You ... me too

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Movie
Original title You ... me too
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1986
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Helmut Berger ,
Dani Levy ,
Anja Franke
script Dani Levy,
Anja Franke
production Martin Schmassmann
music Niki Reiser
camera Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut Bettina Boehler
occupation

You me too (reference title: can you like me ) is a German black and white film from 1986 by Dani Levy and Anja Franke , his partner at the time. Helmut Berger acted as co-director and also worked on the script, which Franke and Levy wrote together. The couple also starred as Juliet and Romeo. Levy's debut film is also his first collaboration with Franke.

action

The street musicians Romeo and Juliet live in Berlin, their story based on William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet is retold here. While Romeo plays the guitar, Juliet plays the saxophone. Your getting to know each other is determined by the fact that one wants to drown out the other. But they soon fall in love with each other, but cannot save this love into everyday life, although they get into strange situations together, including guests at an unusual golden wedding . They also try to convince their parents how special their connection is. But the initially heartwarming harmony of the newly in love is lost and what remains are arguments that are often hurtful. Julia says she no longer feels the love that should be like that between Philemon and Baucis .

When the two of them are embroiled in a mysterious murder case involving a Super 8 film , they first wander through the city alone, sleep on the street and dream of being by the sea, but then find each other again and flee together over the roofs of Berlin. In this confused situation, Romeo then wants to know from Juliet whether she would like to marry him, which completely upsets her, but then tearfully affirms. When they are shot while trying to escape, they still live on.

Production, success, publication

After years of "patient perseverance", the film was made on a small budget by Kangaroo-Film GmbH (Berlin) and Swiss television for German and Romansh Switzerland (SF DRS, Zurich) and the Zurich film collective (Zurich) in Berlin in the summer of 1985 realized and was an instant success. It was screened at various festivals, including the Semaine de la Critique during the Cannes International Film Festival . In the Moviemento film theater in Berlin, Du mich also became a cult film and was in the program for over two years. The projectionist at the time, Tom Tykwer, was so enthusiastic about Levy's film that he screened it several times. This first contact between the two men later led to the fact that they founded the production company X Films Creative Pool together.

You me too was for Niki Reiser , the composer of the film music, his first success in the German-speaking area. Since then Reiser has provided all of Dani Levy's films with music. The music soloists were: Dave Petersen ( tenor saxophone ), Thomas Moeckel ( trumpet ), David Klein (drums, bass), Olivier Gagneux ( percussin ), Tibor Elekes ( double bassist ), Niki Reiser ( piano , soprano saxophone ).

Du mich was also funded by the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin) and the Berliner Filmförderung .

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film, which advertised itself with the words "a film about love and corpses, funny, tender and black and white", premiered on October 2, 1986 in Moviemento in Berlin. In France it was published in a dubbed version on December 9, 1987 under the title Toi et moi aussi . It was also shown in the USA, the title You Love Me Too there , alternatively Same to You .

On February 9, 2007 Du mich was also released on DVD by Filmgalerie 451.

criticism

In the Evangelical Press Service (EPD Film 11/86) Dietrich Kuhlbrodt wrote , “Nothing [is] asserted in this film. With naive charm, he spins the day-to-day life of those who live on its fringes. Black and white and atmospheric and cheeky and poetic, held together not least by the rousing music ”by Niki Reiser. The film is "freshly shot" [...] and has "a quality that one looks for in vain in many politically and academically mature films"

The Berlin city illustrator tip rated the film as a "completely relaxed and yet detailed comedy" that was "a small but hearty debut". Filmgalerie 451 found: “A charming and self-deprecating big city romance”.

Willy Theobald from the magazine Der Spiegel differentiated: “'Are we going to split up or will we?' is the constantly varied theme of a tour de farce between late puberty, student mess and the attempt to make a film. ”It was also said that Anja Frankes and Dani Levy's“ semi-dilettantism give film its aura ”. The talk is of a "sympathetic first work", which came about "only after massive commitment of the initiators". However, there could be no question of "a thoroughly composed action [...], one event following the next like a patchwork."

Kino.de recalled that the film, shot in black and white, was "treated as out of breath in the 80s" and that "Berlin's big city odyssey was full of original staging ideas" and of "authentic dialogues and the two vital main actors “Live.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dani Levy biography adS filmportal.de
  2. ↑ You, too, adS filmfest-braunschweig.de. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  3. ↑ You me too DVD adS filmportal.de
  4. ↑ Dietrich Kuhlbrodt : You me too criticism adS filmzentrale.com. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ You me too adS Filmgalerie 451
  6. ↑ Romance in the living room - you me too. Feature film by Anja Franke and Dani Levy In: Der Spiegel No. 44/1986 from October 27, 1986.
  7. ↑ You me too, criticism of adS kino.de (with trailer). Retrieved August 29, 2017.
  8. ^ Piffl-Medien on Levy's film Joshua
  9. ^ Filmportal.de on Dany Levy