War of women
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | War of women |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Katinka Feistl |
| script | Martin Rauhaus |
| production |
Ariane Krampe , Martin R. Neumann |
| music |
Moritz Denis , Eike Hosenfeld |
| camera | Sophie Maintigneux |
| cut | Antonia Fenn |
| occupation | |
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War of the Women is a German television film from 2006 by director Katinka Feistl .
action
The single banker Sophie and the housewife and mother Katharina have known each other for a long time, but then lost sight of each other. They meet again by chance and Katharina persuades Sophie to move into her neighborhood. Over the years, however, their ideas and life plans have developed very differently. While Sophie is of the opinion that she can be successful in today's professional life and still be a good mother, Katharina is convinced of the opposite. For them, children only get enough love and encouragement if they are cared for by their mother. Nevertheless, she gives her children to kindergarten in the mornings and then cleans in the practice of her psychiatrist husband. There she is now mistaken for an official cleaning lady by a patient, which makes her think. She discusses with her husband about her newly found friend Sophie and although she was very happy to find her again after years, she notices that their philosophies of life no longer match at all. She can hardly bear it that Sophie takes care of everything with her money instead of doing more herself. This is particularly noticeable when it comes to their own work in the children's shop, which their children visit together. In Katharina the contempt for Sophie grows and friendship becomes more and more enmity. Their conversations with one another are increasingly determined by mutual allusions to their private life and child-rearing. After a violent dispute, which now also calls Sophie's professional life into question, the war between the two openly breaks out. To get Sophie to move out of the apartment above her, Katharina knocks loudly on the ceiling at night so that Sophie cannot sleep. In return, Sophie creates an unpleasant noise when Katharina's husband has patients in his practice, which is also in the house. Next, the ladies pick up larger sizes and rush the GEZ, the tax office and the youth welfare office on each other.
However, Katharina also takes her dissatisfaction out on her husband and ends up assuming that he is having an affair with a patient. After another argument about this issue, she throws him out of the apartment without further ado. When she regrets that, she seeks consolation from Sophie and they talk to each other. Their mutual respect returns and an insight into their own mistakes follows. So after three weeks Katharina's husband returns and Sophie refuses her boss's offer to thread an even bigger deal, thanking her to spend more time with her children again.
criticism
film-dienst : (TV) comedy rich in words and dialogue, which questions role clichés, self-definitions and self-understanding in a very lively staging, without slipping into slapstick or comedy; Such elements can also be found, but thanks to excellent actors, the comic power gains remarkable emotional depth.
For Kino.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff said: “If you take the film at its word, it takes over an hour to start up; the title clearly raises the wrong expectations. And of course the women are oversubscribed; both look like characters from the controversial book by Eva Herman. ”“ The pseudo-documentary interludes are also not very illuminating when the two women comment on the plot towards the camera as in an interview situation. ”
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film the best rating (thumbs up) and said: "Hardly any clichés, but dialogues with wit and bite." Conclusion: "Intelligent fun with small weaknesses."
Web links
- Women war in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- War of women
Individual evidence
- ↑ Women's War. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Film review at Kino.de , accessed on November 25, 2017.
- ↑ Film review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on November 25, 2017.