Exclusive: Fresh off strong notices for Darren Aronofsky’s Venice Film Festival drama The Whale, Stranger Things star Sadie Sink has been tapped to star with Eric Bana (Munich) and Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049) in thriller Berlin Nobody, which got underway in the German capital today.
Rising German actor Jonas Dassler — who got his breakthrough as a 1970s murderer in Fatih Akin’s Berlin title The Golden Glove — and Sophie Rois (Tom Tykwer’s Drei and Der Architekt) have also joined the cast of Jordan Scott’s movie about American ex-pat and social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) who relocates to Berlin to further his research on the epidemic of cult mentality. While he immerses himself in German cultism, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), becomes entwined with a mysterious and enigmatic local boy (Dassler). The film is inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel Tokyo.
Produced by Scott Free’s...
Rising German actor Jonas Dassler — who got his breakthrough as a 1970s murderer in Fatih Akin’s Berlin title The Golden Glove — and Sophie Rois (Tom Tykwer’s Drei and Der Architekt) have also joined the cast of Jordan Scott’s movie about American ex-pat and social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) who relocates to Berlin to further his research on the epidemic of cult mentality. While he immerses himself in German cultism, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), becomes entwined with a mysterious and enigmatic local boy (Dassler). The film is inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel Tokyo.
Produced by Scott Free’s...
- 9/6/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Consonants of Love: Krebitz Gets Caught in an Odd Romance
“It all begins with A,” so begins the omniscient third-person narration of Anna, an actress in her sixties played by the captivating Sophie Rois. It suggests an obvious pattern of themes to come in the ungainly titled Aeiou – A Quick Alphabet of Love (Aeiou — Das schnelle alphabet der liebe), the fourth feature from director Nicolette Krebitz, who seems to revel in characters forced to reinvent themselves through unexpected romantic connections. To her credit, Krebitz ends up delivering something completely unpredictable, though it’s a film clogged with choices which range from magical to agonizingly unpleasant.…...
“It all begins with A,” so begins the omniscient third-person narration of Anna, an actress in her sixties played by the captivating Sophie Rois. It suggests an obvious pattern of themes to come in the ungainly titled Aeiou – A Quick Alphabet of Love (Aeiou — Das schnelle alphabet der liebe), the fourth feature from director Nicolette Krebitz, who seems to revel in characters forced to reinvent themselves through unexpected romantic connections. To her credit, Krebitz ends up delivering something completely unpredictable, though it’s a film clogged with choices which range from magical to agonizingly unpleasant.…...
- 2/14/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The title is a bit misleading in German writer-director Nicolette Krebitz’s offbeat romantic comedy “Aeiou — A Quick Alphabet of Love.” Despite its promise of deeper meaning attached to all the vowels in the alphabet, it’s ‘A’ on which it fixates: Said aloud and elongated, we are told, the first letter vocalizes a spectrum of feeling ranging from primal need to sharp pain to orgasmic release. Sure enough, all are present in this unpredictable tale of mutual misfit attraction between a juvenile delinquent and the middle-aged actor whose role in his life shifts from mentor to mother to lover. It’s difficult, prickly material that “Aeiou” handles with a light touch, even as the narrative lurches recklessly across genres into flighty caper territory.
Marked by a gentle deadpan drollness that occasionally blossoms into fanciful romanticism, this an altogether less intense proposition than Krebitz’s last feature, the Sundance-selector 2016 psychodrama “Wild,...
Marked by a gentle deadpan drollness that occasionally blossoms into fanciful romanticism, this an altogether less intense proposition than Krebitz’s last feature, the Sundance-selector 2016 psychodrama “Wild,...
- 2/13/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
It’s not your regular meet-cute. Anna Moth (Sophie Rois) an actress recognized by people in the street but apparently unable to get work — “everyone knows she’s mental,” says a fellow actor after she extracts herself from his grip during the recording of a clearly low-rent radio play — gets mugged in the street outside a smart bar by a young man. He takes her handbag while a spunky young woman who sees the whole incident chases after him and gets the bag back, minus the wallet. Anna, meanwhile, is recovering her composure inside the bar, diva-style.
“No more than a kid, really,” she says when describing the incident to Michel (Udo Kier), her landlord, benefactor, confidante and possibly number-one fan. What was he wearing? “A leather jacket. I could smell it.” Michel throws his head back, closes his eyes and sniffs theatrically. “The perfect combination,” he sighs. And there...
