Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2001)
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| Original title | Happiness is a warm gun |
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| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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| Director | Thomas Imbach |
| script | Thomas Imbach, Jürg Hassler , Peter Purtschert |
| production | Thomas Imbach |
| music | Sir Henry |
| camera | Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach |
| cut | Jürg Hassler, Thomas Imbach |
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Happiness Is a Warm Gun is a feature film by the Swiss director Thomas Imbach , which stages the life and death story of the lovers Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian . Between seemingly documentary scenes and fictional drama, as well as archive material, the story of a love story is rolled up from its end. Happiness Is a Warm Gun premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2001. The film won the 2001 Zurich Film Prize and was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize for best feature film and best actress.
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Reviews
“'The ball,' says Petra Kelly of this film, 'managed to push everything away with a very warm sensation within a very short time, it made room in me and that was probably the moment when I took off for a moment.' About like this The images of Thomas Imbach's film also want to behave in their ruthlessness to push everything aside, including what is known about this historical and mythical couple. This film watches death from within at work. In the long moment of death, this ego wonders. Not about death, but about not being able to live. Not about the futility, but about the fact that all this exhausting effort has not brought the world and this self one millimeter closer. At this point, and not just in the documentary and memory scraps, Happiness Is A Warm Gun is also as radically political as it is radically physical. "
“Imbach's film is certainly more clearly an interpretation, a variation on a true story, as he himself says in the opening credits. But an attitude becomes noticeable. He doesn't shy away from the ugly sides of his character, but something else is more important. His film is also a declaration of love, the two protagonists, but especially Petra, are beautiful. In his typical detailed shots, which let the viewer perceive things that are otherwise ignored for granted, he admires Petra's lips, the small hollow in her neck. Her tenderness when she wordlessly and carefully washes the exhausted device that stands naked in front of her in a scene. "
"Imbach staged a version of the tragedy that shows the human-all-too-human extras behind the main actors on the political stage."
“In 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun' the Swiss experimented with unreal leaps in time between past and future, this world and the hereafter, as we know them from David Lynch's thrillers. A captivating, intense chamber play with unusual perspectives that will hopefully find a rental. "
"In a brilliant montage, Imbach extends Kelly and Bastian's life to the present day, bombarding his audience with images and sounds ... cinema in the best sense that teaches you to see and hear."
“Their unconditional and at the same time constantly reflected game creates a new, separate dimension of reality for the film - fragmentation and reconstruction, so to speak, in a reconciling way. However, it is also astonishing how Thomas Imbach managed to bring his actors to “controlled identification” in his first actual directorial work with actors, according to the theses he formulated: “Tell your actor who he is, but not what he ought to do ”and“ every emotion of the actor is that of the character. There are no breaks in shooting »Bold words, indeed."
Web links
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun at filmportal.de
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun at swissfilms.ch
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun in the Lexicon of International Films
- Happiness Is a Warm Gun in the online movie database
- Official website