The Two Lives of Daniel Shore
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| Original title | The Two Lives of Daniel Shore |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Arabic and English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Michael Dreher |
| script | Michael Dreher |
| production |
Rüdiger Heinze , Karim Debbagh , Rainer Kölmel , Stefan Sporbert |
| music | Lorenz Dangel |
| camera | Ian Blumers |
| cut | Wolfgang Weigl |
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The Two Lives of Daniel Shore is a feature film by Michael Dreher . The film had its world premiere on October 29, 2009 at the Hof Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on February 11, 2010. The film is Michael Dreher's cinema debut .
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The 28-year-old German-American Daniel Shore has to watch the murder of the little son of his Moroccan lover Iman while on vacation in Morocco.
Back in Germany, the student, haunted by guilt, moves into his late grandmother's old apartment building. Daniel makes first contacts with the other residents in the dark corridors of the house. He meets a number of strange characters: The former housekeeper Kowalski feels offended by Daniel's lack of attention, the sexually disturbed young singer Elli chases after him and the bank clerk Feige makes himself suspicious from the start with his noticeable reluctance. Then there is a closed boy with sad eyes who lives on the upper floor of the house.
But the images from Morocco never let go of Daniel and more and more overlay the seemingly unreal present. Reality and fantasy begin to blur for Daniel. Slowly he no longer knows how to differentiate between the two. He tries to shake off the shadows of the past that pull him deeper and deeper into a vortex. And all of a sudden, Daniel has another opportunity to save a little boy's life. He doesn't want to fail a second time.
Reviews
“That such a low-dialogue film even manages to be made across the desks of funding bodies and TV editors, a film that is neither art house nor genre, neither amphibious film nor TV movie, completely devoid of milieu, screaming theater mimes or anything else relevant relevance that is so popular with the institutions is a small miracle. For that alone we would like to thank director Dreher and the producers, and above all Ian Blumer for the excellent camera and Lorenz Dangel for the terrific orchestral music. That was already impossibili crema. "
“The montage mixes fragments of the events in Tangier with the increasingly bizarre events in Germany. Of course, this is not about telling a stringent story, but about the pull of an interior movement, about the peeling apart of Daniel's disturbed mind. But after the umpteenth slow tracking shot into the gloom of a hallway, accompanied by threatening string crescendos, the viewer longs for a binding idea. When this comes last and the film then ends abruptly, you feel guided. Despite all of this, The Two Lives of Daniel Shore is a remarkable film, even if it may ultimately fail. He owes this to his extremely self-confident, unique style. The actors do great things too. Kinski succeeds in embodying a character in shock in the face of the incomprehensible with minimal dialogues and without significant facial expressions. Sean Gullette as the mysterious villain still breathes the madness of his mathematician from Pi (1998). So you leave the film with a very special mixture of emotions, a little perplexed by the opaque story, a bit angry because of the difficult to unravel topic, but also fascinated by Dreher's radicalism and independence. A diamond in the rough, a promising debut. "
“In this Kafkaesque-looking film, Nikolai Kinski plays his first major leading role and thus proves that he can step out of the shadow of his infamous father. The prospective PhD student Daniel Shore is not leading two lives, rather past and present or reality and fiction are blurred - depending on the interpretation. "
"Michael Dreher's feature film debut creates a Kafkaesque confusion in which real events and claustrophobic images merge into a confused [ sic !] Horror fantasy [.] Conclusion: extremely cool, well-constructed horror scenario [.]"
Awards
- 2010: Nomination for Wolfgang Weigl for the feature film editing prize at the Film + 10 film festival in Cologne
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- ↑ Release certificate for The Two Lives of Daniel Shore . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 848 K).
- ↑ Sebastian Handke: Splinters in the head - Hofer Filmtage. Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on November 4, 2009 .
- ↑ Nino Klingler: The two lives of Daniel Shore. critic.de, accessed on November 1, 2009 .
- ↑ Silvy Pommerenke: Passive coming to terms with the past. kino-zeit.de , accessed on February 5, 2010 .
- ↑ THE TWO LIVES OF DANIEL SHORE. (No longer available online.) Cinema , formerly the original ; Retrieved February 10, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- The Double Life of Daniel Shore in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official website )