Nightlife (2020)

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Movie
Original title Nightlife
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Simon Verhoeven
script Simon Verhoeven
production Quirin Berg ,
Max Wiedemann
music Maximilian Wanninger ,
Jerome Isma-Ae ,
Tai Jason ,
Simon Verhoeven
camera Jo home
cut Denis Bachter ,
Stefan Essl
occupation

Nightlife is a German comedy film directed by Simon Verhoeven in summer 2019 with Elyas M'Barek , Palina Rojinski and Frederick Lau in the leading roles. The world premiere was on February 4, 2020 in Berlin's Zoo Palast, federal start on February 13, 2020 by Warner Bros. Pictures .

action

At the center of the action are the two friends Milo and Renzo and the mostly nocturnal Berlin. The young Milo works as a bartender who turns night into day and often wakes up the next morning at the side of a woman who is stranger to him. Milo knows that things can't go on like this and after seeing normal people doing their day's work when looking out the window in daylight, he begins to long for a “more normal”, “serious” life with a wife and children. This would be possible if Milo's best friend Renzo wasn't a slob who regularly gets into trouble through his actions. Even the bank, which is supposed to realize Milo's serious life plans, takes a stand, even if the somewhat eccentric banker Heiko stands up for Milo. In view of his friend in need, Renzo now takes the initiative and almost conjures up a catastrophe.

Renzo takes matters into his own hands in his very personal way and - once again - gets involved in a crooked affair that promptly loses three kilos of cocaine . Suddenly he has half of the Berlin underworld on his neck. One evening, Milo met the red-haired music manager Sunny at an inopportune time and suddenly fell in love with the young woman. She might be the right one for him for life, but unfortunately Sunny plans to emigrate to the United States in the near future to start a new and interesting job with a record company in Atlanta . In order to sound out his chances with her, Milo plans a date on the same evening they meet. But this planned romantic dinner takes a completely unexpected turn, because the rushed buddy Renzo bursts into it and explains Milo that dangerous gangsters are on his heels. Now events come thick and fast and a turbulent hunt through night Berlin begins.

Production notes

The 40 days and nights of filming for Nightlife took place between June 18 and August 8, 2019 and for the most part took place on original locations in Berlin.

Since “ Männerherzen ” in 2009, this is the fifth joint feature film by director Simon Verhoeven with producers Quirin Berg and Max Wiedemann on distribution from Warner Bros. Pictures .

Tommy Stark and Christian Pralle designed the film structures, Silke Faber the costumes.

The project was funded by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern .

reception

Reviews

On Blick.de you can read that the film is “an amusing piece of popcorn cinema that doesn't take itself too seriously and is exceptionally well cast, right down to the supporting roles”. In addition, the supporting characters and guest appearances were particularly praised, "which are unrestrainedly oversubscribed, but are still a lot of fun".

The Berliner Morgenpost saw Verhoeven's film as a "declaration of love for the Berlin night."

Film Spiegel Essen found that director Verhoeven was mixing "modern romantic comedy with a fast-paced crime thriller into good-humored fun for a very large audience."

BILD described the film as "a love-buddy comedy with a laugh-guarantee."

TV Movie described the film as "an enjoyable mixture of modern romantic comedy and fast-paced crime thriller."

The Tagesspiegel wrote: “Simon Verhoeven combines the demands of mainstream cinema for familiarity - popular cast, clear plot structure - with a portion of anarchy. At Verhoeven, humor is always a question of details. Above all, however, his flair for comedy is defined by his loving view of thoroughly fallible characters. The big heart of a humorous humanist beats behind the shrill comedy fireworks. Worth seeing."

In its review of the film, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung stated: “Only character comics usually don't get you very far, it depends on the genre's inner workings being well taut. (...) Comedies tell of an overload, for which there is relief at the price of ridiculousness. "Nightlife" knows enough about this not to embarrass itself in the face of the most demanding of all genres. "

The film website Filmstarts.de rated: "A fun excursion into nightlife - without a hangover!"

The film magazine Cinema found, "Verhoeven combines slapstick scenes with puns and situational comedy". The game night was praised as one of the highlights, “which escalated in a macabre way. The fact that the story works so well is not only due to the ludicrous entanglements and the pointedly written dialogues, but above all to the precise timing of the actors ”.

The industry websitequotemeter.de wrote about “Nightlife”: “The closer Verhoeven interweaves the threads of action, which are initially parallel and later increasingly closer to one another, the better the film works. Here every action detail has its place and function ”.

KinoKino came to the conclusion: “Simon Verhoeven knows how to slow down the pace in between. The romantic part of the comedy works - but it's also a rowdy one. (...) In the gangster comedy part of "Nightlife", the film gets lost, becomes a bit confused, although the gag density is high. "

The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger rated the film as a “successful mainstream comedy with a sense of comic detail and a big heart for its fallible characters”.

Gross profit

"Nightlife" started in German cinemas on February 13, 2020. With box-office earnings of almost 3.2 million euros on its first screening weekend, the film was the top-selling title in the German cinema charts. After 3 weeks and as the first German film in 2020 with over 1 million visitors, the theatrical exploitation ended abruptly when all cinemas in Germany were closed for the time being due to the corona crisis . During the period during the social distancing recommended by the state and federal states , in which only drive-in theaters were allowed to remain open, Nightlife took first place in the so-called "Lockdown Charts" with 66,000 spectators, ahead of The Perfect Secret and The Kangaroo Chronicles.

Awards

  • Romy - (2020) Best Screenplay (Cinema)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for nightlife . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 197003 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for nightlife . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ German cinema charts: High Life! Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Leading actors for Simon Verhoeven's "Nightlife" have been determined. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Review on blick.de from February 4, 2020 , accessed on February 10, 2020
  6. ↑ Review in Berliner Morgenpost of February 4, 2020 , accessed on February 10, 2020
  7. ↑ Review in Blickpunkt Film, printed in Filmspiegel Essen , accessed on February 10, 2020
  8. ↑ New in the cinema: “Nightlife”: love hunt with Elyas M'Barek & Palina Rojinski. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Rüdiger Rapke: Nightlife, review in TV Movie from February 7, 2020
  10. ↑ Martin Schwickert: Nightlife, Review in Ticket - Der Tagesspiegel from February 13, 2020
  11. ^ Bert Rebhandl: Nobody is at the wheel here, criticism in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on February 9, 2020
  12. ↑ Filmstarts: The Filmstarts review of Nightlife. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ CINEMA online: Nightlife (2020) - Film | cinema.de. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  14. ^ "Nightlife" - The gangster RomCom for Valentine's Day. February 13, 2020, accessed on February 18, 2020 (German).
  15. ↑ cinema cinema | 02/12/2020: Elyas M'Barek plunges into the "nightlife". Retrieved on February 18, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ Nightlife, review in Kölner Stadtanzeiger from February 20, 2020
  17. ↑ Cinema charts Germany week 7 online. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .
  18. ↑ "Nightlife" is the first German visitor millionaire in 2020. Accessed on May 15, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Film starts: Measure to contain the corona virus: All cinemas close. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Focus: Film | News | Lockdown Charts Germany: "Nightlife" is the front runner. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
  21. ↑ christoph.silber: ROMY survives everything: These are the 2020 winners. Accessed on June 17, 2020 .

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