Get Lucky - Sex changes everything

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Movie
Original title Get Lucky - Sex changes everything
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Ziska Riemann
script Ziska Riemann,
Madeleine Fricke ,
Oneil Sharma
production Anatol Nitschke
music Michael Beckmann ,
Florian Tessloff
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Florian Miosge
occupation

Get Lucky - Sex changes everything is a comedy film by Ziska Riemann that was released in German cinemas on September 26, 2019.

action

Six young people spend their holidays on the Baltic Sea. During the turbulent vacation by the sea with lots of sun and beach, they experience their first love, their first sex and everything that can go wrong. They are staying with Ellen, the aunt of two of the teenagers, who as a sex counselor answers questions they would never ask their parents.

production

Directed by Ziska Riemann , who developed the script together with Madeleine Fricke , Oneil Sharma and with the participation of the author and sex therapist Ann-Marlene Henning , who practiced in Hamburg and who took on the role of Ellen's friend in the film. Henning had also published a book called Sex Changes Everything - Advanced Education .

The film received a grant of 275,000 euros from the Filmförderungsanstalt . In addition, the DFFF has funded German film funding in the amount of 375,000 euros. Nordmedia sponsored the production with 150,000 euros.

Florian Tessloff composed the film music .

The premiere took place on September 15, 2019 as part of the Hamburg Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on September 26, 2019.

reception

Age rating

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 12. The statement of reasons for the release states that the first half of the film contains some rough, sexualized dialogues as well as implied sexual acts, such as " masturbating a bet " between the boys, but that such scenes are compensated for by the second half of the film, as this is a more serious, clearly have a pedagogical character with positive messages: "The immature behavior in the first half therefore also serves to show the positive development and the maturation process of the young people, who ultimately find harmonious and respectful relationships."

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends the film for the subjects biology, German, ethics, religion, art, philosophy, psychology and social studies and offers materials for the film for teaching purposes. There it says, among other things, in the course of the film, the thoughts of the young people on the subject of sex were repeatedly reformulated into questions and discussed together in the group and commented on by the sexologist. The film could be a good introduction to classic sexual education in class.

criticism

Film critic Hans-Ulrich Pönack was horrified by Get Lucky and described it as the “most unsavory German shit house annual film ever”, “Schoolgirl Boy Report 2019”. He also described the film with the words: “On a primitive level that is neither funny nor original, funny or provocative. It's just terribly boring. As an inconceivable annoyance at the cinema: stupid, embarrassing, tasteless. Terribly amateurish in presentation and practice. The annoyance is enormous. Not because of uninterrupted banality and stupidity. To permanent embarrassment. ”In the end he gave 0 out of 5 possible points.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Get Lucky - Sex changes everything . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 190619 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Get Lucky - Sex changes everything . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b New projects by Ziska Riemann and Haifaa Al Mansour - FFA awards around 2.9 million euros for 15 film projects and scripts. In: ffa.de, June 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Books. In: STILL | Advice on relationship issues. Retrieved September 28, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ The end of shooting for "Get Lucky". Accessed October 4, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ WORLD: German premiere of “Get Lucky - Sex changes everything” . September 16, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed October 4, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved June 18, 2019.
  8. ↑ https://www.spio-fsk.de/?seitid=2737&tid=469&Vers=1&FGID=5228&tab=1
  9. ↑ Get Lucky - Sex changes everything. In: kinofenster.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ GET LUCKY - SEX CHANGES EVERYTHING • Pönis Filmclub. In: Pönis Filmclub. September 24, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 (German).