I want you

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TV movie
Original title I want you
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Rainer Kaufmann
script Kathrin Richter ,
Jürgen Schlagenhof
production Kerstin Schmidbauer
music Verena Marisa
camera Klaus Eichhammer
cut Christel Suckow
occupation

I want you is a German love drama by director Rainer Kaufmann about two middle-aged straight women who discover their love for one another. The television film , shot in 2013 , was shown at the Munich Film Festival in 2014 and first broadcast on Arte in 2015 .

action

Marie and Bernd, both architects with a joint company, are a happy middle-aged couple with two teenage children, Lilly and Jonas. One day they get a visit from Dom, a former admirer of Marie's, and his partner Ayla. The two couples spend a weekend together in a weekend hut owned by Marie and Bernd. While the men go sailing, the two women come closer to each other through a spontaneous kiss from Ayla, which Marie returns. Marie is initially completely irritated and explains to Ayla over dinner for the two couples in private that she is not a lesbian. Ayla says this about herself too.

Shortly thereafter, Ayla picks Marie up from the office to help her choose the dress for her wedding to Dom. They are taken to a party by a friend of Ayla, where Ayla and Marie dance together and kiss each other again. Completely confused, Marie flees and goes home. After an argument with her daughter Lilly and her boyfriend Fridy, she decidedly goes to Ayla, who lives in the neighborhood, and has sex with her. A few days later, Marie explains to Ayla that she has no interest in giving up her family for Ayla and that the affair is over.

Ayla, meanwhile pregnant by Dom, comes to the hospital with a fit of weakness. Marie is worried and goes to her immediately with Bernd. When the men leave the hospital room, the two women meet again and kiss. Bernd becomes suspicious and asks Marie if she loves Ayla. She disgusts this and uses Bernd's affair with Vicky, an employee of the architecture firm, as a means to distract from herself. Marie happened to see Bernd and Vicky having sex in the office in the evening.

Ayla and Dom get married. At the wedding party, the men get drunk while Marie and Ayla dance together and then kiss in a moment believed to be unobserved. However, Jonas became suspicious of the intense dance between the two women and watched the kiss. The two women later withdraw and have sex together again. After Ayla and Dom are back from their honeymoon, Marie feels jealous of him and confronts Ayla. Both women admit that they missed each other and meet again to make love. However, they also realize that they have to reveal themselves to their husbands, but suppress that.

At the following celebration on Christmas Eve, at which both couples and the two children are present, there is a scandal. Since Jonas is not allowed to visit friends again, he accuses the adults of lying and reveals the love affair between the two women. He escapes from the house to Marie's father, while the two women admit their relationship with their husbands and declare their mutual love. Bernd and Dom react shocked, confused and angry. The next day, Marie visits Jonas with her father and asks him to come back home. She explains that she is glad that the truth is now on the table, that she has fallen in love with Ayla. But she also confirms that she does not want to part with Bernd.

At Christmas lunch with Bernd's parents, Marie talks about moving into a semi-detached house with Ayla and Dom. Bernd reacts to this suggestion with anger and tells Marie that Ayla and Dom will move to London. A discussion ensues between the two women in which Ayla explains that she has no strength for a double existence and that it is impossible for both couples to live together. She had decided on Dom and was going to London with him. Marie remains desperate and lovesick.

Shortly afterwards, she notices that Ayla and Dom want to take a taxi to the airport. Ayla looks longingly in the direction of Marie's and Bernd's house despite her decision. Marie also leaves the house, although Bernd tries to stop her. But Marie explains to him that she can no longer be with him and drives to the airport. Shortly before Ayla's departure, she sees them in front of the security gate. Both women rush towards each other and hug each other with the words “I want you!”.

background

The film was produced by Constantin Television GmbH on behalf of WDR and Arte and shot in November and December 2013 in Berlin and the surrounding area. The premiere was on July 2, 2014 at the Munich Film Festival . The first broadcast on Arte ran on February 13, 2015. The first-time appearance in the first on October 21, 2015 reached 3.96 million viewers.

Soundtrack

In addition to the film music composed by Verena Marisa, the following pieces of music can be heard in the film:

Reviews

This section consists only of a cunning collection of quotes from movie reviews. Instead, a summary of the reception of the film should be provided as continuous text, which can also include striking quotations, see also the explanations in the film format .

“Thirty years ago you could have imagined this flick with Cathérine Deneuve and Isabelle Adjani . However, Ina Weisse and Erika Marozsán are more than equal replacements. "

- Ulrich Feld : Frankfurter Neue Presse of October 22, 2015

“Two straight women experience love and lust together, but continue to maneuver through their everyday lives as if they could reconcile everything, their mutual affection and desire, the men, the apparently ideal family world with children and in-laws. [...] Nothing is right in this middle class idyll, yet everyone is fighting honestly to maintain it. 'I want you' also tells of the futile longing for harmony. Marie wants everything, Ayla, her child and her own family. "

- Thomas Gehringer : Der Tagesspiegel from February 15, 2015

"The coming-out drama by Rainer Kaufmann shows the whole gamut of turmoil, insecurity, lust and jealousy and dispenses with striking display"

- TV movie

“In his script, Jürgen Schlagenhof draws a family constellation with characters who do not have a fixed location, but rather remain in between. Or simply wanting to have everything instead of making a decision. [...] When the bride hovers through the picture in slow motion, the felt hundredth Ballhaus spinning top buzzes around the protagonists from the stylish world of the upper class and plucked, oriental-inspired music shows inner delight, in most cases that's too much of a good thing "

- Ursula Scheer : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 21, 2015

"Thematically courageous (TV) love drama with convincing actresses who, in the context of the subtle visual preparation, set quite sensual accents."

- Film service

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of shooting for the WDR / ARD television film "Ich will dich". In: Presseportal.de. WDR, November 8, 2013, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ I want you. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on July 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ TV film "I want you". In: Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved July 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ "Back to the future" makes good rates in the present. In: Westfälische Nachrichten. DPA, October 22, 2015, accessed July 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "I want you"
  6. ↑ https://www.fnp.de/kino-tv/ich-will-dich-intensiver-liebesfilm-10889710.html
  7. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/arte-film-mit-ina-weisse-und-erika-maroszn-ein-drama-um-liebe-und-lust/11366584.html
  8. ↑ https://www.tvspielfilm.de/news-und-specials/interviewsundstories/film-als-herzenssache-ich-will-dich-ina-weisse-schauspielerin-und-regisseurin,6420082,ApplicationArticle.html
  9. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/der-fernsehfilm-ich-will-dich-im-ersten-13866772.html
  10. ↑ I want you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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