Venetian friendship
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Venetian friendship |
| Original title | Io sono Li |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian language |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrea Segre |
| script | Andrea Segre |
| production | Francesco Bonsembiante and Francesca Feder |
| music | François Couturier |
| camera | Luca Bigazzi |
| cut | Sara Zavarise |
| occupation | |
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Venetian Friendship (Original title: Io sono Li ) is an Italian drama and feature film debut by documentary filmmaker Andrea Segre from 2011 with Tao Zhao and Rade Šerbedžija . The film was shot in Italy and describes the love story of two people from different cultures.
action
The Chinese Shun Li left her eight-year-old son at home in search of a better life. She got into debt , traveled to Europe and found work as a seamstress in a textile factory in Rome . She is very hardworking and reliable, which is not hidden from her boss either. He lends it to a subcontractor in Venice who runs an osteria on the lagoon in Chioggia . She is supposed to work there for an indefinite period in order to pay off her debts. Shun Li accepts her fate and travels there. She meets another Chinese woman with whom she shares a room. The two young women become friends.
The osteria where Shun Li is supposed to work is mostly visited by older fishermen from the village who make fun of them because they don't understand their language. Only Bepi, who emigrated from Croatia 30 years ago , stands by her and the two carefully approach each other. Their common interest is poetry . Shun Li tells him about her homeland, where a "festival of the dead poet" is celebrated and red lanterns are lit on the water in his honor .
One day Bepi takes her to his little fisherman's hut in the middle of the lagoon. Shun Li tells her colleague about the meeting and the acquaintance with Bepi. She advises her to end the relationship urgently, as the subcontractor does not tolerate private contacts. And Bepi is harassed and even beaten up by the other fishermen. They believe that the young Chinese woman is only after his money. Eventually the two are separated when Shun Li is sent to another work site.
A few months later, Shun Li is again working in a clothing factory when suddenly her son is standing in the factory floor. She is very happy about the unexpected reunion, but is at a loss as to who paid for her son's trip. To find out, she goes to Venice again. She learns that her colleague at the time financed the flight and has now disappeared. Bepi has since passed away. With the help of a fisherman, Shun Li fulfills Bepi's last wish and sets his fisherman's hut on fire in the lagoon.
criticism
The cinema portal kino.de praises the realistic picture that Segre paints of the “well-organized businesses of Chinese businessmen”. The portal praises the “sober and quiet” description of the conditions, which at the same time allows “small, deeply moving miracles and anonymous benefits”.
3sat is just as positive as the film "deals with big issues in a very discreet way and as if incidentally: human trafficking and xenophobia , loneliness and the search for identity."
The Focus praises in his film criticism, the first feature film by Andrea Segre as "a wonderfully poetic story about the power of friendship." The melancholy film lives mainly from its two "great main actors".
In its review, Bayerischer Rundfunk also rated Segre's staging as a beautifully filmed drama that tells of the friendship between two people with calm images. In the melancholy pictorial landscapes of the wintry backdrop, “every shot looks almost like a painting”. The “gray, hazy atmosphere” does not exude depression, however, but “a bond with the elements”. The global world is illustrated critically and dramatically at the same time using two individuals with soft tones.
The Süddeutsche Zeitung particularly praises Andrea Serge's directorial work, who gives the two main actors plenty of space to “form sentences and find movements together”, in order to let the viewer feel the loneliness that connects the two strangers in the tourist-deserted Venice.
Web links
- Shun Li and the Poet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer for the film , website of the film distribution company Rendezvous, accessed on November 22, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Venetian Friendship . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 451 K).
- ^ Venetian friendship , website of the cinema portal kino.de, accessed on November 23, 2014.
- ↑ With the power of poetry: The film "Venetian Friendship" , 3sat website, accessed on November 23, 2014.
- ↑ Fine Actor Cinema: "Venetian Friendship" . In: Focus, November 30, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2014.
- ^ Art house drama Venetian friendship . On: Bayerischer Rundfunk, December 3, 2013. Accessed November 27, 2014.
- ↑ Burning ship . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 9, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2014.