We're fine
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | We're fine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henri Steinmetz |
| script | Alan Smithee |
| production |
Stefan Arndt , Andrea Schütte , Uwe Schott , Andreas Eicher |
| camera | Bernhard Keller |
| cut | Lorna Hoefler Steffen |
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We're doing well is a German feature film by Henri Steinmetz from 2015. In the lead role, Franz Rogowski plays the leader of a clique of five young people who roam a big city in the summer heat.
The film had its world premiere in the competition of the ZFF Zurich Film Festival in the section "Focus Switzerland, Germany, Austria", as well as in the competition of Crossing Europe 2016. The cinema release in Germany was on January 28, 2016.
action
The five unequal friends Tubbie, Tim, Marie, Birdie and Jojo spend the summer together in search of maximum ease and satisfaction. You drift aimlessly through the big city, unsure about your own self-image and left alone by the environment. In doing so, they try desperately to recreate happiness that has long passed or has never been experienced. The dynamic of the group changes constantly and leaves individual traces on the friends. At these changes, which seem inevitable, the clique slowly threatens to break apart.
production
The film was produced by X Films in collaboration with Anton Buchwieser and Ciné +. A great deal of effort was put into the costume and production design. Andy Visit was responsible for the costume design and Beatrice Schultz for the production . Frédéric Jaeger from the Berliner Zeitung explains about the use of the synonym Alan Smithee for the script : "It is the pseudonym for authors or directors who withdraw their names from a work."
criticism
Harald Mühlbeyer on Kinozeit.de writes: "Debut director Henri Steinmetz succeeds in drawing the tensions within the group as sharply as he portrays the absurdity of their existence."
Hella Wittenberg from yaez writes: “Henri Steinmetz's debut sounds quite unusual in terms of content and it is in terms of implementation. Those who stay tuned will be rewarded! "
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung writes: “A surreal, eerie fairy tale is the story of a group of young people who wander through a city. First of all, this is due to Franz Rogowski, this actor who always plays a little differently, more physically, more directly, and in such a way that in each of his films ('Love Steaks', 'Victoria') you could just stare at him the whole time . But that would mean missing the strangely beautiful pictures, the exaggerated view of a waltz dance in the swimming pool, for example. Because this other comes, secondly, from the atmosphere, which is timeless and placeless, antiquated and present, playful and threatening at the same time; you can tell where the director learned: like Michael Haneke on LSD: If this is what the future of German cinema should look like, then we would actually be doing pretty well. "
Rudolf Worschech from Epd Film writes: “The total fixation of this group on itself is a bit reminiscent of ' The Dreamers ' - to give the comparison high marks. In the end, Tubbie will vent his jealousy in an outburst of violence. Perhaps, even higher, this could be an allusion to ' Clockwork Orange '. You can definitely feel the style will of this project, which does not fit into a whole. "
Thomas Hummitzsch from intellectures writes: “In the Mephistophelian role of Tubbie, Franz Rogowski once again shows himself to be Germany's most exciting young actor, who can create whole worlds and bring them to collapse with facial expressions and gestures, voice modulation and haunting looks. Tubbie's strength lies in exposing and showing off others, his weakness is the loneliness that he cannot stand. That is why he cares so much about Marie, a Lolita that Vladimir Nabokov and Jack Kerouac could not have described better, who curiously lures with their charms in order to impress the handsome Tim (Jonas Dassler). Maresi Riegner gives this lascivious nanny a magical aura which, despite all the attraction, still suggests a remnant of childish clumsiness. "
Frank Arnold from Tip Berlin writes: “Too bad that the name Alan Smithee always has to be used when something has gone wrong in a film production. 'We're fine', which confuses the portrayal of boredom with creating it, turns out to be another defective copy from the well-known X-Films company after 'Mädchen im Eis'. "
Thomas Abeltshauser from Hamburger Abendblatt writes: “A concept that would have clout if it really called the adult world with its conventions into question, but the radical of this constellation is not able to implement the young filmmaker Henri Steinmetz. The result remains dull, meaningless, no matter. And that is exactly the difference to his mentor and professor at the Vienna Film School, Michael Haneke , who turned a dreary basic attitude like this one in ' Funny Games ' into great cinematic art. Here it remains only poorly made craft and mere assertion. "
Web links
- We are doing well in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- zff.com
- www.indiekino.de
- www.sueddeutsche.de
- www.torinofilmfest.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for us is fine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 156089 / K).
- ↑ Susanne Hermanski: Wolf among sheep. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 31, 2015, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ We're fine - We are fine. Crossing Europe, accessed May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ We're fine. (No longer available online.) Andy visit , archived from the original on February 19, 2018 ; accessed on May 23, 2018 . 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.
- ↑ We're fine. Beatrice Schultz, accessed May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Frédéric Jaeger: “We're fine” tension without dissolution. In: Berliner Zeitung. Berliner Verlag GmbH, January 27, 2016, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Harald Mühlbeyer: We're fine. kinozeit.de, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ We're fine . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine . February 26, 2016, p. 48 .
- ↑ Rudolf Worschech: Critique of 'We are fine'. Epd Film , January 21, 2016, accessed May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Generation of lost souls. intellectures, February 4, 2016, accessed May 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Frank Arnold: In the cinema: “We're fine”. In: Tip Berlin . Tip Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, January 27, 2016, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Abeltshauser: Hardly anything is right about “We're doing well”. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Zeitungsgruppe Hamburg GmbH, January 28, 2016, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
