Day and night (film)
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| Original title | day and night |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Sabine Derflinger |
| script | Eva Testor , Sabine Derflinger |
| production | Mobile film production |
| music | Gil Chéri, Gilbert Handler, Petra Zöpnek |
| camera | Eva Testor, AAC |
| cut | Karin Ressler |
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Day and Night is a fictional film by Austrian director Sabine Derflinger from 2010. The focus of the tragic-comic and episodic story is two Viennese art students who - partly because there is not enough money, partly out of curiosity and a thirst for adventure - at an escort Hire service as call girls.
action
At the beginning of the film are the two Viennese students Hanna and Lea. Both come from the country , both are new to the city and both keep their heads above water with temporary jobs in the catering industry . Since there is not enough money from the waiters back and forth, they decide to take up the job offer from an escort agency. The agency is run by Mario and his wife Sissi. The agency is small; the manners accordingly informal. Sissi teaches the basics of the pay sex trade in a rather casual way. Sissi's advice to Lea: “You have to give the customer the feeling that he is something special. If you can do that, then you are also something special for him, you see? ” And: “ Perfume and body lotion must be of the same brand . A smell, a story, remember that. More confuses the men . ” This is the first rule. Rule number two is: cash in first.
The balancing act between studying, pay-sex business and private life is initially rather unspectacular. Lea meets Claus, an old friend from the village , in the disco . When she is about to get involved in a fuss with him, she is ordered to see a customer. The art history student Hanna makes friends with Harald ( Adrian Topol ), whom she met while studying, but leaves him in the dark about her part-time job. The encounters with the escort customers are presented as casual, incidental, and sometimes banal. There is the old man wearing women's underwear under his clothes. There is the alert young manager who wants that special kick and likes to have sex in the elevator . The nice family man who steals away from his family for pay sex . The inhibited, dependent offspring from a good family. At first glance, all of these meetings remain on the surface - although the new job not only comes up with comic situations, but also with uncomplicated, generally pleasant meetings. Joy and sorrow: Pay sex - a job just like any other.
As the film progresses, the different worlds get more and more confused. Lea, who wants to study acting , fails the entrance exam at the drama school . The escort meetings are also getting more and more serious. Subtle but omnipresent border crossings are increasing, as is the steadily growing alienation from studies. Step by step Lea and Hanna notice: The two worlds are not easily compatible with each other - they cannot even be clearly separated from each other. A key experience is Hanna's unexpected reunion with Harald - this time in the form of a customer date for which she was ordered. The experience that forces both women to make a decision is the meeting with a businessman, which begins in a pleasant atmosphere and ends in massive border crossings. The end of the film: Lea gives up the pay-sex job and returns to the country disaffected. Hanna calls herself Lea and carries on. The friendship between the two is irrevocably broken.
Production, performances and awards
The idea for the film came from Mobilefilm co-founder Eva Testor . She chose Sabine Derflinger for the implementation. As the director announced in an interview, the production was less about the spectacular side of prostitution and the associations of sex and crime that often resonate in the background. Rather, the pivotal point was the question of what traces the chosen circumstances leave behind on those involved. As a documentary filmmaker , Derflinger was familiar with the subject before filming began. On the one hand, the script by co-author Eva Testor ensured the authenticity of the story. In order to familiarize themselves with the conditions, Testor, Derflinger and the leading actresses visited relevant places where they talked to the women about their living conditions and the motives for working in the prostitution industry.
The shooting of the film took a total of seven weeks - six of them in Vienna and one in the Ötztal and Paznaun valleys . The camera was carried out by author and producer Eva Testor. The film was shot on a Moviecam Compact on highly sensitive Kodak Vision2 film of the type 5260. The music - used comparatively cautiously - came from Gil Chéri, Gilbert Handler and Petra Zöpnek, the sound design from Veronika Hlawatsch.
The film was released at the end of 2010 and opened in Austrian cinemas in December. The German premiere took place on January 13, 2011 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . At the end of October 2011, day and night was part of the program of the 45th Hof Film Festival . In 2012 she took part day and night in the program of the Schwerin Film Festival and the Split Film Festival, in 2012 at the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival and the Geneva Film Festival. In the same year the film opened in 15 German cinemas. Anna Rot was named Best Actress at the New York Film Festival 2011. Her colleague Magdalena Kronschläger was a nominated candidate for the Austrian Film Prize 2011 .
Reviews
Thematically as well as dramaturgically in the sophisticated entertainment segment, it found its target audience day and night, especially in the arthouse cinema and festival area. The majority of the reviews were positive, some enthusiastic. Because of the subject matter, isolated reviews drew comparisons with Sonia Rossi's milieu experience report Fucking Berlin and Studentin, 19,…, a French scandal book title that was made into a film soon after the book was published due to its success. The Berlin city magazine zitty particularly emphasized the coherence of the description of the milieu and wrote: “(...) Director Sabine Derflinger now shows in her adequately frank film with a lot of empathy how this work changes the two protagonists against their will. And it shows the dirtiness, the unadorned sex and the sometimes unbelievably banal reality in this world that is hidden for many. "
The Austrian daily Der Standard gave a similar assessment : “One of the strengths of the film is that and in what way day and night the situation is kept open in a playful way, women triumph once and then again as service providers. Just like the sober staging of bodies and sex or the elaboration of ambivalences and gray areas. " The portal kino.de praised the good representation of the two main characters: " Your suitors turn out to be harmless freaks on the verge of the ridiculous stay too human. For the frivolous - hedonistic Lea and the shy-uptight Hannah a (power) game begins, the rules of which they don't have as much under control as they imagine. "
The online cinema portal skip.at also put the coherence of the staging in the center of its criticism: “The unspeculative script by Eva Testor and Sabine Derflinger, who, as a director after full throttle and 42plus with day and night, is again delivering a very precise social study, is turning about modern urban women, their self-image and their position on sexuality. It is as casually realistic as it is without illusions, and that fascinates and moves from the first to the last minute, also thanks to the excellent and courageous performances of the actors. Despite all the explicit and nudity, day and night is not a particularly daring film, but rather draws from it that life is excitement enough. "
Spiegel Online reviewed Sabine Derflinger: "... her film is a carefully observed, mean, unwavering and sometimes even surprising feminist polemic."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for day and night . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 557 V).
- ↑ a b c d day and night. The film ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Information on the film's website, accessed on May 17, 2013
- ↑ Detailed information - day and night ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , cinema-paradiso.at, accessed on May 17, 2013
- ↑ Interview with Sabine Derflinger in the press booklet for the film (online version as PDF; 2.7 MB) ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Sabine Derflinger's “Day and Night” now in the cinema ( memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Philipp von Lucke, kameramann.de, January 18, 2012
- ^ A b Wolfgang Höbel: Hofer Filmtage: Three crosses for a portion of hatred of men. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, October 31, 2011, accessed September 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Sabine Derflinger - Festivals / Awards , list of festival participations and awards from day and night on the website of director Sabine Derflinger, accessed on May 17, 2013
- ↑ Day and night - what does an illusion cost? ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Christina Freko, Monsters & Critics.de, January 11, 2012
- ↑ a b Day and Night , kino.de, accessed on May 17, 2013
- ↑ Day and night ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Martin Schwarz, zitty, December 22, 2011
- ↑ Who pays, creates , Isabella Reicher, Der Standard, October 8, 2010
- ↑ Film info on “Day and Night” , Klaus Hübner, skip.de, accessed on May 17, 2013
Web links
- Official web presence day and night ( Memento of November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Day and night in the Internet Movie Database (English)