Fado (film)

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Movie
Original title Fado
Country of production Germany , Portugal
original language German , English , Portuguese
Publishing year 2016
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK from 16
Rod
Director Jonas Rothlaender
script Jonas Rothlaender ,
Sebastian Bleyl
production Luis Singer ,
Dennis Schanz ,
Ole Lohmann ,
Tara Biere (producer)
camera Alexander Hasskerl
cut Dietmar Kraus
occupation

Fado is a German - Portuguese film from 2016. The love and jealousy drama is the first feature film by director Jonas Rothlaender , who wrote the screenplay together with Sebastian Bleyl . Golo Euler plays Fabian, a doctor from Berlin who follows his ex-partner Doro ( Luise Heyer ) who has emigrated to Lisbon in the hope of being able to revive the relationship.

The premiere took place on January 21, 2016 in the competition of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken, where Rothlaender received the award for best director . Further awards followed, in particular the German Film Critics' Prize for the best feature film debut .

action

During an emergency doctor call, the young Berlin doctor Fabian recognizes an uncanny resemblance to his ex-girlfriend Doro, who is now working as an architect in Lisbon. He then travels to Lisbon to win Doro over again. Doro reacts confused at first, but lets himself into him again.

Fabian decides to stay in Lisbon for a longer period. He finds a job as an emergency doctor for the homeless and learns Portuguese. Meanwhile it becomes clear that Doro had ended the previous relationship because Fabian was obsessively jealous. Although he asserts that he has changed, he quickly shows symptoms of renewed jealousy, especially of Doro's work colleague Francisco. During a trip to the sea, the situation between Fabian and Doro escalates. After dropping her back in Lisbon, Fabian secretly pursues her. He watches as Doro and Francisco meet in front of a hotel and go inside. Fabian is convinced that he can catch the two of them having sex red-handed. However, this turns out to be another one of his jealous delusions that leads Doro to break up with him on the spot.

Seemingly purified, Fabian apologizes to Doro the next day and says goodbye to Berlin. But no sooner has he left her apartment than he watches as the bartender Nuno, whom he has only briefly known, shows up at Doro's entrance and goes inside. This triggers new obsessions in Fabian. He tries to suppress this by sleeping with Anita, a Finnish woman from his language course. But his emotional state eats him up inside; the evening with Anita goes wrong.

Under the pretext of looking for a sweater, Fabian visits Doro again in her apartment. Doro tells him that she doesn't want to see him anymore. Soon afterwards, Fabian is dismissed due to misconduct in the homeless service and Doro tells him by phone that she is with someone else. Fabian sneaks into her apartment at night and hides when Doro and her new partner come home. He watches them having sex, freaks out, knocks them both down and leaves the apartment. In downtown Fabian goes to a disco, where he to What Is Love by Haddaway so excessively dances that he is kicked out. After he continued to provoke the bouncers, they beat him up. With a bloody face he staggers at dawn to the Tajo River , where reality and imagination finally blur: Did an earthquake actually trigger a tsunami wave in the port of Lisbon, or is Fabian just longing for it?

background

title

In addition to the association with Lisbon and its Saudade- imbued art and music styles, the title of the film is also linked to its narrative in a completely different way: "Fado" is a shortened syllable from the first names of the two main characters, Fa bian and Do ro. The movie poster also subtly suggests this by arranging the two syllables one below the other.

music

The film does not use any original compositions, but rather eight pre-existing songs. They are used diegetically , i.e. they come from a sound source within the respective scene. Most of these musical performances are in the bar where Nuno works; but there is also the disco scene in which Fabian dances obsessively to What Is Love by Haddaway .

In Fado , somewhat surprisingly for a film with this title, there is only one Fado song , and that only remotely in the nightly alleys of the Alfama district . This is Sei De Um Rio sung by Camané . The director explains his economical use of Fado music with the need "not to fall into the kitsch and cliché trap":

“When you come to Lisbon as a tourist, a visit to a fado bar is one of the first things that are offered to you as a program there. At the same time, for the Portuguese, Fado music is in a certain way an expression of national pride and thus a highly sensitive topic. "

- Jonas Rothlaender : Fado press booklet.
Overview of all used songs
 title Performer or band  composer
O Velho Coelho Radioactivo João Sarnadas
Certas palavras João Bernardo João Bernardo
Dance With Me Nouvelle Vague Steve Bartor, Brian James
Se eu fosse o Tom Jobim João Bernardo João Bernardo
Be De Um Rio Camané Alain Oulman (music), Pedro Homem de Mello (text)
Deixa-me ir Marcia Marcia
Tardei Rodrigo Amarante Rodrigo Amarante
What is love Haddaway Dee Dee Halligan (music), Junior Torello (text)

reception

Festivals and evaluation

After its world premiere and award at the Max Ophüls Prize in Saarbrücken, Fado had numerous other festival appearances in Germany and abroad. The international premiere took place on January 30th at the Rotterdam Film Festival . At the International Film Festival in Chicago , the film won the Silver Hugo Prize in the New Directors Competition section . It also ran internationally in Jeonju , Krakow , Cluj-Napoca , Moscow , Espoo , Copenhagen , Denver , Goa and Durban .

