Sleepless in New York
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sleepless in New York, Sleepless in New York |
| Original title | Sleepless in New York |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Frei |
| production | Christian Frei |
| music |
Max Richter Eleni Karaindrou Gija Kancheli |
| camera | Peter Indergand |
| cut | Christian Frei |
| occupation | |
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Helen Fisher | |
Sleepless in New York is a 2014 documentary by Oscar- nominated director and producer Christian Frei and deals with the topic of lovesickness.
Three protagonists are accompanied in their everyday life so that the viewer participates directly in their suffering. The anthropologist Helen Fisher explains what processes take place in the lovesick brain and how you can free yourself from them.
Helen Fisher
The anthropologist Helen Fisher is also called "Doctor Love" by her colleagues. She looks into the brains of people in love and those who have just been abandoned and is amazed at this "madness of the gods". She is considered a leading expert in the biology of love. No other scientist and her work are referred to as often in love studies as Fisher. Der Spiegel describes her as "one of the world's most famous love experts". Helen Fisher has written five best-sellers about love that have been translated into twenty languages:
- The four types of love: who suits whom and why. Droemer Knaur Verlag, 2009
- Why we love: the chemistry of passion. Patmos Verlag, 2005
- The strong sex. Heyne Verlag, 2002
- Anatomy of love. Droemer Knaur Verlag, 1993
- The original contract. Sexual foundations of human development. Lübbe Verlag, 1983
Helen Fisher was the world's first researcher to begin scanning the brains of lovesick patients with a functional magnetic resonance tomograph . She found out that the same regions become active as in the case of severe addiction to heroin, cocaine or amphetamines. And that lovesickness can cause physical pain, comparable to toothache.
Quotes from the movie
“When he grabbed my hand I could feel my uterus going: Yes, I'm gonna have your babies. I wanna have your babies! "
“If I close my eyes I remember how he smells… That drug… I just want a hit. Just one fix of that smell ... "
“When you get rejected in love you still continue to love this person. In fact you love them even harder. "
“Why am I passing by her house almost every night? Sometimes I even park on her street. Why do I do this? "
Quote director
«I like to enter new terrain, even dangerous ones. My most famous film is set in the war. And I've shot in space, in Cuba and Afghanistan and on really difficult terrain. Where filming actually seems impossible. I thought: maybe you can document this acute state of lovesickness in the film. We hung up flyers all over New York: Have you been rejected in love and can't let go? »
Festivals and Awards
- Visions du Réel International Documentary Film Festival Nyon 2014
- Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival Canada 2014
- DOK.fest International Documentary Film Festival Munich 2014
- PLANETE + DOC Film Festival Warsaw 2014
- DOCVILLE International Documentary Film Festival Belgium 2014
Web links
- Website of the film
- Sleepless in New York in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Das Magazin , October 11, 2014