Like the first time
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Like the first time |
| Original title | Hope Springs |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Frankel |
| script | Vanessa Taylor |
| production |
Todd Black Guymon Casady |
| music | Theodore Shapiro |
| camera | Florian Ballhaus |
| cut | Steven Weisberg |
| occupation | |
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Like the first time (Original title: Hope Springs ) is a romantic comedy from 2012 with the main actors Meryl Streep , Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell . Directed by David Frankel , who already directed Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada . The film was released in the US on August 8, 2012, and in Germany on September 27, 2012.
content
The film is about Kay and her husband Arnold, whose passion has dried up after 31 years of marriage. The story begins with an approach by Kay. Both sleep in separate rooms. While she tries to make Arnold lustful with new sleepwear , he only has eyes for his magazine. When Kay asks if she could sleep with him, he refuses, indicating that she is slightly unwell. The next morning everything seems to go as usual: Kay is preparing breakfast for her husband, while Arnold is reading his newspaper. They say goodbye with a quick kiss and then both go to work: Arnold as a successful partner in a tax consultancy , Kay in a clothing store.
At the store, Kay asks her colleague if it is possible to change a marriage. She replies that this would be rather unrealistic and would only work if one of the partners risks something. In the evening, on the occasion of their 31st wedding anniversary, Kay and Arnold invited their adult children and their partners. Kay reports that they bought each other a new pay TV subscription for the occasion . Later, when the guests have already left, you can see Arnold who fell asleep in his armchair. The Gulf Channel is broadcasting a program on television . Kay wakes him up and they go to sleep, each in their own bedroom. At night, Kay cannot sleep out of frustration.
The next day she finds a guidebook in a bookstore called You Can Have the Marriage You Want . While still in the car, she begins to read the book. In the evening she looks at the homepage of the author and therapist Dr. Field from Maine . A few days later, at breakfast, she presented Arnold with a brochure from Dr. Field. Arnold refuses this, but Kay tells him that she has already booked the therapy. Arnold sullenly demands that the therapy be canceled .
Kay tries to make the stay more palatable for him, since they both have the therapy session in the morning and in the afternoon he can sit on the beach and enjoy the area. Kay says she definitely wants to go there, while Arnold definitely wants to stay home. At work, Arnold tells a colleague that his wife threatens to take him to Maine. The colleague reports that his ex-wife also threatened him once. He then got drunk, came home late and insulted his wife. However, this was wrong because now he is home alone. In the evening, Kay gives Arnold his plane ticket . Again he questions the meaning of the trip. Kay asks when he last touched her. Arnold eats his supper alone, then sits down again in front of the television, where he falls asleep again while watching the Gulf Channel broadcast.
The next morning, Kay leaves the house and takes a taxi to the airport. Arnold, who actually got ready for work, looks after her. Kay is already sitting on the plane when Arnold shows up and takes a seat next to her. After they land, they drive to Maine, Arnold complains about the long journey and the costs. Kay assures that she booked a particularly cheap motel . In the motel room, Kay sleeps in bed and Arnold sleeps on the sofa bed next door.
The next morning Arnold is again dissatisfied with everything and complains about the prices in a breakfast café. Kay is excited about the first therapy session and can only eat a little, from which the waitress concludes that they are both likely to have an appointment with Dr. Have field. At the first therapy session, Dr. Feld that the goal will be to restore the lost intimacy.
When they are sitting in a restaurant after the session and Arnold is again upset about the cost of the therapy and the qualification of Dr. Feld doubts, Kay and Arnold are approached by a man and a woman who immediately realized they were going to Dr. Feld and tell them now that they would come back every year: to "readjust" .
In the second therapy interview, Dr. Feld to find out when they met, why they sleep in separate bedrooms, and when they last had sex. While Kay can answer the questions exactly, Arnold has no memory of it and again complains about the sense of the therapy. Dr. Feld gives them the exercise of lying in bed together and just hugging. After the session, they spend the afternoon separately. Arnold goes for a walk and ends up in a museum. Kay goes to a bar where a conversation arises with the bartender about the lack of sex in the marriage. The bartender then asks the guests who are present, which of them is not having sex in their marriage. Several people will then contact you. In the evening Kay and Arnold do their exercise. The next morning they wake up lying one behind the other together.
In the third therapy talk, both should talk about their sexual fantasies. While Kay doesn't have any and doesn't even masturbate , Arnold hesitantly admits that he fantasizes about oral sex and a threesome with the neighbor. Dr. Feld gives them the task of massaging each other. When Kay does this at Arnold's in the evening, he gets aroused, but then breaks off and goes to sleep alone. At night both lie awake, Kay pleases herself.
