True (short film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | True |
| Original title | True |
| Country of production | France , Germany |
| original language | English , French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Tykwer |
| script | Tom Tykwer |
| production | Maria Köpf |
| camera | Frank Griebe |
| cut | Mathilde Bonnefoy |
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True is a short film by the German film director Tom Tykwer from 2004 and part of the compilation film Paris, je t'aime , released in January 2007 . The short film was shot in just four days (from August 6th to 9th, 2002) in Paris and had its world premiere on February 8th, 2004 at the Berlin International Film Festival.
action
Blind Thomas (Melchior Beslon) gropes for his ringing phone. The loud, demanding voice of his girlfriend, the actress Francine ( Natalie Portman ), can be heard, telling him that she is leaving him. Disappointed, Thomas throws the phone back down and begins to sort through his memories with Francine. He realizes that both of them made small mistakes that divided the relationship a little. He is sad and suffering when the phone suddenly rings again. It is Francine who tells him that she went through a melodramatic passage from a script with him. Thomas is silent the whole time, until he is asked if he is listening at all, then he says: “No. I see you."
this and that
- Tykwer initially did not want to realize True because the financing was not secured.
- Natalie Portman worked on True for a small fee .
- The version contained in the episode film Paris, je t'aime is 7 minutes long, while the version shown as a supporting film for Was uutz die Liebe in thought in German cinemas and contained on the Tom Tykwer DVD box is 10 minutes.
Awards
- 2004 - German Short Film Award in gold in the feature films with a running time of more than seven to 30 minutes
- 2004 - Nomination for the best short film at the Berlinale
literature
- Michael Staiger: "Are you even listening?" - "No. I see you." - On the audiovisual narrative form of Tom Tykwer's short film "True". In: Literature in the classroom - texts of contemporary literature for school. 11, No. 2, 2010, ISSN 1615-6447 , pp. 89-98.