Clear to cloudy (film)
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| Original title | Clear to cloudy |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Marco Petry |
| script | Axel Staeck |
| production |
Markus Welke , Henning Ferber , Oliver Berben |
| music |
Lorenz Dangel , Tobias Kuhn |
| camera | Jan Fehse |
| cut | Marco Pav D'Auria |
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Heiter bis wolkig is a German tragic comedy by Marco Petry from 2012 . The film is based on a script by Axel Staeck and is about the young canteen cook Tim, who pretends to be terminally ill, only to end up with the speech therapist Marie and through this gets to know her sister Edda, who has cancer and who only has a few months to live.
The feature film was produced by Film1 production in co-production with SevenPictures Film and Constantin Film and shot between August and September 2011 in Cologne and the surrounding area. Max Riemelt , Anna Fischer , Jessica Schwarz and Elyas M'Barek can be seen in the leading roles . In Germany, Heiter bis wolkig was released for public screening on September 6, 2012, where the film received mostly positive reviews. The German film and media rating awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”. The title song Gesucht und fand was composed and produced by the sons of Mannheim exclusively for the production.
action
Tim and Can are not only best friends, but also colleagues who work as cooks together in a Cologne kitchen. In their spare time, the two of them enjoy towing women away using unusual approaches. One evening Tim chooses the young speech therapist Marie to be the "victim" of one of his scams: At the bar counter, Can tells her that his friend has an inoperable brain tumor and that he wants nothing more than to sleep with a woman one last time before it with him comes to an end. Marie is affected by Tim's tragic fate, but is persuaded by Tim to spend the evening together. After a detour to a party in a Greek restaurant, it ends in Marie's apartment. In bed, however, the two are interrupted: Marie has to take care of her sister Edda, with whom she shares the apartment and who vomits in the bathroom. Tim finally learns from Marie that Edda is indeed terminally ill: she has terminal lymph gland cancer and can only live a few months. With a heavy heart, Marie sends Tim home.
Tim, who cannot forget Marie, is plagued by a guilty conscience because of his tasteless lie. With the intention of apologizing and clearing up the matter, he finally shows up at her door two days later with flowers. Marie has to go to work, however, and before Tim can clear the table she suggests that he join her sister Edda in the meantime. However, she does not feel like lying in bed and persuades Tim to go on a trip. They finally stop in front of the flower shop where Edda used to work as a florist - until her boss dismissed her because of her illness. Edda, who has sworn revenge, gains entry to the shop and lets four goats into the premises, which unceremoniously poke at the stored flowers. Tim is not comfortable with the unpredictable Edda. Amused, however, the two of them watch how Edda's former boss unexpectedly finds the animals in her shop and flies in disbelief.
Edda, whom Tim has declared her accomplice, finally persuades him the next day at work to accompany her to an agreed bank appointment. However, this only serves as a pretext for another act of revenge: On site they meet Thomas, Edda's former fiancé, who left them overwhelmed after their diagnosis. In his office, Edda takes off her jacket in the middle of a conversation and presents Tim and Thomas with an explosive device that she has strapped around her upper body. Angry, she threatens to ignite it. While Thomas is trembling for his life, Edda is clearly enjoying the situation. When Edda “ignites” it by pulling on a string, the supposed explosive device turns out to be a kind of money box for collected coins.
Edda has of course long since figured out Tim due to a trick question she asked him about his cancer. She persuades him to take a trip in the car, during which she deliberately provokes a near-accident. She collapses and is brought to the university hospital by Tim. There she confronts Tim with the truth. Marie and Tim get very close emotionally. But Can wants to continue the old life with Tim. Edda still wants to “experience something” and has to be picked up by Tim at a police station because of a minor drug offense. To get himself an adrenaline rush, Edda also instigates a fight with a pimp, in which Tim feels compelled to intervene.
The prognoses for Edda are still devastating. The three of Marie, Tim and Edda go for a chic meal for the “small thing” of 580 euros. Marie and Tim seem to let Edda sit on the bill so that she has to kick the bill and experience an adrenaline rush herself. Tim learned from Edda to make his dreams come true. Therefore, he wants to open a restaurant with Can, which the latter refuses without understanding. Edda has another, this time psychological breakdown. Tim is serious and quits his job to set up his own restaurant. He gets into an argument with Can about this and causes a rear-end collision with sheet metal damage.
Tim fulfills Edda one wish from her list. After she has been styled, he goes with her to a gay and lesbian bar and gives her the acquaintance of a woman. In return, Edda persuades her sister that Tim's “brain tumor” has healed spontaneously. Marie and Tim sleep together. Can has got himself a new buddy with whom he revives his old scam of teasing women. Accidentally, however, the new buddy speaks to Marie of all people, who suddenly realizes that Tim has repeatedly lied to her. She runs away.
Tim breaks into the flower shop again with Edda, her last place of work. Edda wants to tie her own wreath, and Marie helps her with it. Edda ends up in the palliative care unit and receives morphine. She says goodbye first to Tim and then to her sister. Edda dies and is buried. Marie and Tim visit her individually at her grave. Marie is busy with her grief and cannot forgive Tim for a long time. Tim takes out a loan to help make his restaurant dream come true. He gets along with Can again.
