Coming in
Coming In is a German fiction film by the director Marco Kreuzpaintner from 2014 . The comedy is based on a script shared by Kreuzpaintners and the author Jane Ainscough and tells of the gay star hairdresser and scene hero Tom Herzner, played by Kostja Ullmann , who is hired for a field study in a hairdressing salon in Berlin-Neukölln and there, contrary to expectations in love with its owner Heidi, played by Aylin Tezel . In addition to Ullmann and Tezel, Ken Duken , Katja Riemann , August Zirner , Denis Moschitto , Frederick Lau and Hanno Koffler appeared in front of the camera.
The comedy was realized by Kreuzpaintner's production company Summerstorm Entertainment in co-production with Warner Bros. Filmproduktion and in collaboration with Bavaria Film Partners. Roland Emmerich and Klemens Hallmann , among others, took part in the project as executive producers . The shooting took place from October to November 2013 in Berlin. The German theatrical release followed on October 23, 2014. The production polarized strongly among critics due to its subject matter after its release. The total number of visitors was around 146,000.
The film is not to be confused with the TV comedy of the same name from 1997 with Steffen Wink and Franka Potente , which has a similar plot.
action
Nobel hairdresser Tom Herzner has invented a new men's shampoo that he is now supposed to produce for women too. However, he has no idea about women because he likes men. Therefore, he is sent to the Bel Hair women's hairdressing salon to work there. It's not as posh there as in his own hair salon. At “Bel Hair” he meets the boss, Heidi. In the end, they both fall in love.
production
Kreuzpaintner's story of Coming In was inspired by his first boyfriend, who, after the end of their relationship and in a completely surprising way , dated a woman . This met with incomprehension and outrage, especially in Kreuzpaintner's environment; it interpreted the behavior of the ex-boyfriend as a "phase", in which Kreuzpaintner saw a counterpart to the stereotic behavior of heterosexuals after a coming out . Recognizing the cinematic entertainment value and being convinced that “you can deal with a gay topic in mainstream cinema with confidence in such a way that you should be able to laugh at yourself as a gay”, he began work on a script. He received support from the British-German author Jane Ainscough . Kreuzpaintner, who found the story as a suitable basis for his first international directorial work, decided to set the action in London . However, funding for the film failed after British actor Orlando Bloom , who was slated for the lead role, left the project after initial rehearsals.
Kreuzpaintner decided to keep fighting for the project and revised the script significantly for the German film market. The subsequent attempt to realize the film in the Bavarian capital Munich , however, also failed due to a lack of film funding from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern). It was not until the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg guaranteed financial support that the film adaptation for the German-speaking area took shape several years later. The shooting took place from October 2 to November 26, 2013 in Berlin . It was mainly filmed in Mitte and Neukölln ; including the Große Stern , a hair salon on Gendarmenmarkt and the Quatsch Comedy Club below the Friedrichstadtpalast . The two main actors Kostja Ullmann and Aylin Tezel learned how to use hairdressing scissors professionally in preparation for the production. The film was produced by Kreuzpaintner's production company Summerstorm Entertainment in co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures Germany and in collaboration with Bavaria Film . The comedy was the first project of the Berlin think tank founded in 2009 by Kreuzpaintner and the two producers Gabriela Bacher and Fabian Wolfart.
In terms of content, Coming In was already highly controversial in the run-up to the shooting. The LGBT community, especially online, criticized the fact that the plot of the film suggested that "homosexuality is just a phase of confusion". Kreuzpaintner, who emphasized how “there is a lot of pressure on you to make a film with a budget of millions and that in a purely heterosexual dominated film world”, and who had to defend certain points in the script that were important to him during the making, showed himself “a little annoyed ”and“ hurt ”by the criticism. He stated that with Coming In it was not about "the return to traditional marriage" between man and woman, but rather "entertaining the funny moments of such a strange situation". He called Coming In the “ultimate coming-out film” for popcorn cinema suitable for the masses, which was “initially only intended as a comedy” and “and not as a political discourse” or aimed at “ homo-healing ”.
Film music
The music for the film was provided by Peter Plate and his former partner Ulf Leo Sommer . In addition to the score, the duo also composed all of the accompanying songs that can be heard in the course of Coming In and were precisely tailored to the respective scenes in terms of music and content. Plate and Sommer decided to have all titles singed by only one female and one male voice. For this the two singers Chris Schummert and Maxine Kazis could be signed. A video trilogy was created for three tracks from the soundtrack album, for which Kreuzpaintner was also responsible as a director. For example, three music videos were released for “Dancing with Sharks”, “Anything Goes” and “Something Beautiful” , in which the two main actors Kostja Ullmann and Aylin Tezel also played.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film was released on October 24, 2014 on Pop-Out Musik.