Arnold, who is visibly uncomfortable with the previous evening's discussion, breaks off the fourth therapy session and goes for a walk. They later meet again at the motel, where Kay has started packing in frustration. She says that in her marriage she repeatedly had postponed expectations and repeatedly allowed herself to be put off. Arnold, on the other hand, again questions the meaning of the therapy and says that one can only fail and lose.
The next morning they are still in therapy and Dr. Feld asks where this anger came from. Then both blame each other for the lack of pleasure. Arnold points out that he has always been faithful, never bothered with pornography and thus did everything right. Kay complains that Arnold always falls asleep in front of the TV and that she hates golf. Dr. Feld asks her to tell about her most beautiful sex experience and they remember mutual romantic encounters. As a next exercise they both go to a cinema . Kay tries to satisfy Arnold orally, but the attempt fails: Arnold is neither relaxed nor Kay is practiced enough. Kay leaves the cinema frustrated and crying. Arnold recalls questions that Dr. Feld asked, for example whether he actually gave everything for his marriage, what he risked for the relationship with Kay and whether that was the best that he could give.
Arnold goes to a hotel restaurant. Although it is fully booked, he urges the manager to get him a seat. In the meantime, Kay goes to a bookstore to get a copy from Dr. Field recommended book to get. Kay wants to learn about oral sex through it. In addition to the book, she also gets herself sausage and bananas, which she later secretly practices with. Then Arnold takes them out to the restaurant. You will spend a relaxed and romantic evening. When Kay doesn't want to drink anymore, Arnold says that he has reserved a room for both of them in the hotel. He then leads you into a cozy suite with a fireplace , strawberries and champagne . Again they try to be tender, but Arnold suddenly loses interest. Kay is in tears and blames himself for not being attracted to her.
At the last therapy interview, Dr. Feld suggested that setbacks are normal and not a sign of failure. He encourages them to persevere and not give up. He encourages them and says that they will later find that their marriage will be more fulfilling and satisfying than they ever dreamed of. He also recommends a therapist in their home town who can help them.
When Kay and Arnold are back home, they go back to the old routine. Kay prepares breakfast, Arnold reads the newspaper and goes to work. A colleague asks him how his week in Maine was. He replies that everything is terribly overpriced there. When they eat together in the evening, Arnold complains about a customer whom he has to remind every year to hand in his documents on time. For 17 years he has had the same conversation with him over and over again. Then he sits down in front of the television again to fall asleep while watching his golf show.
The next morning Kay offers her colleague to take care of her cat while she is away and even to live in her house for a few days. At dinner, Arnold asks again whether their relationship is really that bad. Kay says she doesn't want to go back to her old life. Then Arnold sits down in front of the TV again and Kay begins to pack her suitcase. He follows her upstairs, but doesn't dare to knock. Only at night, when both of them cannot sleep, does Arnold take heart, go to Kay, contrary to his habit, and sleep with her.
The next morning Arnold overslept and is so late that he wants to leave the house without breakfast. But he turns back and kisses Kay passionately on the kitchen table. Then he forgets his briefcase, which Kay brings after him. In front of the house they meet their neighbor, whom Kay invites for the evening. At Arnold's lewd look, Kay replied with a laugh that it was "not what he thought."
In the credits you can see that both of them in the presence of Dr. Feld finally renews her vows on the beach, as Kay told in one of her dreams during couples therapy. They promise each other to change the things that bother the other. Arnold promises to watch fewer golf shows and Kay promises to watch them.
criticism
“That David Frankel doesn't just leave it with tasteful hints, but relentlessly shows the embarrassment of this approach, that he doesn't make the characters appear more beautiful or" more mature "than they are, is astonishing for such a Hollywood production. One can only wish that for the new "adult movies": that commercial interest and truthfulness go well together. "
"The last third of the film is then just an excellent dramatic inspection of a love beyond sixty."
“ Just like the first time , it is set in a puritanical Disneyland, where people believe that sex is a machine that can be controlled by technology and intellect, just like a ghost train. "Is that supposed to be a joke?" One would like to ask with Arnold when the couple renewed their vows in the final picture. "
Grossing results
In the US, the film started in fourth place with a weekend box office of US $ 19.1 million. On the second US weekend, the film lost only about 38% and stood at about US $ 35 million at the end of August 2012.
Web links
- Like the first time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Like the first time atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Official US website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for As with the first time . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 241 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Like the first time . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Martina Knoben: On awakening passion. Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 26, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2012 .
- ↑ Daniel Haas: Back then hippies, today unhappy. FAZ, September 29, 2012, accessed on September 29, 2012 .
- ↑ Ingeborg Harms: Is that supposed to be a joke? Zeit, September 27, 2012, accessed March 15, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535438/business