Yalom's Guide to Happiness

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Movie
German title Yalom's Guide to Happiness
Original title Yalom's Cure
Yalom's Cure Movie Poster (2014) .jpg
Country of production Switzerland , USA , France
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 77 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Sabine Gisiger
script Sabine Gisiger
production Philip Delaquis
music Bachmann courtship
camera Helena Vagnières
cut Barbara Weber
occupation

Irvin D. Yalom , Marilyn Yalom, Susan K. Hoerger, Larry Hatlett, Eve Yalom

Irvin Yalom at the film premiere in Zurich

Yalom's Guide to Happiness (Original title: Yalom's Cure ) is a Swiss documentary by Sabine Gisiger from 2014 about the American psychiatrist and bestselling author Irvin D. Yalom . The film premiered out of competition on August 9, 2014 at the Locarno International Film Festival. The cinema release in Germany and Switzerland was on October 2, 2014.

content

The film is characterized by conversation sequences in which Yalom speaks about human nature as well as about misfortune and a happy lifestyle. In between, the viewer experiences him writing, speaking, cycling, diving, talking to his wife and with his family. In flashbacks , Yalom's origins and career are highlighted using old photos and family films. The method of group therapy , which Yalom developed together with others, is made tangible through simulated therapy sessions.

background

The documentary was produced by the Swiss production company Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH in collaboration with Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) and the Swiss Radio and Television Company (SRG SSR) . According to the director, the film project was financially jeopardized and could ultimately only be realized through further private investors.

Gisiger worked on the film project for three years. The shooting took place mainly on the US mainland, but also in Hawaii and Provence . The Zurich psychiatrist Daniel Teichman did research for the film and translations from Yiddish .

Yalom was satisfied with the film to the Tages-Anzeiger and was positively surprised that the fact that he was a diver could become “such a beautiful metaphor for my job”. However, he is not convinced of the film title. Yalom told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung that he had invented it “just as little as the even worse 'Cure' in the (original) title”. This is due to the «PR». Sabine Gisiger confirms this in a conversation with Thomas Haemmerli : "Instructions for happiness" was the wish of the German distributor, but does not meet the essence of psychoanalysis.

Reviews

The Tagesspiegel praised the fact that, contrary to its name, the documentary did not contain any instructions on how to be happy. "Instead of getting entangled in guidelines," he said, "Yalom talks about his life: how one becomes what one is". The Berner Zeitung attested that Yalom's instructions for happiness did not show "the transfigured image of a healer", but was the "honest portrait of a man who says:" Therapists themselves are in therapy for a lifetime "".

The magazine film-dienst saw the film as more than “a conventional biopic” and attributed this to the “strong personality of the protagonist himself”, the “complexity in which the private and psychological are combined” and the almost “meditative calm” of the film . "The timeless landscape and nature shots" would appear "like metaphors of mental equilibrium", music is "almost always present", but is "never intrusive". The Neue Zürcher Zeitung summed up that Sabine Gisiger managed to “capture a man's thinking in pictures” in her documentary.

The Frankfurter Rundschau wrote that in order to be able to enjoy the film, you need “a certain tolerance towards model students”. But Yalom speaks with "such mischievousness, with a disarming smile about his life's fear of failure, his ambition, his jealousy" that it impresses. There is no "better evidence for Yalom's thesis that life becomes better the more you get to know yourself than yourself".

Awards

Yalom's Guide to Happiness was nominated for the Swiss Film Prize 2015 in the categories of Best Documentary and Best Film Music.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fuori concorso. Yalom's Cure. In: Official homepage of the Locarno International Film Festival , accessed on February 15, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Yalom's Guide to Happiness. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media , accessed February 15, 2014 . In Switzerland the film was shown under the original title Yaloms' Cure, see ProCinema .
  3. ↑ Sabine Gisiger: “Yalom's Cure” came about thanks to private co-producers. In: Klein Report. Press Media AG, August 11, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2015 .
  4. ^ Rolf Breiner: "Irvin David Yalom - No healer, but tour guide". Literature & Art, October 2014, accessed on October 24, 2017 (No. 68).
  5. ↑ Barbara Munker: In the cinema: Tips for being happy. Mittelbayerische Zeitung , October 6, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2015 .
  6. ^ Valerie Wendenburg: A personal journey . In: Tachles - the Jewish weekly magazine . Jewish Media, Zurich October 3, 2014, p. 18 .
  7. ↑ Christoph Schneider: "An unexplored life is not worth living". Tages-Anzeiger , October 6, 2014, accessed February 15, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Urs Bühler: How to be happy. Professor Yalom and the final questions. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 30, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Haemmerli asks Sabine Gisiger about Yalom , October 17, 2014, accessed May 26, 2015
  10. ↑ Kerstin Decker : Film portrait "Yalom's instructions for happiness": Blue hour with a worldly wise man. Der Tagesspiegel , October 6, 2014, accessed on November 14, 2014 .
  11. ^ Leonie Krähenbühl: Yalom's Cure. Travel guide for self-exploration. Berner Zeitung , September 30, 2014, archived from the original on February 15, 2015 ; accessed on February 15, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Hamdorf : Yalom's Guide to Happiness. film-dienst , 20/2014, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Documentation. "Yalom's Cure". Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 1, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Harald Jähner: Look here, I felt good. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 1, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Yalom's Cure. Swiss Films , accessed February 15, 2015 .