Me and You (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Me and you |
| Original title | Io e te |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| script |
Niccolò Ammaniti Umberto Contarello Francesca Marciano Bernardo Bertolucci |
| production | Mario Gianani |
| music | Franco Piersanti |
| camera | Fabio Cianchetti |
| cut | Jacopo Quadri |
| occupation | |
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Me and You is an Italian feature film by Bernardo Bertolucci from 2012. In the chamber play-like narrative based on the novel You and Me (2010) by Niccolò Ammaniti , two young people spend a few days together isolated from society. Bertolucci takes up several motifs from his earlier works and leaves the end open. In over thirty years, Me and You was the first film Bertolucci made in Italian again.
action
14-year-old Lorenzo, who lives with his mother and whose father has moved out, is going through puberty. The loner often wears headphones and defies the mother. When the school class arrives at the ski camp, he fakes his mother into taking part. In fact, he nests himself in the basement of the house with provisions for seven days and his computer. The room is dirty but has light and a sink with running water. Here the young person listens to music and reads books. The ants he watches in a glass box are his only company. The calm he found is suddenly disturbed when his 25-year-old half-sister Olivia, whom he hardly knows, appears. She currently has no place to stay and threatens to blow his hiding place if he does not tolerate her there.
His parents did not tell Lorenzo that Olivia was a drug addict. She intends to get off drugs; In a few days a friend is supposed to pick her up and take her to a farm where she can look after horses. Soon she is writhing with withdrawal symptoms, which Lorenzo is initially indifferent to. But to make the time more bearable for her, he sets off at night to the nursing home where his grandmother lives and gets sleeping pills from there. When he returns, he is sitting with Olivia Ferdinando, an older man with whom she used to have a relationship. She called him because Lorenzo hadn't come back for a long time. Before Lorenzo drives him out, he buys one of her photographic works and gives her money for it. The half-siblings who have the same father develop confidential conversations. Lorenzo learns from Olivia that she had to leave the house because she hit his mother on the head with a rock and seriously injured her. And that she used to work as a photo and video artist, but has given up because her addiction has made her insensitive. Ferdinando would be ready to take her back if Olivia manages to get out of the addiction. Lorenzo asks Olivia to promise him never to use drugs again; she agrees and makes him promise not to hide anymore in the future. The very next night, Olivia buys a packet of drugs, which she puts in the cigarette pack without consuming it. The next morning Lorenzo and Olivia leave the cellar, unaware that he slips back the pack of cigarettes that she left lying around. Olivia goes to meet her boyfriend, and Lorenzo goes home in a good mood.
background
Bernardo Bertolucci was unable to make a film for nine years due to a back pain. The plot of the novel, which is concentrated in one place, suited him. He explained that the claustrophobia of the basement had turned into "claustrophilia". His earlier works echo in the basic dramaturgical situation as well as in some details, such as the people withdrawn from the street into a room ( The Last Tango in Paris , 1972, and The Dreamers , 2003), or in the restaurant scene the verbal incest between mother and son ( La Luna , 1979).
In one scene, Lorenzo and Olivia, entwined, dance to ragazzo solo, ragazza sola by David Bowie , an Italian version of his song Space Oddity , which is added to the credits in the English version.
Me and You had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2012 out of competition. The following year, the film was nominated in several categories for the Italian Film Industry Prize, David di Donatello , including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress.
criticism
Michael Ranze judged in the film bulletin that the film cleverly creates suspense through repeated frames. In addition, he mentioned "excellent performances of his two main actors - especially the only fourteen-year-old Jacopo Olmo Antinori impresses with his directness and naturalness". Antinori plays "wonderfully cranky and cautious", said Stefan Volk from the film service . The eroticism between the half-siblings remains subliminal. That was “a film that has fallen out of time in the best sense of the word”, spoke of a “small, remote cinematic masterpiece” with atmospheric magic and “with magical glow”.
Ranze said that the items that were once considered valuable and now forgotten may represent the chaos of the country, "but that is not certain, especially since the Italians have their own, unimaginable way of dealing with the chaos." , all that “junk and trinkets form an allegorical retreat. A surreal underworld, if you like, as the architecture of the pubescent or the collective Italian subconscious ”.
Web links
- I and You in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for me and you . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 452 K).
- ↑ a b c Michael Ranze: Io e te. In: Filmbulletin , No. 7/2013, p. 29
- ↑ Stefan Volk: fallen out of time. In: Film-dienst , No. 12/2013; Michael Ranze: Io e te. In: Filmbulletin , No. 7/2013, p. 29
- ↑ a b Stefan Volk: fallen out of time . In: Film-dienst , No. 12/2013