Summer houses (2017)

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Movie
German title Summer houses
Country of production Germany
Publishing year 2017
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sonja Maria Kröner
script Sonja Maria Kröner
production Walker + Worm film
music Sebastian Fillenberg
camera Julia Daschner
cut Ulrike Tortora
occupation

Sommerhäuser is a German film drama directed by Sonja Maria Kröner from 2017 .

action

In the mid-1970s, on the day great-grandma Sophie's funeral, lightning struck an old tree on the family's weekend property. The family consists of Sophie's direct descendants, namely Mathilde, Ilse and Erich, his wife Frieda and their children Gitti and Bernd. Bernd is married to Eva and the two are the parents of Lorenz and Jana. Gitti is Inga's single mother.

As every year, the family spends this summer vacation on the property. Its now possible sale as building land is in the room and the children are worried because the radio reports about a kidnapped girl. Meanwhile, Jana, Lorenz and his friend Frank are exploring the overgrown garden of their mysterious neighbor and cheating on each other while keeping books about dead wasps. Cousin Inga is usually left out because she is still too young.

Erich repairs the electrical connection damaged by the lightning strike, Bernd tinkers with the children on the tree house and Ilse befriends a woman who was bitten by Ilse's dog. Gitti and her sister-in-law Eva exchange meanness and Inga wants her father to visit. In between, a wasp's nest has to be removed with combined forces, which almost goes wrong.

At Inga's birthday party, the argument escalated because the other children, angry about having been verbally abused by Gitti, refused to let her into the tree house, although her mother had assured her that she would. In the evening it starts to rain and Inga sneaks out of the house to climb the tree house by herself. She slips and has an accident.

reception

The film was consistently received positively by the critics.

Ulrich Sonnenschein from epd notes that although you need some time to organize the characters and understand the relationships, the film is a coherent family portrait, a choreography of the guerrilla war between siblings, aunts and sister-in-law, which is abruptly ended by a final blow . He sees the great achievement of the film in the fact that the film remains gripping despite all the banalities and one shudders from one's own everyday life.

Katja Belousova on Welt.de attests summer houses to be a very multi-faceted yet coherent film. The sense of style of the film and its subtle undertones are so skillfully combined that it is incredibly fun to watch this parable about family life. No word would be too much, no camera too restless, no emotion too little. The force with which Kröner ends her debut film would also be impressive.

On Spiegel.de , Peter Luley remarks that the relentlessness of the film reminds him of Finsterworld and summarizes that Kröner not only succeeds in creating a coherent portrait of the time without any gimmicky or any cluttering of music, but also in making timeless truths visible.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for summer houses . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Ulrich Sonnenschein: Critique of summer houses. In: Evangelical press service . October 20, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  3. Katja Belousova: What would a family be without a naked great-aunt? In: Welt.de . October 26, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  4. Peter Luley: Archaic, merciless, familiar. In: Spiegel.de . October 26, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  5. "Summer Houses" is the big winner. June 30, 2017, accessed June 23, 2020 .
  6. These are the winners of the Bavarian Film Prize. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . January 19, 2018, accessed June 23, 2020 .