“No more than a kid, really,” she says when describing the incident to Michel (Udo Kier), her landlord, benefactor, confidante and possibly number-one fan. What was he wearing? “A leather jacket. I could smell it.” Michel throws his head back, closes his eyes and sniffs theatrically. “The perfect combination,” he sighs. And there...
- 2/13/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
The complete lineup for the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival, taking place February 10-20, 2022, has been unveiled and it’s a major collection of some of our most-anticipated films of the year. As teased yesterday, Claire Denis’ Fire (which now has the title Avec amour et acharnement (aka Both Sides of the Blade)) will premiere in competition, alongside Hong Sangsoo’s The Novelist’s Film, Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 follow-up Alcarràs, Ulrich Seidl’s Rimini, Rithy Panh’s Everything Will Be Ok, and more.
Elsewhere in the festival is Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses, Andrew Dominik’s Nick Cave & Warren Ellis doc This Much I Know To Be True, Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet, Gastón Solnicki’s A Little Love Package, Quentin Dupieux’s Incredible But True, plus new shorts by Lucrecia Martel, Hlynur Pálmason, and more. Also recently announced was the Panorama section, which will open...
Elsewhere in the festival is Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, Dario Argento’s Dark Glasses, Andrew Dominik’s Nick Cave & Warren Ellis doc This Much I Know To Be True, Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet, Gastón Solnicki’s A Little Love Package, Quentin Dupieux’s Incredible But True, plus new shorts by Lucrecia Martel, Hlynur Pálmason, and more. Also recently announced was the Panorama section, which will open...
- 1/19/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
International sales company The Match Factory has revealed its Berlin Film Festival lineup, including two titles in Competition: “A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love” by Nicolette Krebitz and “Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush” by Andreas Dresen.
The Match Factory, which was acquired by Mubi last week, has three films in the shortlist for the International Feature Film Oscar: “Great Freedom,” “Drive My Car” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”
After the irreverent “Wild,” which premiered at Sundance in 2016, Krebitz is back with a new take on love in “A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love.”
The film follows an actress who is mugged in front of a trendy bar in West Berlin. Barging into her, a young man takes her handbag and runs off into the night. A short while later, they meet again. She is Anna (Sophie Rois) and he is Adrian...
The Match Factory, which was acquired by Mubi last week, has three films in the shortlist for the International Feature Film Oscar: “Great Freedom,” “Drive My Car” and “Prayers for the Stolen.”
After the irreverent “Wild,” which premiered at Sundance in 2016, Krebitz is back with a new take on love in “A E I O U – A Quick Alphabet of Love.”
The film follows an actress who is mugged in front of a trendy bar in West Berlin. Barging into her, a young man takes her handbag and runs off into the night. A short while later, they meet again. She is Anna (Sophie Rois) and he is Adrian...
- 1/19/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The 72nd Berlin International Film Festival (February 10-20) revealed its Competition line-up on Wednesday, scroll down for the full list.
As previously announced, the International Competition opens this year with François Ozon’s Peter Von Kant. Joining the Ozon pic today were 17 further features, including new films from Hong Sang-soo, Claire Denis, Ulrich Seidl, and Rithy Panh.
This marks Denis’ first time in Berlin’s Competition, having been a regular at Cannes over the years, while her last film High Life debuted at Toronto. The director’s new movie Both Sides of the Blade (previously known as Fire) stars Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon.
South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo picked up the Silver Bear for Best Director in 2020 for movie The Woman Who Ran. His latest pic is The Novelist’s Film, which Berlin Artistic Director today said celebrates chance encounters.
The Competition program is 17 world premieres plus one international premiere,...
As previously announced, the International Competition opens this year with François Ozon’s Peter Von Kant. Joining the Ozon pic today were 17 further features, including new films from Hong Sang-soo, Claire Denis, Ulrich Seidl, and Rithy Panh.
This marks Denis’ first time in Berlin’s Competition, having been a regular at Cannes over the years, while her last film High Life debuted at Toronto. The director’s new movie Both Sides of the Blade (previously known as Fire) stars Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon.
South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo picked up the Silver Bear for Best Director in 2020 for movie The Woman Who Ran. His latest pic is The Novelist’s Film, which Berlin Artistic Director today said celebrates chance encounters.
The Competition program is 17 world premieres plus one international premiere,...
- 1/19/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Films by auteurs Claire Denis, Hong Sangsoo and Rithy Panh are part of the lineup in competition at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival.
