Paula (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Paula |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Schwochow |
| script |
Stefan Kolditz , Stephan Suschke |
| production |
Ingelore König , Claudia Steffen , Christoph Friedel |
| music | Jean Rondeau |
| camera | Frank Lamm |
| cut | Jens Klüber |
| occupation | |
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Paula , with subtitle Paula - My life should be a festival, is a biographical film drama from 2016 by Christian Schwochow about the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died young . The film premiered on August 7, 2016 at the Locarno Film Festival .
action
The film is based on the life of Paula Modersohn-Becker during her time in Worpswede and Paris , but allows herself some freedom for dramaturgical reasons. For example, he limited the number of her multiple stays in Paris to a single one and did not meet Otto's first wife Helene, who gave birth to his daughter Elsbeth in 1898 and did not die until 1900.
Instead, the action begins well before 1900, when Paula, who was already trained in drawing (who has lived in Bremen with her family since 1888), decides to go to Worpswede in her early twenties. In doing so, she asserts her will against that of her father Carl Woldemar Becker , who would have preferred an education that was typical of women at the time and preparatory to the role of a wife and housewife. The apprenticeship with Fritz Mackensen did not satisfy her, so she quickly found her own way and made friends with Clara Westhoff , who was two years younger , and later also with Rainer Maria Rilke and Otto Modersohn , who, as a widower, recently started looking after his little daughter Elsbeth got to.
Otto defends Paula against Mackensen, who strictly rejects Paula's strong urge for artistic freedom. This leads to a romance in which Otto remains timid, but which nonetheless ends in both marriage. Disappointed that Otto did not want to make her a “woman” - and thus a mother - Paula finally flees to Clara and Rilke in Paris after five years of marriage. Otto allows this, allows her to have a lover himself by letter, but affirms his love all the more. He even supports them to such an extent that the Worpswede artists' colony is faced with a serious rift, as Mackensen fears for their reputation.
Outwardly, Paula leaves Otto's expressions of love indifferent: She only answers when she needs money and actually lets herself into a new love affair. When Otto himself travels to Paris to persuade her to return and stands at her door unannounced, he is initially turned away by Paula in order to avoid meeting the lover. A meeting the next day ends in an argument and what appears to be a final breakup. But when Otto visits his wife again after an urgent hint from Rilke and - while she is still sleeping - looks at her pictures in peace, he realizes that he was wrong and that she is actually on her way to a great artist become. He lays down a large sum of money for her and quietly leaves the apartment. When Paula finds the money, Otto is so touched by Otto's selfless love that she comes to his hotel gratefully and remorsefully. There it comes to a passionate reconciliation and after years the two finally have sex . Paula returns to Worpswede happy and pregnant. The birth, however, is extremely difficult - which Otto secretly always feared and had led to his long sexual abstinence - and weakens Paula so much that she dies shortly afterwards.
reception
The film was received "enthusiastically" by the audience in Locarno.
At the 2017 German Film Awards , the film won in the categories of “Best Production Design” and “Best Costume Design”.
criticism
“The drama about an eventful life as an artist shines with its lively acting leading actress and a congenial image design, but loses sight of the artist's ideal focus. The development of her modern style, but also the inspiring, intellectual Parisian flair are not always made believable. "
publication
The film opened in theaters in Germany on December 15, 2016. Paula was first seen on German television on March 27, 2019 on Arte .
Web links
- Paula in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Internet presence of the film
- Paula at filmportal.de
- Artist biography of soundtrack composer Jean Rondeau at Warner Classics
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paula. Brief introduction. Biograph, Kultur- und Kinomagazin (biograph.de), 2016, accessed on January 4, 2017 .
- ^ Certificate of release for Paula . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 163554 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Paula . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Locarno Film Festival: Honorary Leopard for Jane Birkin. In: The time . May 5, 2016. Retrieved January 4, 2017 .
- ↑ German film "Paula" inspires in Locarno. (dpa). In: The time . August 7, 2016, accessed January 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Department United.com .