Mother son
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mother son |
| Original title | Poziția Copilului |
| Country of production | Romania |
| original language | Romanian |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Călin Peter Netzer |
| script |
Razvan Radulescu , Călin Peter Netzer |
| production | Călin Peter Netzer, Ada Solomon |
| music |
Andi Arsenie , Mihai Cosmin Popa , Cristian Tarnovetchi |
| camera | Andrei Butica |
| cut | Dana Bunescu |
| occupation | |
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Mother & Son (original title: Poziția Copilului , literally: "The position of the child"; English-language festival title: Child's Pose ) is a Romanian film drama by the director and screenwriter Călin Peter Netzer from 2013 .
The film premiered on February 8, 2013 at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival and was awarded the main prize of the festival. This was the first time that the Golden Bear went to Romania. Mutter & Sohn was released in German cinemas on May 23, 2013.
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The main male character Barbu runs over a child while driving at a clearly excessive speed. He faces a criminal trial and years of imprisonment. His mother Cornelia, an architect and member of the Romanian upper class, begins activities to bribe witnesses and avoid her son's conviction.
Reviews
“Without much foreplay, the film engages in the everyday life of a wealthy family. The focus is on Claudia, a woman around 60, whose biggest problem is the estranged relationship with her adult son. Disaster then crashes into this secure world when her son causes an accident at excessive speed in which a 14-year-old boy dies. [...] This creates a complex psychological drama about guilt, atonement and forgiveness, and about the aftershocks of this accident, in which one gradually gets closer to Claudia, who was initially extremely unsympathetic. The way the film is made stands in stark contrast to the saturated conditions in which it plays, in often dim lighting conditions and with the camera being panned back and forth, which gives the impression of being one of the nervous protagonists. "
"Especially in the sober, documentary-looking reconstruction of the strategic campaign that Cornelia sets in motion to protect her son, the film reaches a depressing climax: The raw materialism and the arrogant, inhuman belief that everything can be done with money, take your breath away. As in his film 'Maria' (2003), the young Romanian director Călin Peter Netzer also gives insights into the moral state of post-socialist Romanian society in 'Child's Pose' using a family and relationship portrait. "
“Unfortunately, Netzer remains very familiar with his staging: His long-lasting, softly shaded hand-held camera images make Child's Pose seem a little insignificant. Acoustically, too, the extensive renouncement of extradiegetic music and the use of sound perspectives corresponding to the visual is well known. You have gotten used to this style to such an extent that you only perceive the realism effects that were once intended as a staging claim. This sharp and noteworthy film, which uses the classic, complex art of empathy in a masterly manner, is robbed of much of its explosiveness. "
“The story from the Romanian upper class is cool, solid and unspectacularly told, even if it is about the almost monstrous motherly love with which a woman crushes her grown son while she does everything to him after a fatal traffic accident in front of the prison to preserve."
“The winning film of the Berlinale 2013 was settled by Calin Peter Netzer in the Romanian upper class. 'Child's Pose' tells the story of Cornelia (Luminița Gheorghiu, 63), whose son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache, 35), whom she adores, is involved in a fatal traffic accident. Calculating, cool and frighteningly unemotional, Cornelia then does everything to save her boy from prison - with all the means at her disposal. 'Spiegel Online' rightly describes the role of this 'monstrous mother' as 'probably the most unsympathetic figure at this year's Berlinale'. Not least because of Luminița Gheorghiu's brilliant acting, 'Child's Pose' received the Golden Bear from the hands of the international jury. "
"Right from the start, the moralizing, resentment-laden tone that 'mother and son' takes on, the denunciating gesture with which Cornelia and her friend are exposed as old boxes in expensive coats, as well-dressed saddlecloths of unbearable dominance, which over poor families of victims like roll away weak sons equally. It gets really bad where the film tries to specify Barbus 'weakness' as a certain form of 'unmanliness' - as if it were a natural law that strong mothers produce emasculated sons. [...] In spite of all this: 'Mother and Son' has its good sides - especially where the film tries to overcome its tendency towards Oedipal black-and-white thinking and, based on the accident, to open up the view, to obscure the situation and to multiply the guilt. "
“Calin Peter Netzer calmly shows how Romanian society functions 25 years after the end of the Ceausescu dictatorship, how a rich upper class, belonging to Cornelia's family, manipulates authorities and laws. What makes the film interesting and touching beyond these closely observed processes is the individual moral drama, which cannot be separated from the social dilemma. [...] With the handheld camera very close to his protagonist, sober, almost documentary and yet very complex, structures become visible that lead to moral lapses without the film heroes being deprived of anything of their human nature or the chance for change. "
Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival 2013 : Golden Bear for the best film
Web links
- Mother & Son at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Körte: The bear is going to Romania . Retrieved February 17, 2013 .
- ^ First Films for the Competition and Berlinale Special. Retrieved February 17, 2013 .
- ^ Prizes of the International Jury. In: berlinale. Retrieved February 17, 2013 .
- ^ Romanian film Child's Pose wins Golden Bear in Berlin. Retrieved February 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Romanian film wins Golden Bear. In: Zeit Online , February 16, 2013, accessed on February 17, 2013.
- ↑ Information on the plot from the 2013 Berlinale program , accessed on February 16, 2013
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Child's Pose. (No longer available online.) Kulturradio vom rbb, February 12, 2013, archived from the original on June 26, 2013 ; Retrieved February 19, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Ula Brunner: Boundless motherly love. RBB, accessed February 19, 2013 .
- ^ Nino Klingler: Child's Pose. critic.de, February 11, 2013, accessed on February 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Peter Körte: The bear is going to Romania. faz.net, February 16, 2013, accessed February 19, 2013 .
- ↑ "Child's Pose": Romanian bear hunter surprises at the end. vogue.de, February 18, 2013, accessed on February 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Elena Meilicke: Jungskino. perlentaucher.de, May 22, 2013, accessed on May 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Hannelore Heider: Film of the Week: Mother & Son. Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 22, 2013, accessed on June 13, 2013 .