Berlin’s 2022 selection spans 18 movies, seven directed by women, which will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears. The films originate from 15 countries, with 17 serving as world premieres. Two of the films are first features, both from women.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian discussed the thematic throughline of “human and emotional bonds” across the selection, with the family unit serving as a key focal point in a number of movies. More than half are set in the present time, and two are within the pandemic era.
The festival hosts 12 returning filmmakers, eight of whom are in competition and five of whom already hold a Bear from Berlin.
The festival will go ahead as an in-person event, albeit with seating capacity in movie theaters reduced to 50% and without any parties or receptions.
Berlin’s 2022 selection spans 18 movies, seven directed by women, which will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears. The films originate from 15 countries, with 17 serving as world premieres. Two of the films are first features, both from women.
Artistic director Carlo Chatrian discussed the thematic throughline of “human and emotional bonds” across the selection, with the family unit serving as a key focal point in a number of movies. More than half are set in the present time, and two are within the pandemic era.
The festival hosts 12 returning filmmakers, eight of whom are in competition and five of whom already hold a Bear from Berlin.
The festival will go ahead as an in-person event, albeit with seating capacity in movie theaters reduced to 50% and without any parties or receptions.
- 1/19/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Forum adds 10 more titles; Classics includes Godard, Pasolini, Russell.
New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.
Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.
German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...
New films from Jonathan Perel and Max Linz are among 17 new titles added to the Forum section at the 2022 Berlinale; while the Classics section has programmed seven digitally restored titles ahead of next month’s festival.
Argentinian filmmaker Jonathan Perel will participate with the world premiere of documentary Camouflage, about a writer who embodies a man with an obsession with Argentina’s biggest military unit.
Perel’s previous films include Berlinale 2020 title Corporate Responsibility.
German director Linz is in the festival with the world premiere of his new film L’Etat Et Moi,...
- 1/17/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Spanish Horror
Two of Spain’s highest-profile upcoming horror titles got release dates and trailers today, David Casademunt’s “El páramo” (formerly “La bestia”) at Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s horror anthology “Historias para no dormir.”
“El páramo” is the highly anticipated feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Casademunt, and boasts a small yet star-filled cast including Inma Cuesta (“The Bride”), Roberto Álamo (“The Skin I Live In”) and Asier Flores (“Pain and Glory”). The film is set in an isolated cabin where a family of three are visited by a terrible monster which threatens the ties that bind them. It will world premiere on Oct. 11 at the Sitges Film Festival and hit Netflix worldwide on Jan. 26, 2022. Rodar y Rodar produces.
Amazon Prime Video and Spanish broadcaster Rtve’s reboot of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador’s legendary Spanish horror anthology series “Historias para no dormir” will hit the streaming platform on Nov.
Two of Spain’s highest-profile upcoming horror titles got release dates and trailers today, David Casademunt’s “El páramo” (formerly “La bestia”) at Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s horror anthology “Historias para no dormir.”
“El páramo” is the highly anticipated feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Casademunt, and boasts a small yet star-filled cast including Inma Cuesta (“The Bride”), Roberto Álamo (“The Skin I Live In”) and Asier Flores (“Pain and Glory”). The film is set in an isolated cabin where a family of three are visited by a terrible monster which threatens the ties that bind them. It will world premiere on Oct. 11 at the Sitges Film Festival and hit Netflix worldwide on Jan. 26, 2022. Rodar y Rodar produces.
Amazon Prime Video and Spanish broadcaster Rtve’s reboot of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador’s legendary Spanish horror anthology series “Historias para no dormir” will hit the streaming platform on Nov.
- 10/7/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Projects to receive funding include Joachim Hedén’s Breaking Surface and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch.
New projects by Komplizen Film, augenschein Filmproduktion, X Filme and Gaumont are among 16 films and TV series awarded a total of more than €9.6m ($11.5m) in production funding by North Rhine-Westphalia’s regional film fund Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw in its first funding session of 2021.
The largest single award to a feature, €1m ($1.19m), went to augenschein Filmproduktion’s English-language survival drama The Dive, based on Swedish writer-director Joachim Hedén’s Breaking Surface, which will be directed by Maximilian Erlenwein in Sardinia and Germany later this year.
New projects by Komplizen Film, augenschein Filmproduktion, X Filme and Gaumont are among 16 films and TV series awarded a total of more than €9.6m ($11.5m) in production funding by North Rhine-Westphalia’s regional film fund Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw in its first funding session of 2021.