Six weeks after Edda's death, her doctor comes to Marie to hand her a last letter from Edda, as agreed. Marie then visits Tim in his restaurant and they make up. Now it also becomes clear what Edda wrote in her letter.
production
The shooting took place from August 2 to September 22, 2011 in Cologne and the surrounding area, including the Belgian Quarter in the southern part of Cologne's Neustadt-Nord and the Rheinauhafen . The original title of the film was incurably in love , initially in Berlin as the setting for the framework . Since the story was not clearly located in the script, the choice finally fell on the Rhine metropolis, which, according to producer Marcus Welke, offered much more unspoiled motifs and, in contrast to Berlin or Munich with its diverse nightlife, had the desired big city flair. In favor of the original motifs, studio recordings were avoided as much as possible during filming. The locations used were personally selected by director Marco Petry and cameraman Jan Fehse.
The comedy was produced by Film1 Produktion in co-production with Constantin Film and SevenPictures Film, a subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media . In addition to Welke, Henning Ferber and Oliver Berben also acted as producers . Stefan Gärtner and Joachim Kosack were responsible for the co-production , while Martin Moszkowicz joined the project as executive producer . Both the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the Filmförderungsanstalt , the German Filmförderfonds and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern supported the production financially.
reception
criticism
Björn Becher from Filmstarts found that director Marco Petry, with cheerful to cloudy, fully exploits his strengths: “The precise look at the inner workings of his characters, the wonderful humor that is sometimes silly, but often biting and angry, and above all the ability to bring unadulterated great emotions to the screen make this wonderful mixture of comedy and drama one of the best films of the cinema year ”. In his review, he particularly highlighted Jessica Schwarz's performance, whose portrayal of Edda, who was marked by her illness, “got under the skin” and was “responsible for the gag fireworks for a long time”. “With bright to cloudy , Marco Petry succeeds in a really big hit. A wonderful film: hilarious, really bad, touching, dramatic, makes you laugh and cry! ”.
The online magazine Kino.de judged in its criticism: “History and characters move between laughing and crying. Marco Petry manages to confidently avoid the pitfalls of embarrassment and pathos when it comes to the subject of death and illness, his targeted pressure on the lacrimal gland stops at the right moment, the mix of comedy and tragedy is well dosed. Even if he sometimes turns the wheel of the junk, he keeps his balance, his specialty is the good mood melancholy [...] With conventional aesthetics and a slight joke, romantic factor and a pinch of seriousness, "cheerful to cloudy" should grab the audience. "
Die Welt wrote that the film was reminiscent of American series productions such as The Big C because of its courage to “integrate a serious topic into a lightweight entertainment format”and continued to conclude: “Of course, the balance between comedy and sadness doesn't quite work; especially towards the end,bright to cloudy is clearly more clouded with tears than prust-funny. The fact that Marco Petry's film is forgiven for certain clichés is largely thanks to Jessica Schwarz. She manages to combine joy and sadness in a credible way. And with this, Schwarz succeeds in this peculiar death comedy that one does not even know about German relationship fluctuations in the evening TV program: a great acting performance. "
Hans-Ulrich Pönack described cheerful to cloudy as "bland title for a truly better German comedy". The film is “touching. Touching. Funny. People-exciting. Amazingly great ”and would be borne above all by his actors, who“ hold up interest and curiosity. Even if the story shakes (too) fatally.
Awards
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”. The jury described the production as a "successful mixture of comedy and tragedy, in which both parts are balanced and the end is anything but predictable [...] Here a difficult topic was taken up sensitively and at the same time entertainingly and it is a stroke of luck for that current German cinema that this film did not fail because of overzealous producers or hesitant sponsors. Cheerful to Cloudy is an excellent example of high-quality entertainment, which is only to be hoped that the audience will not be put off by the seemingly bulky subject, but will instead get involved in this completely different kind of romance, apparently taken from the middle of life ”.
In the 2013 election, Elyas M'Barek was awarded the Jupiter in the “Best German Actor” category for his performance .
success
Heiter bis wolkig premiered on August 21, 2012 in the Cinedom in Cologne and was released for public screening in Germany on September 6, 2012 by its distributor, Constantin Film . After the end of the first screening weekend, the feature film had around 52,000 moviegoers and thus placed fifth on the German cinema charts behind The Expendables 2 , Step Up: Miami Heat , Ted and Total Recall . With a total of 310,864 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy was placed in the top 30 of the most-watched German cinema productions of 2012.
Web links
- Partly sunny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Bright to cloudy: press kit . Mickey07.com. Retrieved on September 16, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A question from Martin Moszkowicz: The right mix makes it . In: Mediabiz . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^ Björn Becher: Heiter bis wolkig> Filmstarts criticism . In: film starts . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Bright to cloudy - criticism . Kino.de. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Bright to cloudy keeps the right balance . In: The world . Welt.de. September 6, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Pönack: Cinema expert Hans-Ulrich Pönack on 'Heiter bis Wolkig' . Speeradio.de. September 6, 2012. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Clear to cloudy . In: German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . FBW-Filmbassy.com. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Jupiter Awards presented in Berlin . In: Focus . Focus.com. April 12, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2013.
- ↑ Bright sunshine, brilliant leading actors and standing ovations . In: ots . Presseportal.de. August 22, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ "The Expendables 2" stays at the top of the cinema charts . In: world . Welt.de. September 10, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