| Track list | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | title | Interpreter | length |
| 1. | Anything Goes | Chris Schummert | 3:59 |
| 2. | Dancing with Sharks | Chris Schummert | 1:38 |
| 3. | Driving | Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer | 1:38 |
| 4th | Blue Sunday | Maxine Kazis | 3:50 |
| 5. | Mad, Mad World | Chris Schummert | 3:55 |
| 6th | First touch | Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer | 3:55 |
| 7th | Something beautiful | Chris Schummert | 4:02 |
| 8th. | Sea captain | Maxine Kazis | 4:56 |
| 9. | case | Chris Schummert, Maxine Kazis | 3:22 |
| 10. | Freeze the picture | Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer | 1:49 |
| 11. | Take Me Home | Maxine Kazis | 2:44 |
| 12. | Another Universe | Peter Plate, Ulf Leo Sommer | 1:24 |
criticism
After publication, the production polarized strongly. The online magazine Queer.de criticized: “ Coming In tears rifts between man and woman, homo and hetero, rich and poor, young and old, although he pretends to close them. Coming in is stupid because he bends down after every cheap punchline that is rightly on the ground. Coming in is homophobic because he doesn't take being gay seriously, but presents it as a 'shrill' life plan from which there are only two options: Either you get married and thus give your relationship a bourgeois, heteronormative legitimation (see the old lady and her partner ), or you notice that you are actually straight (see Tom). That one can just be gay and free and happy is not foreseen in the script. "
Patrick Heidmann from epd Film , on the other hand, wrote that the “fear, expressed several times in advance, that Kreuzpaintner would betray 'the gay thing' with his new film” turns out to be “unfounded”: “Rather, he simply uses a hundredfold for Coming In tried and tested scheme of romantic comedy and brings two people together who actually don't seem to go together ”. Kreuzpaintner “succeeded in creating a film that is unparalleled in this country. Because the fact that in a production that blatantly looks at the masses tastes as a matter of course five of the main characters are homosexual is far from normal [...] At least that makes Coming In - despite all RomCom clichés and less subtle figure drawings - a likeable, yes, even daring ventures ”.
" Coming In is a charming romantic comedy with a lot of humor and a wonderfully harmonious leading actor, but the possibilities of the exciting starting situation are only partially played out," said Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts . “When a gay star stylist falls in love with a charming, rustic local hairdresser and reconsiders his or her sexual identity, some traditional gender roles may initially appear to be turned upside down, but in the end the same song about the romantic one turns up again Love played. And that's a good thing when the protagonists harmonize as well as Kostja Ullmann and Aylin Tezel. Because that's the most important thing in this genre of wish fulfillment: that the chemistry between the canvas lovers is right. "
"Yes, there are clichés in this brightly colored box that the director Marco Kreuzpaintner, who has been nominated for the sensitive subject so far, is building up in front of us with an almost American professionalism," said Die Welt in its review. “The well-known and talented mimes that romps about in Coming In down to the smallest supporting roles, that can really be seen [...] They all act with that pleasure in the well-placed effect that only the typical clothes allow. If it comes across as intelligent. And she does that at Kreuzpaintner, who has distilled a bitter-sweet romance from the somewhat overloaded story with its many locations and characters, which is guaranteed to end happily: with three sumptuous weddings at once. "
success
Coming In celebrated its world premiere on October 22nd, 2014 at the Cinemaxx cinema on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin . The premiere guests included Clemens Schick , Peter Plate, Barbara Meier , Vladimir Burlakov , Chris Schummert , Tom Beck , Sanny van Heteren , Michael Baral , Nova Meierhenrich , Anika Decker , Patrice Bouédibéla and Janin Reinhardt . The release for the public screening of the production was finally given on October 23 by Warner Bros. Pictures Germany . After the end of the first screening weekend, the production was able to reach around 55,000 viewers in 350 cinemas. Coming In rose to number 11 in the German cinema charts. With a total of 146,435 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy was ranked 42nd among the most-watched German cinema productions of 2014. At FilmOut San Diego, a film festival for LGBT contributions, Coming In won the audience award in 2016 in the “Best International Film” category.
Web links
- Coming in at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c I am the total gay lawyer in the German film industry . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d It's not about homo-healing . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ A b c Stefan Peter: Kostja Ullmann got the role of Orlando Bloom . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ Andrea Hanna Hünniger: I was never cool . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ Peter Zander: Kostja Ullmann: 'Kissing Ken was very stubbly' . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ a b c d Coming In (2014) . Filmportal.de. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ^ A b Andreas Kurtz: Among hairdressers: Up to the tips . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Peter Plate on Romeo & Juliet and the return of Rosenstolz . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ Michael Thiele: "Coming In": The failed comedy . [1] lines 39-54. Queer.de - the gay and lesbian magazine. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
- ↑ Critique of Coming In4 . In: epd film . Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Coming In> Filmstarts Critique . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
- ↑ A little bit of bi never hurts . In: The world . Welt.de. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
- ↑ a b c Nadin Hornberger: From gay to straight: World premiere of “Coming In” . Presseportal.de. October 1, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ↑ Jens Schröder: Cinema charts: Horror films dominate the weekend before Halloween . Meedia.de. October 27, 2014. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ↑ "Turtles" continues to number one in the German cinema charts . Focus.de. October 27, 2014. Retrieved November 7, 2014.
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (national) 2014 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ↑ Coming In: Awards . In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved October 14, 2019.