Beautiful women
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Beautiful women |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sathyan Ramesh |
| script | Sathyan Ramesh |
| production | Markus Gruber , Daniela Mussgiller , Georg Steinert , Roland Willaert |
| music | Stefan Hiss , Ina Müller , Edda Schnittgard |
| camera | Thomas Merker |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
| occupation | |
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Schöne Frauen is a 2004 film by the German - Indian director Sathyan Ramesh . Criticized partly as a road movie , partly as a comedy , it was awarded the Promotion Prize of the Emden Film Festival and was shown at the Max Ophüls Festival in , among others Saarbrücken and was broadcast on various channels such as EinsFestival .
content
In the style of a character study, the film, which is largely set in the North Sea coastal landscape, illuminates events that arise as a result of five actresses meeting at a casting date for a crime series. The role to be assigned appears - at least in the discussions of the five - clichéd, unattractive and linked to unreasonable conditions. All five only attend the appointment because they urgently need the fee for the role. Due to the waiting time, the competitive situation given by the situation breaks out more and more: During the course of the conversation, it turns out that none of the women really want the role. After more and more waiting time has passed without result, four of the five skip the appointment; the fifth - with her it is not clear whether she didn't get the role or whether she also gave up - is picked up later.
The excursion, which the five decide spontaneously, develops more and more into a soul striptease between the five participants. Friendships emerge, unexpected connections come to light, secrets are revealed. The whole thing ends in a chaotic binge in an abandoned country hotel, which is used by the two musicians Thea and Hanna as a rehearsal location. The five are aware of the non-repeatability of the situation. Nevertheless, the next day they decide to return to the same place a year later. The reunion a year later closes the film - and in the process clarifies a question that had remained open at the meeting a year earlier.
Emergence
Beautiful Women is the first film by director Sathyan Ramesh, who among other things co-wrote the television series Turkish for Beginners . As a motive for shooting beautiful women , the Berlin- born director who lives in Cologne stated that he wanted to make a film based on the five leading actresses he was friends with: Clelia Sarto , Julia Jäger , Ulrike C. Tscharre , Floriane Daniel and Caroline Peters personally tailored. Compared to the Rheinische Post , Ramesh summed up his motivation with the sentence: "I finally wanted to see it as I experience it."
particularities
- The storyline of the film is almost exclusively occupied by women. Men only appear as directly acting people in three places: once at the beginning of the film as a hooligan (shown blurred from behind) who molested one of the five on the street, as an unfriendly gas station owner ( Oscar Ortega Sánchez ) and as a concert guest on the occasion of the reunion a year later .
- The duo Queen Bee plays themselves in the film, but is integrated into the framework of the fictional plot.
- The song " Girlfriends One", which is used as a thematic key, closes the film dramaturgically, is part of Queen Bee's repertoire and is included as a regular release on the CD Girlfriends . Another adaptation of the song from 1998 can be found on the 2005 Lassie Singers compilation Rest Of. Ina Müller and Edda Schnittgard also play a cover version of the Gitte Hænning hit Tears? - Maybe from 1983.
criticism
The film received different ratings from the media. Several media criticized weaknesses in the script; some also questioned the deeper meaning of a soul journey staged in this way. On the other hand, the acting performance of the five leading actresses was positively noted. The idea itself also mostly met with goodwill in reviews of the film.
The film portal critic.de wrote: “The first film director Sathyan Rameshs is about five actresses who get to know each other during a casting and in the following, alcoholic night, tell each other their problems, dreams and philosophies of life. Despite a mediocre script, the former film critic manages to make an entertaining film at times. "
Rhein-Pfalz Online praised the film as being successful: “Where only women play, men can still watch. In fact, you should. Because this award-winning movie is funny and sad, rough and elegant, clichéd and extraordinary. And absolutely not what you imagine a 'woman's film' to be. Neither cute nor crying. "
The cinema portal kino-zeit.de particularly emphasized the authenticity of the performance: “There is a lot that is unusual about beautiful women, and so the fact that a man of all people wrote the book for this 'women's film' and this also staged, almost irrelevant, especially since this label is only partially correct. On the one hand there are the five leading actresses Floriane Daniel, Caroline Peters, Clelia Sarto, Ulrike C. Tscharre and Julia Jäger, who give the characters an incredible power and presence. No wonder, because the director and screenwriter Sathyan Ramesh - who previously worked as a film critic for a long time - was friends with all five actresses before the film and admits that he had them in mind while writing. You can see that in the film, of course, because somehow the whole time you have the feeling that you are not watching actresses who play actresses, but that you are much closer to authentic people. And so Schöne Frauen is not a women's film, but a film about exactly those five women who are by no means prototypical, neither for their profession nor for their gender. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b You have to be friends ... , Joachim Jurz, kino-zeit.de, accessed on April 14, 2012
- ↑ a b Extraordinary directorial debut in First: Beautiful Women on Tour , Verena Schurholz, RP-Online, June 29, 2006
- ↑ Schöne Frauen , Maike Stolp, critic.de, January 25, 2005