Mom is coming!
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| Original title | Mom is coming! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Isabel Kleefeld |
| script | Sophia Krapoth |
| production |
Lisa Blumenberg , Sabine Timmermann |
| music | Dürbeck & Dohmen |
| camera | Peter Nix |
| cut | Renata Salazar-Ivancan |
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Mom is coming! is a German TV film directed by Isabel Kleefeld with Senta Berger and Anja Kling from 2009.
action
Luise Fischer lives with her sister Hedda. When she gets involved with a younger man, the sisters get into an argument. Because Luise doesn't want to apologize for calling her sister a slut, Hedda promptly throws her out of the door. Luise's 40-year-old daughter Christiane is accordingly surprised when her mother suddenly appears in front of her door with her suitcase. As a single mother of a pubescent daughter, trauma surgeon Christiane actually has enough problems. She also has a love affair with her much younger colleague, the assistant doctor Lars Rühmann, which she prefers to keep a secret due to the age difference. Even daughter Jette doesn't know anything about it. It is only reluctantly that Christiane lets her mother, who is dissolving with self-pity, live with her, even if she assures that she only wants to stay two weeks, during which she will certainly not be a burden to her.
But contrary to her assurances, Luise turns Christiane's household completely upside down. She fires the cleaning lady, prefers to cook and clean herself and constantly complains about her daughter's lifestyle. In contrast to Christiane, she always took the time to go through homework with her children. The fact that Christiane does not have a steady partner also prompts Luise to give instructive lectures again and again. Christiane has enough of it quickly and therefore tries to hold her brother Tommi responsible. However, he always finds an excuse not to have to take his mother into his home.
Meanwhile, the medical technician and former college friend Stephan Nöstlinger is returning to Christiane's life. He's just divorced and he's still interested in her, which Lars doesn't miss either. Luise is really taken with Stephan and therefore wants to couple him with Christiane. Her granddaughter Jette, who wants to go to America for a year and fears that her mother will feel too lonely without her, is also trying to find a partner for Christiane. For this purpose, she fills out a profile for Christiane on a partner exchange on the Internet. One of the suggested men is an older art dealer named Brückner. When Luise and Jette enter his art gallery, Brückner is immediately fascinated by Luise and wants to give her a painting by her favorite painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo . Lars is also in the gallery and offers Luise to hang the picture in Christiane's bedroom. When Christiane comes home, she is not particularly taken with it. When Stephan also arrives and Luise tells Lars and Stephan across the street about her daughter's exiles, Christiane throws the two men out of their apartment.
Lars begins to doubt Christiane's feelings for him more and more. Christiane finally agrees to a discussion in her apartment the upcoming evening, which is why she asks Jette to do something with Luise. But Luise also wants the apartment to herself that evening so that she can spend a romantic dinner with Brückner undisturbed. When Christiane goes home, Stephan meets her with a bouquet of flowers at the front door. Lars arrives too and the two men fight. Surprisingly, Tommi also appears, watching the scuffle with amusement. Convinced that everything is only Luise to blame, Christiane storms into her apartment. She is fed up and packs Luise's suitcase. After Brückner said goodbye, mother and daughter talk to each other. Luise has to realize that she was always too dominant and decisive, also towards Christiane's deceased father. However, she always only interfered in order to have the feeling of being needed and not being alone. Christiane, on the other hand, confesses that she is afraid of closeness and therefore always looks for "men with built-in relationship brakes", as her colleague Nadja said. After a deep hug, Luise decides to write her sister Hedda an email and apologize. As it turns out, Hedda has already broken up with her young lover. She forgives her sister and takes her back to her home. Lars is now flirting with Nadja, but that doesn't bother Christiane because she finally wants to find a man who really suits her and from whom she doesn't have to run away. While she is shooting an introductory video at a dating agency and self-critically talking about her taste in relationships in front of the camera, Luise goes to Brückner's gallery to start all over with him.
background
The shooting took place in autumn 2008 in Berlin . Director Isabel Kleefeld and leading actress Senta Berger had previously shot the two suspected crime thrillers Ein neue Leben (2006) and The Wrong Woman (2008) as well as the thriller Insomnia (2009) together. Berger's son Simon Verhoeven slipped into the role of son in the film.
Mom is coming! premiered on June 30, 2009 at the Munich Film Festival. On March 1, 2010, the film was shown on television for the first time by ZDF . The audience rating was 6.51 million, which corresponds to a market share of 19.4%.
Reviews
According to the lexicon of international films , the film takes an "ironic look at the emotional worlds of three women of different ages who also have to learn to admit their love for one another". Jürgen Overkott from the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung found that what "brings tears of anger to our eyes in real life" puts a smile on the face of the viewer in Isabel Kleefeld's comedy. The film can come up with "decent, sometimes brilliant dialogues and a good ensemble". Senta Berger succeeded in doing "a feat" by gradually transforming "annoying Luise into a thoroughly likeable lady". It is a pity, however, that the initially “impressive [e] ensemble film [...] ends as a solo for Senta”.
Prisma found Berger's role "all too annoying and implausible, because such a woman would be thrown out of the apartment within a very short time". It would have been better if the scriptwriter Sophia Krapoth had "applied less thickly" in this regard, since Berger and the rest of the cast had "proved sufficiently" that they were good actors. It is therefore a "wasted opportunity". TV Spielfilm, on the other hand, said that the actors in the “not too roughly carved” story were “believable”. The dialogues are also "good for some smirkers". The “family and love turmoil” shown in the film are all in all “sometimes flat”, but “mostly nice”.
Web links
- Mom is coming! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mom is coming! at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. studio-hamburg.de
- ↑ Mama is coming! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Jürgen Overkott: "Mama is coming": Entertaining psychological war . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , October 28, 2010.
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ cf. tvspielfilm.de