The shitty things
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The shitty things |
| Original title | De helaasheid of things |
| Country of production | Belgium , Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Felix Van Groeningen |
| script |
Christophe Dirickx , Felix Van Groeningen |
| production | Dirk Impens |
| music | Jef Neve |
| camera | Ruben Impens |
| cut | Nico Leunen |
| occupation | |
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The shit of things (in the original: De helaasheid der dingen ) is a Flemish film by the Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen . In addition to directing , he was also involved in writing the script . The work is a film adaptation of the very popular and successful book De helaasheid der dingen (2006) by Dimitri Verhulst in Belgium and the Netherlands . The book was published in Germany in 2007 as Die Beschissenheit der Dinge . The French title is La Merditude des Choses , the English title is The Misfortunates .
Filming began in January 2008. At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival , The Shit of Things was selected for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs competition. The film received the Prix Art et Essai in Cannes .
On April 21, 2010, the film was shown for the first time in Germany in the original with subtitles at a sneak preview in the Universum cinema in Braunschweig . The official start date was May 20, 2010.
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The 13-year-old Gunther grew up in the 1980s with his father and uncles on a shabby farm in an abandoned Flemish nest. He doesn't want anything to do with his mother. His father is an alcoholic but is kind of a role model for him. His father's brothers also live in asocial conditions and worship the American singer Roy Orbison . So Gunther grew up drinking beer, mobbing and fighting.
The film has a second time level. She describes Gunther's life as a writer in the present; as an adult he hates two people in particular: still his mother and his wife, who is expecting a child from him.
Movie review
Jörg Böckem's résumé in Spiegel describes the film as a successful collage: the director has “found a haunting tone, located between the alcohol-laden realism of Charles Bukowski , Aki Kaurismäki's poetry of losers and the rough, anarchic humor of the Dutch comedy Flodder . (...) Van Groeningen shows its protagonists unadorned - without exhibiting them. "
In the May 2010 edition of the Kulturspiegel , the film is described as a prolific comedy, which is initially very reminiscent of the Dutch cinema family Die Flodders : "Drink, hit, bawl - jokers from the lower classes who happily scare the neighbors." The dark side of this family is shown, for example when the father attacks his son with a knife.
In the May issue and on the Cinema website , the film was rated poorly because of the "grotesquely exaggerated scenes". Gunther's youth is only shown as an "endless sequence of binge drinking, with the film losing any distance from the events." Cinema comes to the following conclusion: "Ordinary social satire that makes you laugh".
Web links
- The Misfortunates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- List of voice actors
- Thematic and aesthetic background information (pdf), film & curriculum from the Institute for Cinema and Film Culture
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Shitty Things . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 478 K).
- ↑ Review of Dimitri Verhulst - The Shit of Things
- ^ Jörg Böckem: Provincial grotesque in the cinema: clan on the dump. In: Spiegel Online, May 20, 2010.
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review