Sweethearts (2019)
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| Original title | Sweethearts |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Karoline Herfurth |
| script | Monika Fässler Karoline Herfurth |
| production |
Christopher Doll Lothar Hellinger |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Daniel Gottschalk |
| cut | Simon Gstöttmayr |
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Sweethearts is a German feature film directed by Karoline Herfurth from 2019 . The tragicomic action film is based on the joint script by Herfurth and the author Monika Fässler and tells of the two dissimilar women Franny and Mel, played by Herfurth and Hannah Herzsprung , who despite all the circumstances unexpectedly become friends after Mel is forced to follow Franny a robbery as a hostage on the run from the police and her criminal friend Frank, played by Ronald Zehrfeld .
Was produced Sweethearts of the Hellinger Doll Film Production and Warner Bros. Film Productions with funding from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF). The shooting took place from May to July 2018 in Berlin and Brandenburg . In addition to Herfurth and Herzsprung, Frederick Lau , Anneke Kim Sarnau , Frederic Linkemann , David Schütter and Mona Pirzad appeared in front of the camera. After its release on February 14, 2019, the production received an overwhelmingly positive response from critics.
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Fanny, a fearful woman suffering from panic attacks, is threatened with a gun and taken hostage in Berlin by Mel, a single mother and part-time diamond thief. An unconventional friendship quickly develops between the two very different women. While the SEK leader Ingrid von Kaiten tries to put an end to the thief, the policeman Harry becomes the second hostage.
Reviews
Antje Wessel found on Filmstarts.de that Herfurth with Sweethearts - similar to SMS für Dich (2016) - proves once again that characters don't necessarily have to be funny to make the situation funny. With her debut script, screenwriter Monika Fäßler hit "in a similar notch and relies on down-to-earth characters in her crazy scenario before the situation gradually escalates on its own." Although the characters stand for certain "stereotypes of comedy cinema", they are "complexly written" and still have enough corners and edges for both leading actresses so that they do not just degenerate into one-dimensional sympathizers. In Sweethearts, "strongly staged action scenes and a good pinch of dry humor meet exciting characters".
The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the production as "exuberant adventure comedy", in which "a very soulful, but never sentimental heart" beats. The newspaper thought it was “adorable how Monika Fäßler, as a screenwriter, and Karoline Herfurth, as a director, turn small moments into running gags, how they slowly increase from a smile to a laugh. That alone is a gift for the German film, which is otherwise dominated at the box office by the late adolescent Schweiger - Schweighöfer foolishness. "The characters are quickly" to be taken to the heart "and Herfurth shows" a fine sense of timing and rhythm , but also the ability for extensive body comedy ”. Many scenes would also be supported by her soundtrack, "in which old popular songs alternate with the latest songs by Billie Eilish ".
In epd Film , Anke Sterneborg judged that the film initially “got off to a bumpy start”, but with increasing playtime it “very soon developed an absolutely thrilling dynamic” and offered “fun and cheeky” entertainment. Sweethearts balance "lively [...] on a fine line between light comedy and exciting action adventure", and put "en passant wonderfully hair-raising situations and lots of lovable staff in scene". Herfurth gives “Berlin such a certain LA flair with neon-colored accents ”. With Frederick Lau, Uwe Preuß and Cordula Stratmann, Herfurth is "gradually building up a small, fine" family ", which is joined by illustrious newcomers such as Ronald Zehrfeld and Anneke Kim Sarnau".
Berliner Zeitung editor Sarah Pepin found that the plot of the film offered “the possibility of unusual scenic tensions” and was “also suitable as a quiet commentary on being a mother between callousness and emotionality”. It is “nothing fundamentally new that Herfurth presents, but still entertaining. The locations in Sweethearts are cheap motels, strip clubs and auto repair shops, the aesthetic is based on American bank robbery films. This is consistent in itself, but difficult to associate with Berlin as a city. It is more difficult to forgive continuity errors: That a Berlin film wants to sell the viewer in a scene that the Komische Oper is opposite the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz ”.
success
Sweethearts celebrated its world premiere on February 4, 2019 at the Zoo Palast in Berlin. The production was finally released for public screening on February 14, 2019 by Warner Bros. Pictures . According to press reports, the production reached 45,000 visitors and sales of 390,000 euros in 385 cinemas after the end of the first screening weekend. The tragic comedy rose to number 10 in the German cinema charts.
Locations
The shooting for Sweethearts took place among other things. a. in Berlin, Brandenburg an der Havel in the district of Höhenstücke, Trebbin (Teltow-Fläming) and in Luckau (Dahme-Spreewald)
Web links
- Sweethearts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for sweethearts . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 186556 / V).
- ↑ Antje Wessel: The poster lays the wrong track - luckily! In: filmstarts.de . Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
- ↑ The hard and the delicate. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Critique of Sweethearts. In: epd film . Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Sarah Pepin: "Sweethearts" by Karoline Herfurth at times a good and entertaining comedy. In: Berliner Zeitung . Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Much applause at "Sweethearts" premiere . Focus: film . Retrieved October 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b Thomas Schultze: Kinocharts Deutschland: Dragon is sweet . Meedia.de. Retrieved October 8, 2019.
- ^ Hot shooting in Berlin-Brandenburg's summer of the century. In: Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg. August 7, 2018, accessed February 17, 2020 .