Love steaks
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Original title | Love steaks |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 2013 |
length | 89 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Jakob Lass |
script | Jakob Lass, Ines Schiller , Timon Schäppi , Nico Woche |
production | Ines Schiller, Golo Schultz , Marc Oliver Dreher , Martin Ludwig |
music | Golo Schultz |
camera | Timon Schäppi |
cut | Gesa hunter |
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Love Steaks is an award-winning German mumblecore film from 2013 .
action
Clemens begins his probationary period as a masseur in a wellness hotel on the Baltic Sea. Shy and often clumsy, he tries to find his way in the luxury world. Cooking trainee Lara, on the other hand, masters her work in the kitchen with boldness and confidence. Both are slowly getting closer. She, who likes to take what she wants, has to use all sorts of tricks to get him to bed in the end . He manages to get rid of his initial insecurity a little and, not least through his relationship with Lara, to develop more self-confidence. When he begins to articulate his own wishes more clearly, a first conflict arises. Lara, who always wants to be in control, gets lost in alcohol again . However, Clemens wants Lara to get away from her increased alcohol consumption and mentions bottles standing around in the kitchen to the kitchen management. Lara, who receives a warning, lies to Clemens that she has now been fired because of his "betrayal" . Clemens then confronts the supposedly responsible persons at a management meeting. He quits his job. Lara finds out about it and runs after him. Out by the sea, the two slap and fight violently until they finally kiss.
production
The film was shot without dubbing and with improvised dialogues in the Hotel Kurhaus Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea . Apart from the two main actors and Ev-Katrin Weiß, all participants are employees of the hotel. Similar to the Dogma 95 concept, a set of rules for the realization of the film was drawn up under the term FOGMA : Cohesion among filmmakers is required and all those involved are allowed to contribute ideas in an anti-hierarchical manner. The film was made without funding when the director studied at the HFF Potsdam together with the Munich film production company Mamoko Entertainment.
criticism
"'Love Steaks' is an exception in the German film landscape, an exciting and funny film, one that is as artistic as it is saturated with reality - and which was made without any funding."
"LOVE STEAKS is a courageous contribution to the question of the form of modern film and a strong story at the same time."
premiere
The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2013 and was released in German theaters on March 27, 2014.
Prizes and awards
- New German Cinema Award 2013 in all four categories (direction, production, screenplay, acting)
- Max Ophüls Prize 2014
- Nomination for Best Fiction German Film Award 2014
- “Silver Cherry” for the “Best First And Second Feature” at the Avvantura Filmfest Zadar Croatia 2014
DVD release
The Love Steaks DVD was released on October 24, 2014 on the Darling Berlin label ( UCM.ONE ).
Web links
- Love Steaks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love Steaks at filmportal.de (with trailer and photo gallery)
- Love Steaks website
- DVD website Love Steaks
Individual evidence
- ^ Cosima M. Grohmann: Filmmaker and having fun. In: Berliner Filmfestivals from July 28, 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2014 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 March 31, 2014.
- ^ Ulrich Sonnenschein: Love Steaks. epd film, February 18, 2014, accessed April 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Max Ophüls Festival - The Prize Winners 2014, accessed on January 26, 2014 ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )