My mother's tears
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My mother's tears |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alejandro Cardenas-Amelio |
| script |
Cuini Amelio-Ortiz , Alejandro Cardenas-Amelio , Christoph Silber |
| production |
Nicolas Grupe , Guenter Fenner , Dirk Hamm |
| music | ZORT |
| camera | Florian Schilling |
| cut | Renata Salazar Ivancan |
| occupation | |
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My mother's tears is a German-Argentine feature film by director Alejandro Cardenas-Amelio from 2008. The film was produced by Filmworker GmbH & Co. KG and Creado Film GmbH and Co. KG in cooperation with ZDF ( Das kleine Television play ).
The film has already screened at several festivals and was released in German cinemas on November 6, 2008.
action
Alex has just arrived in Buenos Aires and is now on his way to the hospital where his father is dying. The man in his thirties is reluctant to visit because he has nothing more to say to him. On the way into the unknown, memories from his childhood are awakened.
After the military junta put Alex's uncle in prison in 1978, Alex's parents fled Argentina with him . You leave Alex's grandmother there and, after years of odyssey through Europe, finally end up in divided Berlin at the beginning of the 1980s . The family finds a new home in a Kreuzberg factory floor full of bizarre characters. They live in the loft with Jürgen, a photographer, and Sik, a closed youth. The trickster Günter, who has been sitting in a wheelchair since a stroke and who has managed to keep the budding filmmaker Andrea at his side for five years, as well as Micha, a charmer and womanizer with changing acquaintances, also live there One of the eyes of a loved one was gouged out of jealousy.
In the new, alien world Alex first has to find his way around, the German language sounds like a dog barking to him at first. But over time, he begins to feel at home in Berlin and memories of life in Argentina are blurred. One day he discovers that he has an extraordinary gift: He has mastered telekinesis , so he can move objects with the power of his thoughts.
His parents Lizzie and Carlos also initially had great problems settling in a foreign country. Lizzie soon starts making successful documentaries , but Carlos fails to gain a foothold as a draftsman and does occasional work as a church and street painter. While Lizzie is coming to terms with the new situation more and more, Carlos is simply not getting along in Berlin, feels misunderstood and as an outsider. The homesick and longing for his home in Buenos Aires leave him for hours in front of his paintings sit, Tango listen and lose yourself in nostalgia.
So the relationship between Lizzie and Carlos slowly begins to crack. Alex notices this development and tries with all his might and all the might of his gift to save the love of his parents.
At the same time, he is confronted with the everyday problems and adventures of his time. At school and in judo , he has to assert himself in front of the others and witnessed how Argentina won the title against Germany in the 1986 World Cup final . Then there is the completely different challenge of confessing to Hanna, a classmate, his first great love.
At school it comes up that the parents of many of his classmates are divorced . According to Alex, this is unthinkable for Argentines. Nevertheless, his parents split up when, after a fatal accident with his roommate Jürgen, his girlfriend Anita and Carlos reveal to the surprised Lizzie that they have had strong feelings for each other for a long time. Carlos leaves the country with Anita to return to Argentina, which Alex holds against him. While Lizzie remains alone in Berlin with Alex, Günter and Andrea are looking for a new home in Italy , and Sik has also moved out of the shared apartment for some time.
But in addition to the loss of many loved ones, life also has a positive twist in store for Alex, because in the end he succeeds in getting a kiss from his beloved Hanna.
In Buenos Aires, Alex finally arrives at the hospital and can be asked for forgiveness by his father shortly before he dies. In his mind, Alex takes him on his motorcycle tour through Buenos Aires, which his father had only promised him in Berlin.
background
The film is largely autobiographical taken from the life of the director and screenwriter Alejandro Cardenas-Amelio. It was filmed from February 13, 2007 to March 28, 2007 in Cologne , Berlin and Buenos Aires .
The film features four tracks by the alternative rock band Bamboo Industry, founded in 1983 by Ingo Ito and George DIN in Berlin . The songs Wheels Are Turning and Welcome to Rome can be found on the debut album Tortured By Pleasure , released in 1989 , while Valerie was released on the second album Hong Kong Memories in October 2009. Magic Box , however, is not to be found on any of the albums and was instead released on the B-side of the single Shake Hands With The Devil in 1990 by Sony BMG Music Entertainment .
Reviews
Bettina Friemel from kino.de saw the film as "the cinematic equivalent of leafing through a family album, where you can find people who have become dear to you who are no longer with us."
Steffen Greiner from echoes-online.de wrote, "My mother's tears" are "a tragic film [...] with many touching sequences and a surreal note."
"Adrian Goessel gives the mostly passive Alex, who observes the world of adults with interest, but almost never influences what is happening, a calm, yet strong presence", felt Thorsten Funke from critic.de. Daniel Schwan from sr-online.de regretted in the same breath: "It's actually a shame that the prize for the best young actor is not awarded to children" and thus praised the performance of the young Adrian Goessel. David Siems agrees with this criticism and wrote for programmkino.de: “You haven't seen a child's role in German film so subtly and empathetically for a long time.” Anke Herrmann from cinefacts.de puts in less the main role than the director the focus, whose conclusion is: "A really successful feature film debut."
"This is how» My Mother's Tears «became a drama that is both sad and beautiful - a symbiosis that is a real rarity in German film and therefore all the more commendable," wrote Kathrin Lang for moviesection.de.
Tim Sünderhauf from widesreen-vision.de thinks that "My mother's tears" are "a story told in a sensitive way, which as a childhood memory of a happy life, over which dark clouds gradually rise, is fully convincing."
"The crises of their marriage and the snotty zeitgeist of the 1980s are reflected in the adolescent's ironic view."
“The child's view of the world, its dreaminess and the playful, occasionally cheerful elements, they give the film an almost floating note, so that the actually quite difficult topic is never felt to be overwhelming,” summarizes Joachim Kurz from kinozeit. de.
"Now [Alejandro Cardenas-Amelio] talks about a bygone era with a smile and nobody becomes a caricature."
"The viewer is following this very special family story with excitement," said the Wiesbaden film evaluation office in its press release, thus awarding the title "valuable".
Nominations and Awards
The film was shown in competition at the 11th Shanghai International Film Festival in 2008 , and cinematographer Florian Schilling won the award for best camera.
Alice Dwyer won the award for best young actress at the 2008 Max Ophüls Prize film festival in Saarbrücken.
In addition, the film was nominated for the MFG-Star Baden-Baden 2008 young director award.
Web links
- My mother's tears in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My mother's tears at filmportal.de
- My mother's tears at crew united
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for My Mother's Tears . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 986 K).
- ↑ Participating companies according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b c Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b Kathrin Lang: My mother's tears. In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010 ; accessed on July 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Filming data according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Film review , kino.de, Bettina Friemel
- ↑ movie review ( Memento of 8 September 2016 Internet Archive ), echoes-online.de, Steffen Greiner, January 18th 2008
- ^ Filmkritik , critic.de, Thorsten Funke, October 28, 2008
- ↑ Filmkritik sr-online.de, Daniel Schwan, January 18, 2008
- ^ Film review , programmkino.de, David Siems
- ^ Film review, cinefacts.de, Anke Herrmann
- ↑ Tim Sünderhauf: The tears of my mother. In: PCGames.de, formerly Widescreen. November 3, 2008, accessed July 27, 2019 .
- ^ Film review, tip-berlin.de, HB, KI
- ↑ movie review kinozeit.de, Joachim Kurz
- ↑ Film review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), computerbild.de
- ^ Press release from the Wiesbaden film evaluation office