Jongens
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Jongens |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mischa Kamp |
| script |
Henk Burger , Jaap-Peter Enderle , Chris Westendorp |
| production |
Pieter Kuijpers , Iris Otten , Sander van Meurs |
| music | Rutger Reinders |
| camera | Melle van Essen |
| cut | Katarina Turler |
| occupation | |
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Jongens ( Dutch for “boys”) is a Dutch film by the director Mischa Kamp from 2014. Originally produced for television, it was subsequently brought to the cinema.
action
The 15-year-old winner recently lost his mother and now lives with his older brother Eddy with his father. While the rebellious Eddy, who works in a sawmill , keeps causing his father problems, Sieger is a rather reserved boy, but a fanatical athlete who spends most of his time on the track. His coach finally suggests that he and his best friend Stef join the athletics club's B team and train for an athletics championship. There are two more boys in the team and the winner becomes friends with the slightly older Marc. The four train a lot together and also meet often in the remaining free time. When they go swimming in a pond and Sieger and Marc stay behind in the evening, the two boys kiss. Afterwards, Sieger emphasizes, confused, that he is not gay. The relationship between the two friends and teammates becomes complicated as a result.
Stef has since started a relationship with Kim, whose friend Jessica is very interested in Sieger. Eddy bought a motorcycle without his father's knowledge and secretly organizes motocross races in the forest with his friends . Stef and Sieger often stay there too. Marc, meanwhile, makes no secret of his deeper feelings for winners and this one comes closer to him again during a training camp. But when one day Jessica Sieger kisses in front of Marc, Marc is deeply hurt. The boys are becoming increasingly alienated. This also jeopardizes the championship, where the winner of the relay race is supposed to take over from Marc.
Sieger feels guilty about his behavior towards Marc and has to admit that he actually loves him. When the team wins the relay race at the championship, winner Marc can finally win back.
background
Director Mischa Kamp wanted to tell a love story the likes of which had never been seen on Dutch television, so she decided on the love between two boys. The decision to put the film on the career track was due to budgetary reasons : Since fewer extras were required for a track and field team than, for example, for a football team, the film could be made cheaper. Kamp emphasized that the film had also been made especially for younger people and therefore did not contain any explicit actions. Nevertheless, it was difficult for the main actors to get involved in the intimate scenes, which is why the director tried to bring the boys closer to each other outside of the shooting time and so take away their shyness. In addition, the kissing scenes were only filmed on the last day.
Jongens was initially produced for Dutch television and first broadcast on February 9, 2014 on the children's channel Zapp . After positive reactions from the audience and critics, the distributor Cinemien decided to post the film on May 6th in fourteen selected cinemas. The rights were then sold to the United States , the United Kingdom , Taiwan , Poland , France and Germany (on loan from Edition Salzgeber ). The film was shown at the Seattle International Film Festival , the Vancouver Queer Film Festival , the Atlanta Out-on-Film Festival and the Frameline Film Festival , among others .
As part of the Gay Film Night in January 2015, the film was shown for the first time as the original with German subtitles in selected German cinemas; the DVD release followed on February 3, 2015.
reception
In de Volkskrant , Kevin Toma judged in the run-up to the first broadcast that Kamp knew how to hit the protagonist's “inner restlessness” “nicely without being too thick”. He criticized the film but as "a little too good"; In the end, it is "no longer credible with these deeply in love teenagers that it is just kissing and holding hands".
Boyd van Hoeij reviewed the film in the Hollywood Reporter and came to the conclusion: “Strong acting performances and an admirably laid-back script characterize this mixture of sports film and coming-out story.” He called the film “intimate and touching”, “good-looking and played well ”. Although he complained that the film “did not offer any particularly surprising twists”, the director admitted to moving the audience with the “beautifully portrayed” “story of a first love that is more complicated than most”. He particularly emphasized the "unexpectedly filmed from a bird's eye view" kiss scene in the pond, which was "both aesthetically beneficial and symbolic", "since teenagers kissing from above could belong to any gender". He also praised the soundtrack, which managed to "hint at Sieger's agitated vortex of inner surges of emotion without ever becoming depressing or melancholy".
Monica Meijer judged on Cinemagazine that Jongens was at first glance a “nice youth film”, the focus of which was “insecure adolescents”. But “the recognizable theme of first love and its credible elaboration” make the film “a pleasant use of time” for adults too. The feelings of the main characters are "absolutely sincere", the camera work is "beautiful and inventive". The director gives the audience "enough clues to get their own imagination going". Meijer awarded four stars out of five.
Chris Keech, a Frameline Film Festival reviewer , said the director managed to capture “all those subtle nuances that defined first encounters with physical attraction and desire” and that the film would become “a universal story in her capable hands the innocent wonder, agitation, fear and insecurity of a first love ”. Jongens is "refreshing in that most of the tension comes from Sieger's inner struggle, not from some disapproving voice around him."