The largest single award to a feature, €1m ($1.19m), went to augenschein Filmproduktion’s English-language survival drama The Dive, based on Swedish writer-director Joachim Hedén’s Breaking Surface, which will be directed by Maximilian Erlenwein in Sardinia and Germany later this year.
- 2/4/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
Six series will play in the festival with 10 titles in the Market.
A new anthology series titled This Is Music from directors including Wim Wenders and David Byrne is one of 10 international projects selected for the Co-Pro Series section of the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2021 (March 2-5).
The Berlinale Series has also selected six series to play in the online festival, which runs from March 1-5.
Scroll down for full list of Co-Pro Series, Berlinale Series and Series Market Selects titles
Produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures, anthology series This Is Music is created by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, who wrote Wenders...
A new anthology series titled This Is Music from directors including Wim Wenders and David Byrne is one of 10 international projects selected for the Co-Pro Series section of the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2021 (March 2-5).
The Berlinale Series has also selected six series to play in the online festival, which runs from March 1-5.
Scroll down for full list of Co-Pro Series, Berlinale Series and Series Market Selects titles
Produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures, anthology series This Is Music is created by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, who wrote Wenders...
- 1/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the six titles that will take part in the latest edition of Berlinale Series. The shows will screen online during the first week of March when the European Film Market runs, and the team are currently discussing plans for presenting some of the shows during the festival’s planned summer event.
The line-up includes Philly D.A., the strand’s first docuseries, which follows the most controversial District Attorney in the U.S. and will arrive from its premiere at Sundance. Deadline recently revealed that Dogwoof has boarded the project, which comes from Oscar-nominated duo Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald.
Latin American TV will be represented for the first time with two titles: Amongst Men (Entre Hombres), an Argentinian HBO production, and The Last Days of Gilda (Os últimos dias de Gilda) from Canal Brazil.
Russell T Davies’ drama set during the AIDS crisis,...
The line-up includes Philly D.A., the strand’s first docuseries, which follows the most controversial District Attorney in the U.S. and will arrive from its premiere at Sundance. Deadline recently revealed that Dogwoof has boarded the project, which comes from Oscar-nominated duo Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald.
Latin American TV will be represented for the first time with two titles: Amongst Men (Entre Hombres), an Argentinian HBO production, and The Last Days of Gilda (Os últimos dias de Gilda) from Canal Brazil.
Russell T Davies’ drama set during the AIDS crisis,...
- 1/26/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s Berlinale Series has announced the section’s lineup of six titles.
The TV arm of the festival, which is being held online this year due to the pandemic, said the shows reflect “unconventional and surprising topics, narratives and visual style [that] comprise a mirror of our time.”
Latin American content is represented for the first time with the Argentinian HBO production “Entre hombres” (Amongst Men) and “Os últimos dias de Gilda” (The Last Days of Gilda) from Brazil. “Philly D.A.,” a U.S. production by Oscar-nominated duo Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, is the first documentary series to be invited into the program.
Separately, the Berlinale Series Market and Conference, the industry platform which is part of the European Film Market, has announced a newly created special label called “Berlinale Series Market Selects” that highlights series with high commercial potential within the “Berlinale Series Market” screenings.
Berlinale...
The TV arm of the festival, which is being held online this year due to the pandemic, said the shows reflect “unconventional and surprising topics, narratives and visual style [that] comprise a mirror of our time.”
Latin American content is represented for the first time with the Argentinian HBO production “Entre hombres” (Amongst Men) and “Os últimos dias de Gilda” (The Last Days of Gilda) from Brazil. “Philly D.A.,” a U.S. production by Oscar-nominated duo Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, is the first documentary series to be invited into the program.
Separately, the Berlinale Series Market and Conference, the industry platform which is part of the European Film Market, has announced a newly created special label called “Berlinale Series Market Selects” that highlights series with high commercial potential within the “Berlinale Series Market” screenings.
Berlinale...
- 1/26/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Sophie Rois may not be a household name in the United States, but she has established quite a successful career in Europe. Born and raised in Austria, Sophie has become best-known for her German language roles. Many fans will recognize her best from her role in the 2019 TV miniseries M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (A City Is Looking for A Murderer). Sophie is the type of actress who always be relied on to put on an unforgettable performance. Now in her 50s, Sophie is still going strong and doens’t plan on stopping any time soon. Viewers who
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Sophie Rois...
