Since you've been here
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Since you've been here |
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| Country of production |
Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Hofmann |
| script | Michael Hofmann |
| production |
Alexander Funk , Moritz von der Groeben , Dieter Pochlatko , Jakob Pochlatko |
| music | Julius Kalmbacher |
| camera | Jo Molitoris |
| cut | Bernd Euscher |
| occupation | |
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Since you are here there is a German - Austrian TV film from 2016. Directed by Michael Hofmann . The first broadcast was in Germany on May 6, 2016 on arte and in Austria on December 14, 2016 on ORF 2 .
action
After Alina, the single mother of nine-year-old Lilia living in Vienna , got a new job after a long period of unemployment , she asks her ex-boyfriend Jarek to take the child to violin lessons once a week. Lilia and the unsuccessful painter Jarek, who waits in the “Club of Polish Failures” * café , have always been warmly disgusted with each other and are initially extremely reluctant to accept this arrangement.
During the violin lessons he waits in the house of the violin teacher Clara, gradually becomes friends with her sons and makes the acquaintance of Clara's husband Bertschi, who is an art dealer and curator and wants to see pictures by Jarek.
When Alina has found a student after four weeks who can take on this task, Jarek offers her to continue to accompany the child, as he hopes that he will gain professional advancement through deepening the acquaintance with Bertschi.
In the following, unpretentious images and dialogues develop the slowly growing affection between the painter and his little protégé as well as the violinist and her children. At the same time it is becoming increasingly clear that Bertschi does not like this approach, who is unfaithful to his wife, does not appreciate her performance as a musician and hardly spends time with his children, but still wants to get rid of his rival.
When Lilia switched to the renowned violin teacher Kocian as a master class student, she no longer needed Jarek's help because she could get there by bus in ten minutes. At the bus stop, she asks him why he hadn't accepted Bertschi's offer to arrange his participation in a competition run by the Guggenheim Foundation . When he tries to evade, she calls him fearful and tells him that her new teacher says you have to be brave and not be afraid.
He then quits the café and becomes a portrait painter on the street.
background
production
The film was produced by epo-film produktionsges.mbh and Oberon Film GmbH .
criticism
Sharp criticism comes from the actually existing club of Polish failure in Berlin. In the film it is not only “the image of the club is alienated, changed, falsified”, but the use of “the simplest stereotypes and prejudices” in portraying the club guests insults Poles: in the film they are “with vodka and cucumber in their hands , singing drunk Russian songs ”. The bitter conclusion of the CPV team is: “Poland jokes by Harald Schmidt almost have a pleasant nostalgic touch”.
For Heike Hupertz from the FAZ , since you are there is "a charming, reserved little film about what counts in life beyond the job." Michael Hofmann's script delivers "many, natural-looking dialogues", "his secret main characters are" Children without an exaggerated cuteness factor. ”Her conclusion: Since you've been here,“ even a feat in a small format. ”
Tilmann Gangloff from the Frankfurter Rundschau raves about the little leading actress: "The young Allegra Tinnefeld in her first role is a small miracle". While the “love story is more subcutaneous”, “the scenes with Jarek and Clara's children [...] are always imaginative, well played and funny”. "In addition to the many situations comical moments" are "the amusing dialog battles anyway the best thing about this film"
Benedikt Frank from the SZ says that since you've been here, "despite many strange situations", "no comedy". Although the title sounds "like the reactionary worldview of heartbreak television", the "shallow story is not told clumsily", but rather "skillfully balance the various elements".
Klaus Tittelbach saw a "poetic, airily narrated tragic comedy" that developed "a strange magic". He judges: "The actors are all to die for", "the characters irresistible, the actors gorgeous and the story is close to everyday life". It is focused in an "unconventional" way on the parentification of the "little heroine of everyday life"
References
- ARD page about the film
- ORF page about the film
- Since you're there in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Since you've been here. Vienna Film Fund, archived from the original on January 7, 2017 ; accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ a b CPV team: The film "Since you've been here" has nothing to do with the Club of Polish Failures in Berlin Mitte. Club of Polish Failures , archived from the original on February 9, 2017 ; accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Production level "Since you've been here". Vienna Film Commission , archived from the original on January 7, 2017 ; accessed on March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: The little violinist. (No longer available online.) In: FAZ . December 4, 2016, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 29, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Tilmann P. Gangloff: Not a lovely face. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 14, 2016, accessed March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Benedikt Frank: Shallow story, cleverly told. In: SZ . Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
- ^ Klaus Tittelbach: TV film "Since you are there". In: Tittelbach.tv . December 12, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .