The have-nots (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The have-nots |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Florian Hoffmeister |
| script | Mona cinema |
| production | Titus Kreyenberg |
| music | Adrian Corker |
| camera | Robert Binnall |
| cut | Kathrin Dietzel |
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Die habenichtse is a German film drama from 2016 with Julia Jentsch and Sebastian Zimmler in the leading roles. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Katharina Hacker . The film shows how the lives of two young people changed after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 .
action
Hans and Jakob are two young lawyers who lived in Berlin in 2001 . When the two meet in a pub, Jakob discovers a notice in a magazine for a vernissage with a picture of Isabelle. She was his great love from his student days; after that, however, the two lost sight of each other. Hans encourages Jakob to attend the vernissage. He himself cannot come because he has to make an appointment on September 11th at the World Trade Center in New York City . While Jakob meets Isabelle the following evening, as he had hoped, Hans is killed in the terrorist attack.
From then on, this death overshadows the newly flared relationship between the two. Jakob receives the offer to take on a new position in London in place of Hans . He asked Isabelle, who works as a freelance graphic designer for children's books in Berlin, to accompany him. The two marry and Isabelle follows him to the UK . However, their relationship is under great strain. Jakob tries in vain to distract himself from the death of his friend through work. Isabelle does not manage to gain a foothold professionally in the new country. She begins an ominous relationship with the dealer Jim, who cannot give her the expected fulfillment either.
Both find that their lives are getting out of hand and that they are on the verge of losing their relationship. At the end of the film, they both try to start over together.
reception
Caroline Weidner points out in Spiegel Online that the film demands “a lot from its audience” because it risks getting “swimming”. However, she also praises the "certain physicality and readiness for affect that is inherent in the figure of Isabelle". All in all, however, this is only "medium-sized consolation for a film that doesn't even want to spread a bad mood because that would be too obvious again." Katharina Grimnitz from the film magazine epd Film criticizes that "some dialogues seem overly significant", however, she likes the "great visual solutions".
Web links
- The have-nots in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Unafilm website , accessed on January 26, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the have-nots . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 164029 / K).
- ↑ Caroline Weidner: Lifestyle: gray . In: Spiegel Online , November 30, 2016, accessed January 26, 2019.
- ↑ Katharina Grimnitz: Critique of Die habenichtse . In: epd Film , November 25, 2016, accessed on January 26, 2019.