there will be no future with her for both of them.

criticism

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the young director. She “succeeded in taking a melancholy look at the world of people around thirty. A contemporary film from Germany, in which, refreshingly, neither the Internet nor Berlin play a role. Poetic images, realistic dialogues and great actors are enough for this unusual love story. ”The Berliner Zeitung came to the conclusion:“ A must for all men who still consider their species to be “the strongest sex”, and for all women who finally do want to learn how they can teach a lesson to yesterday's wannabe machos. ”In contrast, the Cinema criticized :“ The actors' joy in playing makes up for some structural weaknesses in the story ”. And kino.de comes to the following conclusion: “ Debutante Hannah Schweier's script takes a while to get going, her direction remains brittle at first, but in the course of the road movie develops sympathy for her perfectly cast characters and sees life as one Sequence of increasingly absurd but liberating (self) insights. " Widescreen summarizes the film as follows:" The dialogues have a light soap character, a few situations seem artificial and exaggerated. But in the end there is a road movie with gentle melancholy. "

Performances and DVD sales

The film was shown for the first time on February 15, 2010 at the Berlinale in the section "Perspektive Deutscher Film". The cinema release took place on June 10, 2010, the television premiere on June 25, 2011 on ZDF . The film was also shown in the course of the small television game in 2012. A performance with audio description took place on May 8, 2014 in the Kleisthaus in Berlin . A DVD was released on January 14, 2011.

Others

  • At the end of the film, the musical leitmotif is the song “Will you go with me” by the Israeli film actress and singer Daliah Lavi .
  • The scenes in the hospital were filmed in the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Bensheim . Further locations were Mannheim , Karlsruhe and Gedser in Denmark.
  • The Onkel-Otto-Bar in Mannheim- Jungbusch was available for the recordings in the bar .
  • The two men go to Philadelphia , which - according to the zip code on Maria's letter - should be in routing zone 9. In Germany, however, there is only one district of Philadelphia , which is in Storkow (Mark) in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .
  • The production was carried out by av medien penrose in Stuttgart in coproduction with Penrose Film (Berlin), “ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel” and the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. The distribution is carried out by Reverse Angle Pictures in the distribution of Neue Visionen .
  • The recordings for the interview were shot on the premises of Mannheimer Versicherung .

literature

  • Jochen-Martin Gutsch, Juan Moreno: Cindy doesn't love me . 1st edition. KiWi, 2005, ISBN 3-462-03485-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short biography of Hannah Schweier on the official First Steps page, accessed on May 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ Daniel Grinsted: On TV: "Cindy doesn't love me" and Daliah Lavi sings a song about darkness . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 25, 2011, accessed March 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ Cindy doesn't love me. Unusual road movie - machos going astray . In: Berliner Zeitung . June 10, 2010, accessed May 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Cindy doesn't love me - Two men are looking for love and find themselves , website of cinema.de, accessed on May 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Film review of Cindy doesn't love me on kino.de, accessed on May 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Movie review: Cindy doesn't love me , website from widescreen-online, accessed on May 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ Cindy doesn't love me , website of the Bergstrasse economic region, accessed on May 3, 2014.