The Kindness of Strangers

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Movie
German title The Kindness of Strangers - Little miracles among strangers
Original title The Kindness of Strangers
Country of production Denmark , Canada , Sweden , Germany , France
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lone Scherfig
script Lone Scherfig
production Malene Blenkov ,
Sandra Cunningham
music Andrew Lockington
camera Sebastian Blenkov
cut Cam McLauchlin
occupation

The Kindness of Strangers (Original title: The Kindness of Strangers ) is a feature film by Lone Scherfig from the year 2019 .

The drama opened the 69th Berlinale on February 7, 2019 , at which the film was shown in international competition.

action

Wintry New York City becomes the place of unexpected encounters between Clara, Marc, Alice, Jeff and John Peter:

The young mother Clara arrives in town with her sons Anthony and Jude. She is on the run from her violent husband Richard, who works as a police officer. When their car, in which they spend the nights, is towed, they receive help from the selfless nurse and amateur therapist Alice. Alice organizes the three beds in an emergency shelter.

When penniless Clara enters the Russian restaurant Winter Palace in search of something to eat , she meets Marc. Marc spent four years in jail wrongly and works at the Winter Palace as a restaurant manager for the eccentric Russian owner Timofey. He has learned to control his temper and avoids relatives and former friends. The naive and slow Jeff never lasts long in his jobs. He is lonely and longs for company.

Attorney John Peter works hard and has high moral standards, yet he often loses his cases. One of his few successes is the pardon of Marc, whom he tries to persuade to take part in a weekly therapy group called "Forgiveness". This is directed by Alice.

background

The film was shot in Toronto , Copenhagen and New York.

reception

The Kindness of Strangers received 1.6 out of four possible stars in the international reviews of the British trade magazine Screen International and thus took 14th place among all 16 Berlinale competition films. Emin Alpers A Story of Three Sisters and Nadav Lapid's Synonymes (3.0 each) topped the ranking.

Awards

With The Kindness of Strangers , Lone Scherfig competed for the second time after 2001 (at that time her film Italian for Beginners won the Jury Prize ) at the Berlin International Film Festival for the Golden Bear . But the film did not receive an award.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lone Scherfig's The Kindness of Strangers opens the 69th Berlinale . In: berlinale.de, December 6, 2018 (accessed February 7, 2019).
  2. ^ Dalton, Ben: Two films tie for top spot on Screen's final Berlin jury grid . In: screendaily.com, February 15, 2019 (accessed February 16, 2019).