Lila, Lila (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Purple, purple |
| Country of production | Germany / Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Gsponer |
| script |
Alex Buresch novel based on: Martin Suter |
| production |
Andreas Fallscheer Henning Ferber Marcus Welke Sebastian Zühr |
| music | Max Richter |
| camera | Matthias Fleischer |
| cut | Barbara Gies |
| occupation | |
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Lila, Lila is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Martin Suter from 2009. It was directed by Alain Gsponer , with Daniel Brühl , Hannah Herzsprung and Henry Hübchen in the lead roles .
action
Nobody notices the shy waiter David Kern. One day he meets the young literature student Marie and falls in love with her. However, she rejects any of his advances on the grounds that she appreciates writers more. David buys a bedside table at a flea market . When he opens the stuck drawer at home, he finds the manuscript of a novel. David scans the manuscript with text recognition, puts his name in as the author, reprints it and brings it to Marie to read the next day, hoping to impress her with it.
In fact, Marie is absolutely thrilled and falls in love with David. She tries to persuade him to send the manuscript to a publisher. David refuses. Finally, Marie secretly sends the manuscript to a publisher to publish the book. This also happens and the novel storms the bestseller lists. From one day to the next, David is now a critically acclaimed author.
Soon all the hype and especially the press will be too much for David. In addition, a certain Jacky suddenly appears, posing as the true author of the novel. David can't do anything other than make a good face for the bad game, because Jacky follows him every step of the way, wants to share in his success and is already planning another novel. Marie becomes more and more estranged from David and finally leaves him because she cannot understand why he does not put Jacky in his place.
Jacky now wants to help David win Marie back, but after an argument with David he falls from the balcony and is seriously injured. In the hospital, Jacky, struggling with death, reconciles with David and dies a little later. At the funeral, Jacky's sister is astonished when David declares that he is a friend of Jacky's and not because Jacky owes him money.
David writes a book about his alleged first work and manages to win Marie back. His fans, however, are left in the dark whether this story is made up or corresponds to the facts.
production
Lila, Lila was filmed from June 3 to July 24, 2008 in Berlin , Leipzig and the Villa Rosental in Leipzig. The film was produced by Film1 , Falcolm Media and Millbrook Pictures. Falcolm Media is also the rental company. The budget was 3.5 million euros.
criticism
“Gsponer realistically and ironically implements Martin Suter's novel, written on film, exposing pseudo-intellectual play on words as inflated chatter and the literary scene as a shark tank. Everyone grabs a piece of the cake and basks in the other's glow. People celebrate themselves and the beautiful appearance and the media play along. Publishers want fresh literary meat and women want artists, not waiters. Just like in real life. Henry Hübchen shines as a shabby drifter with refreshing one-liners, his counterpart Daniel Brühl is allowed to mime the shy scene darling, who is over the head of the business. The combination of both is an absolute stroke of luck, as is the combination of tragic-comic, romance and absurd theater, the combination of great feelings and false identities. The meticulous work up to the eighth version of the script by Alexander Buresch is noticeable in the result. The different endings in the book and film shouldn't irritate this emotional and fast-paced piece of cinema. "
“The cast couldn't be more appropriate. Permanent young star Daniel Brühl has trimmed himself to perfection in the role of the inconspicuous boy who slides between reality and appearance, from Good Bye, Lenin to Inglourious Basterds . It was he who traveled to Ibiza four years ago with the Swiss director Alain Gsponer to convince Martin Suter of the qualities of the film project - with success. "
“The Swiss director Alain Gsponer (“ The True Life ”) has created a film from the material that made Martin Suter's novel“ Lila, Lila ”a bestseller that could make it a box office hit. And would have deserved it: Far from the usual German television aesthetics and with fantastic leading actors (Daniel Brühl and Hannah Herzsprung), he tells this story of love and lies with admirable ease as a smart, sharp satire on the madness of the book market, but also as utterly Uncynical and unkitchy romance. A pleasure."
"All in all," Lila, Lila "is a film that one often wishes for in German cinema. He is not ashamed for a second of being entertainment - but neither does he turn this goal into a dogged state affair. He does not shrink back from his cinema possibilities, but does not reveal his integrity for it either. And above all, it looks as if it wasn't created under existential author labor - but in a good mood, just like that. "
Awards
2011: 29th Minneapolis / St.Paul International Film Festival “Best Narrative Feature”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of release for purple, purple . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 942 K).
- ↑ Information on the shooting time on imdb.de
- ↑ Details of the locations on imdb.de
- ↑ Information from the companies on imdb.de
- ↑ Information on the budget on nzz.ch
- ↑ Film review on kino.de
- ↑ Film review on cineman.de
- ↑ Film review on Spiegel.de
- ↑ Film review on sueddeutsche.de ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival: Best of the Fest ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed February 25, 2012.