10 Things You Didn’t Know about Sophie Rois...
- 10/31/2020
- by Camille Moore
- TVovermind.com
Selection includes TV series from UK, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Israel and Denmark.
The Berlin International Film Festival (February 7 – 17) has unveiled the seven TV titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.
Among the line-up is Amazon’s Hanna written by David Farr, who co-wrote the 2011 film of the same name. It is directed by Sarah Adina Smith, whose film credits include Buster Mal’s Heart, which starred Rami Malek. Hanna stars Esmé Creed-Miles, Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos. NBCUniversal International Studios is producing alongside Working Title Television.
Also in the selection is Netflix’s first Swedish original series Quicksand,...
The Berlin International Film Festival (February 7 – 17) has unveiled the seven TV titles set to be screened in this year’s Berlinale Series programme.
Among the line-up is Amazon’s Hanna written by David Farr, who co-wrote the 2011 film of the same name. It is directed by Sarah Adina Smith, whose film credits include Buster Mal’s Heart, which starred Rami Malek. Hanna stars Esmé Creed-Miles, Joel Kinnaman and Mireille Enos. NBCUniversal International Studios is producing alongside Working Title Television.
Also in the selection is Netflix’s first Swedish original series Quicksand,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Author: Emily Breen
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in the company of a preschooler has cursed Peppa Pig. Flipping the pig the bird is pretty much a parental right of passage. Along with indelibly imprinting every word of The Gruffalo on your long term memory and continuing to prefix farm animal names with the sound they make, irrespective of whether children are in earshot. Happily, for the former at least, revenge is within your grasp…
Illustrator Ted Sieger’s Molly Monster comes to the big screen this weekend with a monstrously sweet and refreshingly simple story to tell. Molly’s primary coloured, clockwork world is about to be rocked by the arrival of a brand new sibling. The sensible sister-to-be sets to work knitting a cosy hat to help her process the big news and welcome the new baby. Her wind-up pal Edison is not to be so easily won over.
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes in the company of a preschooler has cursed Peppa Pig. Flipping the pig the bird is pretty much a parental right of passage. Along with indelibly imprinting every word of The Gruffalo on your long term memory and continuing to prefix farm animal names with the sound they make, irrespective of whether children are in earshot. Happily, for the former at least, revenge is within your grasp…
Illustrator Ted Sieger’s Molly Monster comes to the big screen this weekend with a monstrously sweet and refreshingly simple story to tell. Molly’s primary coloured, clockwork world is about to be rocked by the arrival of a brand new sibling. The sensible sister-to-be sets to work knitting a cosy hat to help her process the big news and welcome the new baby. Her wind-up pal Edison is not to be so easily won over.
- 4/21/2017
- by Emily Breen
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Features from Sandra Nettelbeck, Thomas Stuber, Caroline Link and Burhan Qurbani on slate for German outfit.
New features by Sandra Nettelbeck, Thomas Stuber, Burhan Qurbani and Oscar-winner Caroline Link are being lined up by the Ludwigsburg/Berlin-based production company Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, which was launched by producers Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach at the end of last year with Beta Film’s Jan Mojto as partner.
The first project to go into production this year will be the melancholic romantic comedy What Does Not Kill Us (Was Uns Nicht Umbringt) by writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck in August with a cast including August Zirner, Sophie Rois, Christian Berkel, Bjarne Mädel and Jenny Schily.
The German-language film will mark Nettelbeck’s return to filmmaking in Germany after working abroad for more than ten years on films including Helen and Mr. Morgan’s Last Love. It will also link to the director’s internationally successful romantic comedy Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) with...
New features by Sandra Nettelbeck, Thomas Stuber, Burhan Qurbani and Oscar-winner Caroline Link are being lined up by the Ludwigsburg/Berlin-based production company Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, which was launched by producers Jochen Laube and Fabian Maubach at the end of last year with Beta Film’s Jan Mojto as partner.
The first project to go into production this year will be the melancholic romantic comedy What Does Not Kill Us (Was Uns Nicht Umbringt) by writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck in August with a cast including August Zirner, Sophie Rois, Christian Berkel, Bjarne Mädel and Jenny Schily.
The German-language film will mark Nettelbeck’s return to filmmaking in Germany after working abroad for more than ten years on films including Helen and Mr. Morgan’s Last Love. It will also link to the director’s internationally successful romantic comedy Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) with...
