This Is Love (film)
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|---|---|
| Original title | This is love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English , Danish , Vietnamese |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matthias Glasner |
| script | Matthias Glasner |
| production |
Michael Cody , Frank Döhmann , Matthias Glasner , Lars Kraume , Jürgen Vogel |
| music |
Christoph Kaiser , Julian Maas |
| camera | Sonja Rome |
| cut |
Mona Bräuer , Heike Gnida |
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This Is Love is a German film drama from the director Matthias Glasner from 2009.
action
On the one hand, the film alternates several times in its plot between two narrative strands, which are connected with each other as the story progresses, and on the other hand, it repeatedly jumps back and forth through flashbacks.
The first storyline tells the story of two friends, Chris and Holger, who travel to Vietnam again and again to buy children out of forced prostitution , which they then illegally sell on to adoptive parents who are willing to pay in Germany. They succeed in doing this several times, until they take a girl named Jenjira with them to Germany, who, at nine and a half years, is, however, much older than the previous children. Since several attempts by Jenjira to mediate failed, Chris and Holger are faced with the decision to either hand Jenjira back to the child mafia in Vietnam or to get hold of the outstanding amount of money as quickly as possible. Ultimately, the friendship between the two of them breaks and Chris and Jenjira flee from the mafia. More and more a fateful affection and impossible love develops between the two, which inevitably has to end in chaos.
The second narrative thread is about Commissioner Maggie, who has left no stone unturned since her husband's disappearance without a trace 16 years ago: Many years of desperate search for her husband are suddenly replaced by self-pity and alcohol due to a shocking realization , to which she more and more expires. As it turns out, however, she is not entirely innocent of her husband's disappearance, as her closest colleague confesses to her one day. The knowledge of one's own guilt and the irreversibility of certain things in life grows more and more . There is a strong feeling of indifference and the only thing that still interests Maggie in her work is the strange connection between a man (Chris) who is in police custody after attempting suicide and a young Asian girl who has been swallowed up by the earth seems to be.
Awards
Rating: Particularly valuable.
The film ran in 2009 at the San Sebastián Film Festival in the Official Selection Competition .
Corinna Harfouch was nominated for the best female leading role at the German Film Awards 2010 .
Saskia Rüter, Managing Director of the Berlin company Untitled , was the first German to receive a TDC Award for her title design for the film in 2010 from the New York Type Directors Club .
criticism
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“[...] The narrative leaps in time as well as the intense color scheme and outstanding camera work give the drama its atmospheric tension, which is closely linked to the two self-destructive border crossers until the end. Intense exceptional cinema! "
“Haunting drama about two people wounded by love, which provokes an argument. [...] Matthias Glasner's [...] relentless drama with top performances by Corinna Harfouch and Jens Albinus. "
“A drastic love story. The web of time levels, storylines, truth, suspicion, madness and loneliness hits protagonists and viewers right in the heart and has a long lasting effect. [...] This overall artistic achievement deserves the title particularly valuable . "
“Dramaturgically tough, elliptically rolled up psychogram of two people chased by inner demons from two perspectives. The provocative film about the dark side of love turns out to be a pretentious construct, indifferent to the thematized border crossings. "
"[...] Glasner's follow-up film [is] absolutely worth seeing - albeit with reservations. Glasner does not resolve the introduced anxiety this time either. 'This Is Love' is a hospital for the mentally disabled. There is no consolation, just as little to escape and the warm moments are the catalyst of the progressive disruption. Love is always a 'but' and 'anyway' is always ambivalent, as the bitter final attitude testifies. Where the title implies uniqueness, the film shows deviation and abnormality. After viewing the film, the title alone offers great material for discussion. "
"This psychologically daring and perfectly staged and photographed drama with great acting achievements gets under your skin."
Web links
- This Is Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- This Is Love in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ THIS IS LOVE | Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize . max-ophuels-preis.de. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. 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. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b FBW press release . German Film and Media Rating (FBW) . 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- ↑ a b film plot and background . Kino.de . 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- ↑ Feature film This Is Love
- ↑ a b Jury statement . German Film and Media Rating (FBW) . 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- ↑ Title design of "This is Love" awarded MediaBiz.de, June 28, 2010, accessed on December 13, 2017
- ↑ This Is Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ This Is Love in the online film database
- ↑ This Is Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Alex Todorov: This is Love. In: FILMSTARTS.de. FILMSTARTS.de GbR, accessed on December 14, 2017 .
