Miss Sixty (film)

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Movie
Original title Miss Sixty
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Sigrid Hoerner
script Jane Ainscough
production Sigrid Hoerner
Corinna Eich
Helge Sasse
music Max Knoth
camera Matthias Fleischer
cut Mona Bräuer
occupation

Miss Sixty is a comedy film by director Sigrid Hoerner from 2014. The fictional film is based on a screenplay by British-German screenwriter Jane Ainscough and is about sixty-year-old molecular biologist Luise Jansen, played by Iris Berben , who after her forced retirement decides to take her late To fulfill the desire to have children. Through her chosen sperm donor , she met his father, the young-at-heart gallery owner Frans, played by Edgar Selge , for whom she initially felt abhorrence, but over time developed more than just friendly feelings.

Hoerner's directorial debut was produced by Moneypenny Filmproduktion, Bavaria Pictures, Senator Film and EMF Eberhard Müller Filmproduktion and shot between July and August 2013 in North Rhine-Westphalia . In addition to Berben and Selge, Carmen-Maja Antoni , Björn von der Wellen , Jördis Richter , Götz Schubert and Michael Gwisdek appeared in front of the camera. In Germany, the screwball comedy was released on April 24, 2014, where the film received mixed reviews and attracted more than 100,000 visitors to the cinemas.

action

Luise Jansen, molecular biologist at the Bertrand Kruger Institute, was dismissed by her boss and former lover Bernhard on her 60th birthday after 40 years of service after breaking her thumb while competitor Marlies tried to use Luise's centrifuge without being asked . As a parting present, Marlies gives her frozen egg cells that Luise had frozen twenty years earlier in the institute for research purposes.

She uses her newfound free time to take long walks in the park. In the process, she meets the gallery owner Frans, who has been temporarily unable to move due to a lumbago , and asks her to take him to the hospital in his distress. The lover of young women, who has an affair with his intern Romy, lives with his son, the editor Max, in a shared apartment and runs desperately after his youth.

Luise, who lives with her mother Doris and sees life in retirement as a punishment, insists on the idea that with her egg cells she can finally fulfill her long-cherished wish to become a mother. While searching for “average sperm” she comes across Max, who years ago donated sperm to a sperm bank. When she sniffs after him, she discovers to her horror that this is Frans' son.

When Luise and Frans happen to meet again the next day in the department store, they decide to go out to eat together. Although the two can hardly stand each other at first, they trust each other over a bottle of wine and become friends. After an evening together, they finally sleep together a few days later. Despite burgeoning feelings, they then go their separate ways when Luise does not want to be dissuaded by Frans from becoming a mother.

When Doris dies unexpectedly a short time later, Luise falls into deep depression. Frans, who found out about Doris' death, visits Luise at home, where by chance he comes across Max's profile from the sperm bank. There is another argument between the two. Luise, who is planning a new start in another city, visits him a few days later in his gallery to apologize to him and to inform him that she has discarded her mother's plans. Frans realizes that he has already fallen in love and confesses his feelings to Luise shortly before she leaves. Together they let Luise's eggs float down the Rhine .

background

The Rhine metropolis of Cologne acted as the play and main location .

Screenwriter Jane Ainscough was inspired by an article in The Guardian newspaper that featured a 63-year-old English woman who, despite her advanced age, had become a mother. Miss Sixty is the directorial debut of film producer Sigrid Hoerner , who developed the material together with Ainscough. The project was shot between July 23rd and August 30th, 2013 in Cologne and the surrounding area. The text-heavy script of the screwball comedy required the actors to play fast. Hoerner therefore demanded great text security on the set.

The preparation of Miss Sixty was for the MoneyPenny film production, Bavaria Pictures, Senator film and the EMF Eberhard Müller film production in co-production with Degeto film as well as the transmitters West German Broadcasting (WDR) and arte . In addition to Hoerner, Corinna Eich and Helge Sasse appeared as producers. The editorial was Christine Strobl and her colleague Roman Klink and Sophie Seitz and Andreas Schreitmüller. The production was funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF), the Film Funding Agency (FFA), the Authority for Culture and Media and the Film Funding Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH).

