Strawberry Bubblegums

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Movie
Original title Strawberry Bubblegums
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Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Benjamin Teske
script Cherokee Agnew
production Uwe Kolbe ,
Björn Vosgerau
music Daniel Hoffknecht ,
Gary Marlowe
camera Niklas Lindschau
cut Henrike Dosk ,
Anja Pohl
occupation

Strawberry Bubblegums is a German feature film with tragicomic elements from 2016 and the first feature-length film by director Benjamin Teske . It premiered on September 14, 2016 as the opening film of the Oldenburg Film Festival and was first broadcast on NDR television on November 3, 2016 .

action

17-year-old Lucy wants to be an actress and regularly goes to the video store to find good scenes for auditioning at a drama school. There she accidentally falls into a porn video from 1997 and she realizes that the leading actress, Vicky Venus , is her mother Paula. She feels lied to, because she grew up with the legend that she was conceived by a "beautiful stranger" during this time on a backpack tour through Sri Lanka . Now Lucy thinks she is a "porn accident", means to understand why she is so "screwed up" and has problems with boys. She falls out with her mother, with whom she has always been "a good team" up until then, and wants to find her father .

She succeeds in locating the only former colleague of her mother who still works under his old porn name: Udo Ochsenschwanz , a worn-out ex-porn actor who appears dressed as a gorilla in a sex shop.

With the money she had actually saved for her driver's license and with great persistence, Lucy persuades Udo, who is initially unwilling, to work with her to look for former colleagues who might be considered for paternity. For his part, he wants to use the girl to tap the old buddies as donors for his planned "end-of-time porn".

On Udo's motorcycle with sidecar, Lucy is now literally taking the wheel into her own hands for her tour through northern Germany, because Udo is drunk. While the journey seems cathartic for the girl , it leads the aged Udo back into a porn scene that no longer has anything to do with what he used to know so well.

In this developing story Lucy collects not only secretly DNA samples at the different men, but also slips again and again - at least initially - in new roles in her porn milieu offer. And she gets to know the perspectives of people from the scene who both broaden and sharpen their view of their own situation.

In the end, she leaves the giant teddy on the side of the road that she dragged along for the entire tour.

production

The film was produced by Desert Film , the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH), the nordmedia Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen / Bremen and, as part of the young talent program "Nordlichter", by the NDR .

The film was shot from October 20, 2015 to November 18, 2015 in Hamburg , Rosengarten , Buxtehude , Seevetal and Lütjensee .

reception

Performances

After the premiere in Oldenburg on September 14, 2016, Strawberry Bubblegums was also shown at the Hamburg Film Festival , where it ran out of competition in the “16: 9 - Television in the cinema” section. In October 2016 it had its cinema premiere at Kino Babylon Berlin. The first television broadcast took place on November 3, 2016 on NDR television .

criticism

Although Strawberry Bubblegums received little attention from supra-regional criticism (as of November 2016), it was judged positively.

The film is a "real surprise" because the "brave comedy" with "Lucy in Pornoland" tells the "fresh and unconventional" version of a hero's journey "and thus" falls completely outside the scope of the usual television film ".

With a "cautious camera" and "courage to detail" you follow an "intrepid" protagonist on her adventurous journey through northern German porn landscapes with "wicked karaoke bars" and garish porn film sets. The film is “never a bare moral accusation”, but at the same time voyeurism is “hardly served”, but “illusions about the porn industry [...] are buried” and there is “hardly any room for erotic fantasies”. According to a quote from NDR, the young leading actress Gloria Endres de Oliveira sees it similarly: "Strawberry Bubblegums does not glorify the porn industry, which was personally important to me."

The critics attest to her that she plays “the pubescent Lucy as a quasi elf-like creature simply terrific”, “with a lot of energy and youthful charisma”, her “big, […] astonished eyes” will be “not soon forgotten”.

André Hennicke's performance is also praised. He had "visible fun in the figure of the aged porn stallion" and delivered "a brilliant performance" with this role.

Director Teske “created a real cinematic gem with a strangely touching touch of poetic realism”, the “easy handling of heavy materials” from Teske's earlier works can also be seen in this film.

This is also thanks to “the script by Cherokee Agnew”, who “spiced the flick with humor, melancholy and irony” and delivered “some wonderful dry dialogues”.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Strawberry Bubblegums in the film portal , accessed on November 19, 2016
  2. ↑ Strawberry Bubblegums at nordmedia , accessed on November 19, 2016
  3. ↑ Aunt Emma goes to the cinema In: taz.de from September 22, 2016.
  4. ↑ First two-parter in the race for the Hamburg TV Producer Award. In: Blickpunkt: Film from August 16, 2016, accessed on November 24, 2016.
  5. ^ Babylon Program, October 2016 , accessed November 24, 2016
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Tilmann P. Gangloff: Strawberry Bubblegums on Tittelbach.tv , accessed on November 22, 2016
  7. ↑ a b c d e f Reinhard Tschapke: Wa (h) re Liebe opens the Oldenburg Film Festival , September 12, 2016 in the Nordwest-Zeitung , accessed on November 22, 2016
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h Strawberry Bubblegums , dpa -Stück, u. a. at the Kölner Stadtanzeiger , accessed on November 22, 2016
  9. ↑ a b Gabi Rudolph: Seen: “Strawberry Bubblegums” by Benjamin Teske , October 26, 2016 in Fast Forward Magazine , accessed on November 24, 2016
  10. ↑ Scott Roxborough: "'Strawberry Bubblegums' to Open Oldenburg Festival" , August 29, 2016 at The Hollywood Reporter : " In his previous films, Teske's fascination with society's outsiders was evident, as was his light touch with heavy subjects. Both aspects are on display in Strawberry Bubblegums ", accessed November 22, 2016
  11. ↑ Production Index of nordmedia , accessed on November 19, 2016
  12. ↑ Filmfest Oldenburg: André Hennike awarded for role in Northern Lights comedy “Strawberry Bubblegums” , press release from NDR , accessed on November 20, 2016