Better in love

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Movie
German title Better in love
Original title The rebound
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Beard friendly
script Beard friendly
production Bart Freundlich,
Tim Perell ,
Mark Gill ,
Robert Katz
music Clint Mansell
camera Jonathan Freeman
cut Christopher Tellefsen
occupation
German cinema poster (excerpt)

Dear in love (Original title: The Rebound ) is a romantic comedy film by the director and screenwriter Bart Freundlich . It was released in German cinemas on December 31, 2009.

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The 40-year-old mother, Sandy, led a peaceful life until she discovered that her husband was having an affair. Sandy doesn't accept that. She moves headlong to New York with her children . There she wants to start a new life. So it happens that she is looking for a babysitter and meets Aram, a 24-year-old waiter from a coffee shop who gets on well with Sandy's children, and entrusts him with the children. Aram has also just had a failed marriage because his wife only married him because she wanted to get a green card through the marriage and cheated on him. From then on, Aram takes care of Sandy's offspring as a babysitter, but over time Sandy and Aram get closer until they fall in love.

Sandy becomes pregnant by Aram . However, the doctor determines that there was an ectopic pregnancy . Sandy draws a line and ends her relationship with Aram.

Aram decides to let go of Sandy and go on a trip around the world . Meanwhile, Sandy has had a steep career as a television presenter and lives happily with her children. Years later, the two meet again by chance in a restaurant. There Aram introduces his adopted son and sits down with Sandy and her family. The last scene shows how both of them are holding hands again under the table.

background

Better in love was filmed in Istanbul , Paris and New York City . Filming began on April 17, 2008.

The film premiered on February 6, 2009 in Germany at the European Film Market . It was shown in Austrian cinemas on December 29, 2009, and was shown in German cinemas from December 31, 2009. The cinema release in US cinemas followed on December 25, 2010. On July 23, 2010, the film was released by Universum Film GmbH in Germany on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .

Almost 21.8 million US dollars were raised worldwide . In Germany, the film was seen by 211,720 moviegoers.

Joanna Gleason's character Roberta Finkelstein mentions that she used to work for Ralph Lauren , a nod to the television series Friends , in which Gleason played Jennifer Aniston's boss at Ralph Lauren in the role of Rachel Karen Green.

Film music

The following music tracks were used in the film:

criticism

The TV magazine Prisma panned the film: “Seldom have you seen such a bad comedy! The course of the story is clear after a few minutes anyway, so only funny gags could help. But they are so bad, overdone and without timing that you can only clap your hands in front of your face and quickly want to run away. The actors also act worse than grimacing puppets. A horror! "

The lexicon of international film said: "Solid knitted romantic comedy that tries to make up their act by a ribald and direct language, the lack of grip."

Brigitte Preissler from Welt Online summed up “the main conflict of the protagonist [is] incomprehensible” and asked herself in view of the film: “What problem does Sandy have with a serious relationship with a man 15 years younger? Except for Sandy and her dubious film friend Daphne (Kate Jennings Grant) it is really clear to everyone from the start that she has found the ideal partner for a new beginning in the responsible, child-loving Aram, who, like her, is living in divorce. So why does the poor thing still have to travel the world for another five years, adopt an Indian boy and take a well-paid job before she answers him? "

In the opinion of Peter Koberger from Kino.de, “[the film] seems more amusing and more personable than many others, because [Bart Freundlich] knows how to use wit and distance to greater tastelessness and exaggeration. And if you don't want to experience Zeta-Jones as a self-confident hunter but as an insecure deer, you get a rare chance here. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Lieber in love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 273 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Lieber in love . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ a b budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ a b Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  6. ^ Company will stay private and get new funds , filmdept, Dave McNary, Pamela McClintock, August 5, 2010
  7. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2009 on insidekino.de , accessed on December 15, 2011
  8. ↑ Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  9. ↑ IMDb soundtrack
  10. ↑ Dear in love on prisma.de , accessed on December 15, 2011
  11. ↑ Better in love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 12, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  12. ^ Film criticism , Welt Online , Brigitte Preissler, December 30, 2009
  13. ^ Filmkritik , Kino.de , Peter Koberger