Giraffe (film)

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Movie
Original title giraffe
Country of production Germany , Denmark
original language English , Danish ,
German , Polish
Publishing year 2019
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Anna Sofie Hartmann
script Anna Sofie Hartmann
production Jonas Dornbach ,
Maren Ade ,
Janine Jackowski
camera Jenny Lou Bricks
cut Sofie Steenberger
occupation

Giraffe is a film drama directed by Anna Sofie Hartmann . The German-Danish co-production celebrated its premiere in August 2019 as part of the Locarno Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on August 6, 2020.

action

The young ethnologist Dara is returning to her homeland from Berlin, a rural community on the southern Danish island of Lolland. She wants to document how the lifestyle of the residents is changing now that a tunnel called the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is being built there, which will connect Lolland with Germany. Some people now have to leave their demolished houses, in which their families have lived for generations, according to Birte and Leif, who cannot bear the thought that their yard should give way to the asphalt.

When Dara explored the area, she found photo albums and the diary of a librarian named Agnes Sørenson in a house that had been abandoned for a long time. She begins to wonder what made this woman, who left such personal items behind 15 years ago, disappear from the island without explanation. Dara also meets a young man named Lucek, who is part of a Polish crew who lay fiber optic cables in the area. Most of his colleagues had dreamed of living in Scandinavia with their families. Even if Dara has a friend in Berlin, she is impressed by the directness of the 14-year-old Lucek, but also by his looks.

production

It is a German-Danish co-production by Accomplizen Film , Profile Pictures and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in collaboration with Danmarks Radio . The film received a production grant of 200,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg .

The shooting took place in the Knuthenborg Safari Park on the Danish island of Lolland

The director Anna Sofia Hartmann , who also wrote the script, combined real elements with non-real elements in her film. The eponymous giraffe , in whose eyes the opening scene of the film looks, was taken away from its African homeland and transplanted to Denmark. Hartmann explains, "It seemed like the perfect title for my film because this is a creature that has been removed from its natural habitat, forced to leave its home, and live in a permanent state of confusion." So go In Giraffe , the islanders are also asked to leave their homes to make way for the construction of a tunnel, according to David González in his review in the online cinema magazine Cineuropa , which makes the film a story about displacement, life changes and memory let become. The actual construction of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel , which has been planned for years, is expected to begin in 2020.

Norwegian actress Lisa Loven Kongsli took on the role of Dara. The young Polish actor Jakub Gierszał plays Lucek. Maren Eggert can be seen in the role of the imaginary ferrywoman Käthe.

The shooting took place from August 8 to September 25, 2018 on the Danish island of Lolland, here in the Knuthenborg Safari Park , and in Berlin.

The world premiere took place in August 2019 at the Locarno Film Festival . In September 2019 there was a performance at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section. At the beginning of October 2019 it was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival . At the end of March and beginning of April 2020 it will be presented as part of the New Directors / New Films series, a joint film festival of the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The theatrical release in Germany took place on August 6, 2020. In September 2020, the film will be presented at the Atlanta Film Festival.

reception

Reviews

In his article in the online cinema magazine Cineuropa , David González writes that the giraffe explores the ephemeral nature of our living conditions and draws our attention to the holes in our local memories. The film raises the question of whether, in this modern world, where our connections to certain places seem so easily broken, it is interpersonal relationships that hold our own lives together.

In the review by epd Film it is said that Anna Sofie Hartmann tells in Giraffe about the things that will disappear forever. At the same time, this sober protocol of an affair proves to be a concise analysis of human relationships in times of complete economization of life.

Philipp Schwarz from Spiegel Online writes that Hartmann's film also shows what a profoundly paradoxical undertaking it is when Dara follows her impulse of curious research and wants to examine moments of passion, but detaches them from the context of everyday life: “You separate them Separate things from each other in order to let their inner relationships become visible, the world is kept at a distance in order to get closer to it. This inner instability becomes particularly evident when Dara stumbles upon the many traces of a former resident in an abandoned farm. Dara literally buries herself in the diary entries, photos and small belongings of this Agnes Sørensen and uses this wealth of evidence to try to penetrate the living core of an alien existence. ”In Hartmann's film, the characters wanted to establish contact with the reality surrounding them by methodically looking at the world , so Schwarz, and yet they just sink deeper and deeper into their own feelings and thoughts.

Awards

Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2019

Viennale 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for giraffe . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 198049 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Jay Weissberg: Review: 'Giraffe'. In: Variety, August 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/378888
  4. ↑ https://www.programmkino.de/content/Filmkritiken/giraffe/
  5. ↑ 72nd Locarno Film Festival - press kit. In: locarnofestival.ch. Accessed November 7, 2019 (PDF; 13.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Alfonso Rivera: San Sebastián tops off its surprising Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section. In: cineuropa.org, 23 August 2019.
  7. ↑ Giraffe. In: filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  8. ^ FLC and MoMA announce the complete lineup for the 49th annual New Directors / New Films. In: filmlinc.org, March 5, 2020.
  9. ↑ Start dates in Germany. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 6, 2020.
  10. ↑ Atlanta Film Festival + Creative Conference Reveals New Dates and Official Selections for 2020 Event. In: atlantafilmfestival.com, March 26, 2020.
  11. ↑ https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/giraffe
  12. ↑ Philipp Schwarz: An island comes into the archive. In: Spiegel Online, August 6, 2020.
  13. ↑ Barbara Schuster: "Space Dogs" wins Vienna Film Prize. In: Blickpunkt: Film, November 6, 2019.