Full Paula!
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Full Paula! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Malte Wirtz |
| script | Malte Wirtz |
| production | Malte Wirtz, Max Fuhrmann |
| music | Zohar Bonnie |
| camera | Christian von Spee |
| cut | Malte Wirtz, Mona Bräuer |
| occupation | |
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Full Paula! (international title: 5 Stories in 4 Days ) is Malte Wirtz's debut film. The cinema release was on September 17th, 2015 in the distribution of the Berlin independent film studio Unfiltered Artists . The premiere took place on the same day in the Babylon cinema .
action
Five young people get to know each other during a casting for a musical: Paula, Louise, Randolf, Max and Donnie. It seems like the course for love and career is being set here. Randolf falls in love with Louise, who is not interested in him, but rather in Donnie, while something is also developing between Paula and Max. Paula wants to save her acting career with the casting, but the supposed options for a new professional or private start result in a lot of chaos.
background
The film is the first feature film to be shot on the Blackmagic Cinema camera. In an interview, Ulrich Faßnacht speaks about a possible second part Voll Randy! by clarifying all open questions. The silent film scene in the middle of the film looks like an homage to Buster Keaton . Gregor Ries from kino-zeit.de recognizes the homage principle of Marty Feldman . The playful opening credits in Super 8 (film format) are reminiscent of the opening sequence of Hexenkessel , an early work by Martin Scorsese . The silence scene in both films and the French corner restaurant (gang a part) suggest an allusion to the film The Outsiders Gang by Jean-Luc Godard . But it can also be a reminiscence of Quentin Tarantino's film production company A Band Apart .
criticism
Spielfilm.de gave 4 out of 5 stars and wrote: “A celebration of being spoiled, which thrives entirely on the charm of the improvised. [...] Again and again the five characters miss and misunderstand each other; These young townspeople don't really want to succeed at anything - before they know it, tomorrow is today and everything threatens to go completely wrong again. […] Conclusion: Malte Wirtz's low-budget work tells in a tragic-comic way, with slapstick, theatricality and pleasure in nonsense, of the lack of the 'right time'. "
The film service ruled that the film lived “on the willingness of the actors to improvise wildly”, but that “as a confused indie comedy, it soon lost sight of every goal”. The "staged flirtation with the absurd [...] does not turn into a trashy, amateurish anti-pose", but drifts "in diffuse proximity to nonsense, usually quite toothless through soap opera terrain".
The Passauer Neue Presse wrote: "The nice thing about a no-budget film is that nobody can talk you into it," ends Wirtz, "it makes you very independent". It was precisely this independence of this charming comedy that tickled the laughing muscles of the audience, who rewarded the evening with applause. "
Indie cinema : “More important than the episodic plot, which somehow emerges, is the fluffy staging anyway […] In almost Dadaist dialogues, the characters talk about this and that, nothing and nothing again or just past each other. The five confused daydreamers are united by the fact that they are treading on the spot with their plans for the future. Instead, they get tangled up in everyday life and miss one good opportunity after another. A very typical capital city story, which Malte Wirtz puts into practice in a rather untypical way. "
filme-welt.com : "Always sympathetic, lovable and realistic ensemble comedy about the private and professional chaos of five modern city dwellers."
Festivals
On September 19, 2015, Voll Paula! at the 3rd Indian Film Festival and received a Special Festival Mention at the NIFF -16 in Noida .
continuation
There is filming for the sequel in Cologne and Berlin. The second part will be full Rita! hot and Karsten Speck is back.
Web links
- Official website
- Official website of the film studio
- Full Paula! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Full Paula! at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed December 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Full Paula! kino.de, accessed on December 18, 2015 (background).
- ↑ Full Paula! (No longer available online.) Kopfachterbahn.de, archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 18, 2015 (interview). 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.
- ↑ Gregor Ries: Full of Paula! kino-zeit.de, accessed on December 18, 2015 (background).
- ↑ Technical Specifications. IMDB, accessed on August 9, 2015 (camera technology).
- ↑ Background. Filmjournalisten.de, September 17, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2017 (frame of reference).
- ↑ Andreas Köhnemann: Full Paula! Spielfilm.de, accessed on December 18, 2015 (review).
- ↑ Alexandra Wach: Full Paula! Filmdienst , 19/2015, accessed on December 18, 2015 (short review ).
- ↑ Full Paula! Passauer Neue Presse , 12/2016, accessed on December 14, 2016 (short review).
- ↑ Christian Horn: Full Paula! indiekino, accessed December 18, 2015 (review).
- ↑ Björn Schneider: Full Paula! filme-welt.com, accessed on December 18, 2015 (review).
- ↑ Karsten Speck is working on his new career after the crash. BZ, accessed on February 13, 2017 (shooting report).