Reviews

In the Tagesspiegel, Thomas Gehringer praised the "fast, humorous dialogues by screenwriter Jane Ainscough", and the topic is topical and relevant. The film deals with the questions raised by the possibilities of artificial insemination in a very relaxed, but thoroughly serious manner. He summed up: “You don't have to expect more from a comedy.” In the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Dagmar Hornung found that the “charming comedy” was best cast with Iris Berben. The issues of "youth madness, old age and mortality, childlessness and feminism" are serious despite all the humor.

Leading actress Iris Berben received positive reviews for her play in the film.

In the Munich tabloid Abendzeitung, Michael Stadler highlighted the right dose of "comedy and seriousness, polished dialogues and perfect timing", with which the main actors triumphed. He also praised great sidekicks , "above all Carmen-Maja Antoni as the dominant mother animal and a wine-loving, but always worldly bon vivant Michael Gwisdek". In the opinion of Andreas von Filmstarts , Miss Sixty turned out to be "an overall entertaining and well-staged film with a lot of dialog humor and a memorable female main character played furiously by Iris Berben".

The Stuttgarter Zeitung expressed clear criticism of Sigrid Hoerner's directorial debut. The film is as sterile “like the laboratory where the egg and sperm should meet”. When asked “Afraid of getting old?” The answer is: “Well, if we were to believe this immature work, we would have every reason to.” It still seems like a comedy has to take its characters seriously in order to be funny Not having got around to Hoerner. She adds cliché to cliché, piles sketch upon sketch and lets her characters separate nothing but sentences that squint at punchlines. But nothing ignites in this comedy from the retort ”.

Bert Rebhandl compared Hoerner's work in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung with the comedy Irre are Male by Anno Saul and found for both films: "The jokes are flat, the plot conventional". Comedy begins when someone “is not satisfied with the decals that have to pass as characters here. Where something is at stake that cannot be appeased with an egg dance around script formulas ”. Miss Sixty knows nothing about it with his "honest wit." The project was implemented in a “professional manner”, but it demonstrates that Hoerner seems to “mistrust” the “narrative process” that she has set in motion.

Dirk Peitz described the comedy in the world as the “after-work film for the slippery movie theater” . They deal with getting old, but in order to “unequivocally underline their concerns”, the “demographic clothes themselves look very old”. Miss Sixty is a movie filled with “morals from the 1950s, jokes from the 1970s and the television aesthetics of the 1990s. As a spectator - like Luise's eggs - you would have to have been frozen twenty years ago, or even better a couple of decades earlier, in order to be able to find Miss Sixty new, funny, good, almost contemporary now, freshly thawed ”. The German theatrical release followed on April 24, 2014.

success

Miss Sixty will celebrate its premiere on April 14, 2014 in the Astor Film Lounge in Cologne in the presence of the cast and crew. The film opened in German cinemas on April 24, 2014 . Edition Senator, which was founded in July 2013, acted as a distributor. In Germany, at the end of the first screening weekend , Miss Sixty was the highest newcomer behind Grand Budapest Hotel , The Hundred Years Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, and Yves Saint Laurent placed fourth on the art house cinema charts. By the end of the year, the film had seen more than 108,500 visitors. The comedy was thus placed among the fifty most successful German productions of 2014. The film was first broadcast on free TV on August 17, 2018 on Das Erste .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Miss Sixty . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 460 K).
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  5. ↑ Dagmar Hornung: How Iris Berben wants to be a mother as "Miss Sixty". In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. August 16, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015.
  6. ^ A b Lars-Andreas Staben: Miss Sixty> Filmstarts Critique . Filmstarts.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
  7. ↑ Michael Stadler: Iris Berben in "Miss Sixty": Fresh as on the first day. In: evening newspaper. April 23, 2014, accessed December 5, 2015.
  8. ↑ rm: Panic because the bio clock is ticking. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. April 25, 2014, accessed December 5, 2015.
  9. ↑ Bert Rebhandl: When it comes to extremes on the ladder. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 24, 2014, accessed December 5, 2015.
  10. ↑ a b c Dirk Peitz: An after-work film for the slipper cinema. In: welt.de. April 23, 2014, accessed December 5, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Miss Sixty (2014) - Release Info. In: imdb.com. Retrieved June 18, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Film premiere in the residence "Miss Sixty" celebrates its premiere in Cologne. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
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  14. ↑ Cinema charts Germany week 40 online. In: Blickpunkt: Film . October 7, 2019, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (national) 2014 . Film Funding Agency . FFA.de. Retrieved October 23, 2019.
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