Feels like mid-twenties
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Feels like mid-twenties |
| Original title | While We're Young |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
U o. A. JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Noah Baumbach |
| script | Noah Baumbach |
| production | Noah Baumbach, Eli Bush , Scott Rudin , Lila Yacoub |
| music | James Murphy |
| camera | Sam Levy |
| cut | Jennifer Lame |
| occupation | |
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Feels in mid-twenties (Original title: While We're Young ) is an American tragic comedy with Ben Stiller , Naomi Watts , Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver from 2014 . Directed by Noah Baumbach , who also produced the film and wrote the script .
action
The once successful documentary filmmaker Josh has been struggling for years to complete a film critical of capitalism. The man in his mid-forties leads an aging middle-class marriage with Cornelia in New York . The fact that a befriended couple of the same age has a child allows them to examine their own attitude towards children. One day Josh meets the much younger hipster couple Jamie and Darby. They admire him, especially since Jamie is working on a documentary himself and sees Josh as a role model. They become friends, and inspired by the two of them, Josh and Cornelia feel themselves in their mid-twenties again until reality catches up with them again. At the same time, it is becoming more and more apparent that Jamie wanted to take advantage of Josh to make a career as a documentary filmmaker.
background
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 . The premiere in the US cinemas was on March 27, 2015, in Germany on July 30, 2015. Noah Baumbach had already shot The Squid and the Whale , Greenberg and Frances Ha , among others .
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is from Antonio Vivaldi , James Murphy and others.
| Composer / artist | title |
|---|---|
| James Murphy | Only The Stars Above Welcome Me Home |
| James Murphy | Golden Years |
| James Murphy | We used to dance |
| Paul McCartney & Wings | Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five |
| Survivor | Eye of the Tiger |
| Haim | Falling Duke Dumont Remix |
| Lionel Richie | All Night Long All Night |
| Danny Kaye | The Inch Worm |
| A Tribe Called Quest | Buggin 'out |
| Foreigner | Waiting for a girl like you |
| David Bowie | Golden Years |
Reviews
- Peter Bradshaw told The Guardian that the film would be excruciatingly sad if it weren't for fun too.
- Richard Corliss said on Time's website that watching the film was a great time.
- Martin Schwickert wrote on Zeit Online that seldom has a film "worked out the nuances of self-denial that go hand in hand with an unacknowledged midlife crisis in such a precise and humorous way".
- FAZ column correspondent Andreas Kilb complained that director Baumbach had the "ideal actors for his generation comedy at hand" for his comedy, but he did not let them loose on each other, he just took them for a walk.
- "There is no smarter entertaining this summer," said Hannah Pylarczyk on Spiegel Online ; Director Baumbach also skilfully avails himself of changing sources of humor.
- In the culture magazine Perlentaucher , Rajko Burchardt regretted that "the interest in people who can not help but stand in each other's way, which was always evident in the director's previous films, has given way to a strange old man's encyclopedia".
- At Rotten Tomatoes , the film received 83 percent of the critics, while it was only 55 percent of the audience.
- From Moviepilot 6.5 points were awarded on a scale from 0 to 10 points on average.
Web links
- While We're Young in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Feels like mid-twenties in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for feeling in your mid-twenties . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2015 (PDF; test number: 152 080 K).
- ↑ Age rating for feeling in mid-twenties . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ While We're Young review - a fine bromance , review by Peter Bradshaw on theguardian.com, April 2, 2015.
- ↑ While We're Young: Can Ben Stiller Be a Happy 20-Something? , Review on time.com, April 11, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Hipsters are only bad people , Die Zeit online from July 30, 2015.
- ↑ The virtuoso of the crisis stumbles , faz.net, July 30, 2015.
- ↑ "Feels in mid-twenties": The smartest comedy of the summer , Spiegel Online, July 30, 2015.
- ↑ Freely rotating machismo , Perlentaucher, July 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Feels like mid-twenties" on Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ "Feels like mid-twenties" on Moviepilot