In Germany, Fado won other awards at the Achtung Berlin film festival (best director) and at the Sehsuchten student film festival in Potsdam (best long feature film). It was also shown at the Filmkunstfest in Schwerin , the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen and the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck .

The German theatrical release followed on September 1, 2016. The TV premiere on ARD was on May 30, 2018.

criticism

The response from German-language film critics was almost consistently positive, which ultimately culminated in several nominations for the 2016 German Film Critics' Prize : Best Feature Film , Best Feature Film Debut and Luise Heyer as Best Actress . Fado won in the Best Feature Film Debut category , which the jury justified:

“Jonas Rothlaender's first full-length film“ Fado ”is the psychogram of a jealous person, the approach to a feeling - precise, emotional and quite ingenious, a very mature debut: Reality and a surreal world of thought are skilfully intertwined, the actors are very confidently guided, every sentence , every scene, every metaphor is right. "

- Julia Teichmann : Excerpt from the laudation at the award ceremony on February 13, 2017.

More reviews:

“Golo Euler's almost boyish features initially speak little of the abyss. This break with expectations in particular turns out to be a stroke of luck: Euler's open, almost innocent face invites identification even more and makes his efforts to overcome jealousy credible. "

- Kaspar Heinrich : The time

“In his film, which is as subtle as it is impressively illustrated, Jonas Rothlaender shows from the beginning that Fabian does not only move romantic indulgence inside. A fundamental uncertainty breaks through in the sudden and uncommented pictures. "

- Oliver Kaever : Spiegel Online

Awards

Prices

  • 37th Max Ophüls Prize 2016: Film Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister for the best director
  • 12. Attention Berlin Film Festival 2016: Best Director & Exberliner Award
  • 45th Sehsucht Film Festival 2016: Best Long Feature Film
  • 52nd Chicago International Film Festival 2016 Silver Hugo in the New Directors Competition category
  • First Steps 2016: No Fear Award for young producers, to the producer of the film, Tara Biere
  • German Film Critics' Prize 2016: Best Feature Film Debut

Nominations

  • 37th Max Ophüls Prize 2016: Best Young Actress (Luise Heyer) and Best Young Actor (Golo Euler)
  • German Film Critics' Prize 2016: Best Feature Film & Best Actress (Luise Heyer)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Fado . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. a b film portal page on Fado. Deutsches Filminstitut (DIF) , accessed on June 3, 2018 .
  3. : Prize Winner 2016. Max Ophüls Prize, January 23, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2018 .
  4. a b c Prize of the German Film Critics 2016, press dossier. Association of German Film Critics (VDFK) , February 13, 2017, accessed on June 3, 2018 .
  5. See film poster for Fado. critic.de, August 30, 2016, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  6. ^ German language press booklet on Fado. StickUp Filmproduktion, December 2015, accessed June 3, 2018 .
  7. Film info: Fado. German Films, accessed on June 9, 2018 .
  8. Fado on jonasrothlaender.com. Jonas Rothlaender, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  9. Fado on hasskerl.de. Alexander Haßkerl, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  10. Fado Festival participation in the section "Bright Future". International Film Festival Rotterdam , accessed June 9, 2018 .
  11. Award Winners. Chicago International Film Festival , October 21, 2016, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  12. Fado festival participation. Transilvania International Film Festival Cluj-Napoca 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  13. Fado festival participation. Durban International Film Festival 2017, July 19, 2017, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  14. Attention Berlin - Prize Winners 2016 . ( Memento from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  15. Winner 2016. (No longer available online.) 45th International Student Film Festival Sehsuchten, April 24, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 9, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / sehsuechte.de  
  16. ^ Film review of Fado: "Demon Jealousy". Kaspar Heinrich in Die Zeit , September 1, 2016, accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  17. Film review of Fado: "Over you the wave". Oliver Kaever in Spiegel Online , September 1, 2016, accessed on June 19, 2018 .
  18. Prize Winner 2016. First Steps, September 19, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2018 .
  19. Press release: Nominees 2016. Max Ophüls Prize, January 7, 2016, accessed on June 3, 2018 .