Dating Lancelot

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Movie
Original title Dating Lancelot
Country of production Germany , Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Oliver Rihs
script Jann Preuss
production Jan Krüger ,
Melanie Possible ,
René Römert
music Beat Solèr
camera Olivier Kolb
cut Jessie Fischer ,
Andreas Radtke ,
Sarah Clara Weber
occupation

Dating Lanzelot is a German comedy film from 2011 by director Oliver Rihs . Peter Weiss , Manuel Cortez and Narges Rashidi play the leading roles . The cinema release in Germany took place on August 30, 2012.

Dating Lancelot is an episode film about the search for great love with the help of the Internet.

action

The reserved Lancelot doesn't know how to get to know women. He also feels a bit of a state of emergency because he hasn't had sex for three years . His single existence finally takes a turn when his flatmate and best friend Milan sets up an online dating profile for him, which he then uses intensively. Lancelot suddenly cannot save himself from date requests. Unfortunately, his encounters with the opposite sex are anything but pleasant. Lancelot meets neurotic big city singles and is used in his search for the only true one for bizarre sex fantasies. But it is not that easy to find the dream woman and to conquer her heart. It is only at the end that he realizes that the sweet waitress of the café where he experiences his horror encounters is for him the woman of his life.

background

The film was produced by Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion , Seven Pictures and Swiss Effects . The Berlin director Oliver Rihs originally conceived his antihero's adventures for the Internet, where he also realized various episodes. It was also planned to subsequently process the online series into a cinema film with subsequent DVD release. Critics say that this would still be noted in the theatrical version today.

Reviews

According to press information on the film, it is named as the “first contemporary and fresh comedy on the subject of finding a partner on the Internet”.

For cinema.de the film is an "inconsequential scene comedy pepped up with optical gimmicks" and an "absurdly over-the-top number revue, which - despite a successful Bollywood finale - annoys with its penetratingly weird narrative."

spielfilm.de judged: “'Dating Lanzelot' is a crazy, cheeky-frivolous comedy that clearly focuses on its at least equally wacky characters and their peculiarities. If you don't take the characters and the underlying plot too seriously, you will experience 90 colorful, entertaining and entertaining minutes. ”Only“ when Lancelot is suddenly forced to role-play in butcher's clothing and with a butcher's knife, then that's only reasonably funny and rather embarrassing and tasteless. In addition to the exaggerated figures, the unconventional imagery causes a lot of confusion and demands patience and nerves from the viewer. "

Joachim Kurz from kino-zeit.de assessed: “The focus of the story (s) is mainly on the individual episodes, while the frame story, which consists mainly of conversations between Lanzelot and his roommate Milan (Manuel Cortez), hardly deals with the Status of a sketch comes out. And it is precisely here that the constructive weaknesses in the performance come to light. ”“ The individual episodes are much funnier, that is, dates with women, whose neuroses and quirks are so exaggerated that the peculiarities of the love seeker contrast with the sad figure comparatively harmless. ”“ Nevertheless, 'Dating Lanzelot' definitely has its successful moments or episodes, which cannot prevent the film from being forgotten again very quickly. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dating Lanzelot at spielfilm.de, accessed on February 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Film review by Joachim Kurz at kino-zeit.de, accessed on February 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ Review of the film at cinema.de , accessed on February 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ Review: Dating Lanzelot (2011) at spielfilm.de, accessed on February 23, 2020.