The red room (film)

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Movie
Original title The red room
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rudolf Thome
script Rudolf Thome
production Rudolf Thome
Degeto
music Katia Tchemberdji
camera Ute friend
cut Beatrice Babin
occupation

The red room is a film by Rudolf Thome from 2010 . The world premiere took place on October 24, 2010 at the Viennale . On January 13, 2011 the film was launched in German cinemas.

action

The kiss researcher Fred celebrates his 39th birthday with a prostitute. He's still married, but his wife, whom he still loves, lives apart from him and wants to get a divorce.

Luzie and Sibil live in a blue house in the country. The two women have a lesbian relationship, but Sibil also has a relationship with Peter, a young man from the neighborhood. Luzie is writing a novel about the man's mental life, while Sibil simply lives the day. Fred invites young couples into his laboratory, who then have to kiss for a quarter of an hour. It evaluates the subjects' blood and saliva data. His professor puts pressure on him. The results have to be available faster. On the day of his divorce, he met Luzie in a bookstore. The two women speak to men in libraries and bookstores. There you meet the lonely men who serve as research objects for Luzie's book. When Fred visits the women in their house, the first thing he has to do is swim naked with them in the lake, with the women wearing bikinis. Then he and Alexander, whom Sibil picked up in a library, are subjected to a test that looks at the feelings men have towards women. Alexander is sent home and Fred stays with the women after an alcoholic dinner. But there is no sex.

Back in town, Fred repairs himself and gets a fishing rod. He found out that the two women like fishing and then rented a guest house near the country house. He visits the women who invite him into their mysterious “red room” that evening. But there they only watch the news together . Both women fall in love with Fred, who in turn falls in love with them. There were jealous scenes and Luzie sent Fred away. When he is sitting alone in front of a campfire by the lake, “Venus” comes out of the water and seduces him. Then Sibil waits for him in his pension. They spend the night together. The next day the women sign a "love contract" with Fred. He transfers 3,000 euros a month and receives the two women as his “completely legal” harem.

background

Rudolf Thome about the two leading actresses: “In general, both actresses, more than I was used to, invented a lot of their own accord about what was in the script. They kept coming up with new suggestions and ideas. The most extreme came from Seyneb Saleh, she didn't play any take like the other. Katharina Lorenz was more continuous. "

About shooting with the Red One film camera : “The shooting itself was more relaxed for me because there was no longer any consumption of material. I was able to record rehearsals, I told the actors again for the first time that you play until I say "Cut", that is how long you keep playing. So for me it was a festival as a director and as a producer. I was suddenly confronted with a freedom that I would have liked to have had earlier. "

Regarding the work with the actors: “I don't have to control the actors to see how good they are, I can see that while shooting. I'm not sitting behind the monitor either, although 90% of my colleagues will probably do that when shooting with the Red. Because it's more convenient, less stressful, and you see the finished picture. For the majority of directors, the image of a film is more important than the actors than the people who portray them. For me, it's about the people I show, that's my main aspect. "

Reviews

“With Thome, however, the actors' own personality becomes evident as the essence of the story as a matter of course. Nothing is ever completely open in the stories, one is never blackmailed into clear feelings. The truth about the webs that Thome weaves is that their threads don't stick. "

- taz

“What sounds like an unusual love triangle unfortunately turns out to be wooden boredom that has not been seen in the cinema for a long time. Actors act like robots, leave you completely cold, the irrelevant splashing around is difficult to bear. "

- prisma.de

“Thome succeeds in telling the story of this ménage-à-trois convincingly, but in a pleasantly undramatic way, with soft tones. That is to be taken literally, because Thome has underlined his film with the wonderful music of Katia Tchemberdij. "

- The time

“Love only makes sense for three people - what Tom Tykwer so vehemently proclaimed for three and yet didn't really get it on screen, with Thome it becomes very evident. His cinema takes apart the chimera of idealistic love, love for him is absurd and sincere at the same time, directed by impulses and contracts, dominated by women, their superiority and their arrogance, and always on the verge of prostitution. "

- Süddeutsche Zeitung

"Thome has not become distant and cool with age, but pursues his passions and dreams with unheard of openness, in a relaxed rhythm that brings even the grossest banalities into the right balance."

- critic.de

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Red Room . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 245 K).
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Thome in the press booklet for the film
  3. ↑ Ekkehard Knörer in taz of January 13, 2011
  4. ↑ The red room. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Fokke Joel in Die Zeit of January 14, 2011
  6. ^ Fritz Göttler in Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 13, 2011
  7. ↑ Thorsten Funke on critic.de