Awards
The film won four prizes at the Zlín Youth Film Festival in the Czech Republic in 2014:
- Main prize of the International Youth Jury for the best feature film for young people
- Ecumenical Jury Prize
- Audience Award “Golden Apple” for the best feature film
- Miloš Macourek Award for the best young actor in a youth film to Gijs Blom
At the International Children's Film Festival "Lucas" in Frankfurt am Main , the film received the Sir Peter Ustinov Youth Film Prize in autumn 2014 , which was awarded by a jury of 14 to 16 year old schoolchildren.
Web links
- Jongens in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Jongens on Filmstarts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for jongens . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 735 V).
- ↑ Mischa Kamp toont 'gewone rande' homotieners. RTL Nieuws, February 5, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2014 (Dutch).
- ↑ Telefilm 2014: Mischa Kamp. 'Elkaar aanstaren en op schoot'. De Filmkrant, February 8, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 (Dutch).
- ↑ Jongens grote winnaar op jeugdfilmfestival Tsjechië. In: NU.nl. Sanoma Media Netherlands groep, June 4, 2014, accessed September 12, 2014 (Dutch).
- ^ A b Boyd van Hoeij: Boys (Jongens): Film Review. Hollywood Reporter, May 5, 2014, accessed September 12, 2014 : “Strong performances and an admirably loose-limbed screenplay elevate this mixture of sports movie and coming-out narrative. … In her intimate and touching feature… this good-looking and well-acted film… The boys' subsequent horsing around ends in a tender smooch in the water that Kamp and cinematographer Melle van Essen capture in an unexpected overhead shot that's both esthetically pleasing and laden with symbolic meaning, as seen from above, the two kissing teenagers could be of any sex. ... Since the film combines sports-movie tropes with a traditional coming-out narrative, there's little in terms of plot twists that will shock even the most casual moviegoer. But clearly, Kamp's intention is not to surprise but rather to move the viewer with her depiction of a first love that's more confusing than most but that's beautifully mapped out here. ... The score, by Rutger Reinders, supplely supports the proceedings and manages to suggest Sieger's churning maelstrom of conflicting feelings without ever becoming downbeat or melancholy ... "
- ↑ Boys. (No longer available online.) 40th Seattle International Film Festival, archived from the original on September 17, 2014 ; accessed on September 12, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Boys (Jongens). Vancouver Queer Film Festival, accessed March 1, 2016 .
- ↑ “Boys”. (PDF) In: Festival Guide 2014. Out on Film, p. 18 , accessed on March 1, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Chris Keech: Boys. (No longer available online.) Frameline, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 1, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jongens. In: Cinema press area. Edition Salzgeber, accessed on November 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Product info . (PDF) In: DVD press area. Edition Salzgeber, accessed on January 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Kevin Toma: Films zondag. de Volkskrant, February 8, 2014, accessed on March 2, 2016 (Dutch): “Director Mischa Kamp (Het paard van Sinterklaas, Tony 10) weet in deze telefilm Sieger innerlijke onrust must meet, zonder dat het er te dik bovenop ligt . … The film is wel wat braafjes. Uiteindelijk is het bij deze Zwaarde puberjongens niet meer loofwaardig dat het bij wat zoenen en handje vasthouden blijft. "
- ↑ Monica Meijer: Recensie: Jongens. Cinemagazine, February 7, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2014 (Dutch): “'Jongens' is in eerste instantie een mooie jeugdfilm waarin onzekere pubers het middelpunt vormen. Maar het herkenbare onderwerp, (eerste )ießde, en de geloofwaardige uitwerking daarvan, maakt dat het ook voor volwassenen een aangename tijdsbesteding is. The emoties van de hoofdrolspelers zijn absolut oprecht. … The camera is being en inventief… [Z] e geeft de kijkers have handvaten om de own imagination aan het work te zetten én het maakt de film geschikt voor een jonger publiek. "
- ↑ Chris Keech: Boys. (No longer available online.) Frameline, archived from the original on September 13, 2014 ; accessed on September 12, 2014 (English): "Director Mischa Kamp manages to capture all of the delicate nuances that dictate initial encounters with attraction and desire. In her capable hands, Boys becomes a universal story about the innocent wonder, excitement, fear, and uncertainty of first love. The film is refreshing in that most of the tension comes from Sieger's inner struggle, not from any disapproving voices around him. “ 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.
- ↑ 54th Zlín Film Festival Awards. (PDF) Zlín Film Festival, accessed on September 12, 2014 (English).
- ↑ Queer.de: Children's film festival “Lucas” - students award a film about two gay young people , accessed on September 28, 2014.