- 2/23/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
The Decent One director Vanessa Lapa with producer Felix Breisach: "We were very focused on the age, the accent, the ability of entering a character and remain truthful to the text." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Vanessa Lapa's The Decent One (Der Anständige) is evocative and complex with the horror of disconnect, impossible to dismiss as it plays out. In New York, with producer Felix Breisach, we discussed the casting of letter and diary readers Tobias Moretti as Heinrich Himmler, Sophie Rois, Antonia Moretti, Lenz Moretti, Florentín Groll and Lotte Ledl as the Himmler family. We spoke about Marlene Dietrich singing as a marker of time, if Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil works here and how the writings were obtained, transcribed and put on film.
Based on previously unseen family diaries, photographs and private letters found in Himmler's home in Gmund in 1945 by the Us Army, Lapa's documentary sheds harsh light on the Reichsführer-ss,...
Vanessa Lapa's The Decent One (Der Anständige) is evocative and complex with the horror of disconnect, impossible to dismiss as it plays out. In New York, with producer Felix Breisach, we discussed the casting of letter and diary readers Tobias Moretti as Heinrich Himmler, Sophie Rois, Antonia Moretti, Lenz Moretti, Florentín Groll and Lotte Ledl as the Himmler family. We spoke about Marlene Dietrich singing as a marker of time, if Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil works here and how the writings were obtained, transcribed and put on film.
Based on previously unseen family diaries, photographs and private letters found in Himmler's home in Gmund in 1945 by the Us Army, Lapa's documentary sheds harsh light on the Reichsführer-ss,...
- 10/24/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
That "Heini" was Margarete Himmler's pet name for Nazi husband Heinrich is the most memorable factoid in The Decent One, a biographical documentary that examines the Himmlers' marriage. By focusing on Margarete and Heinrich's relationship, director Vanessa Lapa purports to highlight the disconnect between the powerful SS leader's placid domestic life and genocidal public career. But the approach proves myopic; by emphasizing home movies and letters, Lapa fails to elucidate her hateful subject's actions. Actors Tobias Moretti and Sophie Rois read, off-camera, from decades' worth of Heinrich and Margarete's letters. Lapa only contextualizes this through intertitles offering a general historical timeline of events. Just before Margarete praises her son Puppi for following "...
- 10/1/2014
- Village Voice
Asia was the big winner at the 64th Berlin Film Festival, taking home four Bears, including the Golden Bear for Best Film and Silver Bear for Best Actor (Liao Fan) for Diao Yinan’s Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo).Click here for full list of winners
Another of the three Chinese titles, Blind Massage, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement, which again went to a cinematographer, Zeng Jian. Last year had seen DoP Aziz Zhambakiyev receive the prize for his camerawork on Harmony Lessons.
At the ceremony on Saturday night, the Silver Bear for Best Actress was presented to Haru Kuroki for her performance in The Little House by veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.
There were a further six prizes or special mentions for films from Asia in the decisions of the Generation and independent juries (Fipresci and Netpac).
Black Coal, Thin Ice is the fourth Chinese film to win the Golden...
Another of the three Chinese titles, Blind Massage, picked up the Silver Bear for Outstanding Achievement, which again went to a cinematographer, Zeng Jian. Last year had seen DoP Aziz Zhambakiyev receive the prize for his camerawork on Harmony Lessons.
At the ceremony on Saturday night, the Silver Bear for Best Actress was presented to Haru Kuroki for her performance in The Little House by veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada.
There were a further six prizes or special mentions for films from Asia in the decisions of the Generation and independent juries (Fipresci and Netpac).
Black Coal, Thin Ice is the fourth Chinese film to win the Golden...
- 2/16/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Kim Basinger is set to play the lead role in Danish director Anders Morgenthaler's new English-language drama "Petit" at Zentropa Entertainments.
Basinger stars as Maria, a successful career woman who has just received the news that she is infertile.
She begins a desperate pursuit to adopt a child, her efforts leading her into the criminal underworld of infant prostitution in Eastern Europe.
Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sophie Rois and Sebastian Schipper co-star.
Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm are producing, and shooting has just begun on the project in Hamburg, Germany ahead of a 2014 release.
Source: THR...
Basinger stars as Maria, a successful career woman who has just received the news that she is infertile.
She begins a desperate pursuit to adopt a child, her efforts leading her into the criminal underworld of infant prostitution in Eastern Europe.
Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sophie Rois and Sebastian Schipper co-star.
Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm are producing, and shooting has just begun on the project in Hamburg, Germany ahead of a 2014 release.
Source: THR...
- 6/18/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kim Basinger (pictured) stars.
Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
For production details visit
Petit
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release...
Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
For production details visit
Petit
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release...
- 6/18/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Kim Basinger (pictured) stars.
Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release.
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Anders Morgenthaler has started shooting his new feature Petit in Hamburg.
Kim Basinger stars as a successful career woman who is desperate for a baby and is drawn into an underworld of abuse and brutality.
Morgenthaler, who previously directed films including Princess and Echo, makes his English-language debut.
The cast also features Jordan Prentice, Peter Stormare, Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois.
Producers Marie Gade Denessen and Julie Lind-Holm for Zentropa Entertainments32 ApS in co-production with Maria Köpf for Zentropa Entertainments Berlin GmbH, Jamila Wenske and Sol Bondy for One Two Films and executive produced by Peter Aalbæk Jensen for Zentropa and Peter Nadermann for Network Movie in cooperation with Zdf/Arte, Film i Väst, Morgenthaler Office, Copenhagen Bombay, Viking Brothers Entertainment and TV2/Denmark and with support from The Danish Film Institute, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Dfff.
TrustNordisk handles international sales and the film will be readied for a 2014 release.
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- 6/18/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Things become complicated when two halves of a couple separately develop illicit interests in the same man.
Hanna (Sophie Rois) is in science marketing. She's also irritable and argumentative, which she puts down to the menopause, though she's also stressed because her relationship seems to have gone stale and her partner isn't giving her the sex she wants. So she picks a fight with visiting cell biologist Adam (Devid Striesow). One things leads to another. Before she knows it, she's having an affair.
Simon (Sebastian Schipper) is also frustrated. He has found it hard to tell...
Hanna (Sophie Rois) is in science marketing. She's also irritable and argumentative, which she puts down to the menopause, though she's also stressed because her relationship seems to have gone stale and her partner isn't giving her the sex she wants. So she picks a fight with visiting cell biologist Adam (Devid Striesow). One things leads to another. Before she knows it, she's having an affair.
Simon (Sebastian Schipper) is also frustrated. He has found it hard to tell...
- 2/12/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
DVD Release Date: Feb. 7, 2011
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois do a little celebrating in 3.
The 2010 foreign-language romantic comedy 3 is the latest film from Germany’s Tom Twyker, director of the sensational Run Lola Run and, more recently, The International.
The movie follows Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper), a couple in their early 40s who live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam (Devid Striesow), a younger man whom they both fall in love with!
3 is tagged as “an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes” that nods to Hollywood’s screwball comedies of the 1930s.
The movie rolled out to theaters and film festivals across the world, including a limited theatrical run in the U.
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing
Sebastian Schipper and Sophie Rois do a little celebrating in 3.
The 2010 foreign-language romantic comedy 3 is the latest film from Germany’s Tom Twyker, director of the sensational Run Lola Run and, more recently, The International.
The movie follows Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper), a couple in their early 40s who live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam (Devid Striesow), a younger man whom they both fall in love with!
3 is tagged as “an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes” that nods to Hollywood’s screwball comedies of the 1930s.
The movie rolled out to theaters and film festivals across the world, including a limited theatrical run in the U.
- 12/30/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Director: Tom Tykwer Writer: Tom Tykwer Starring: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Devid Striesow, Annedore Kleist, Angela Winkler, Alexander Hörbe, Winnie Böwe, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Alexander Scheer, Karl Alexander Seidel During the opening split-screen montage, boxes multiply on the screen providing us with a menagerie of overlapping images and dialogue. Being that writer-director Tom Tykwer's 3 is in German (with English subtitles), it is difficult to make out everything that is being said. Even for native German-speakers, the barrage of sound and vision is probably a lot to consume at once; but the method of Tykwer's madness makes sense once we hear Hanna (Sophie Rois) -- in one of the split screen images -- complain to Simon (Sebastian Schipper) about her inability to follow the narrative of the film they are watching. Hanna's comment truly is a self-reflexive slap in the face. 3 has a lot to say about the over-saturation of content...
- 9/22/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, that showcase of contemporary British acting, has opened in the UK this weekend, and that roundup has been updated through today. The entry on Gus Van Sant's Restless has been updated with pointers to pieces related to the Museum of the Moving Image's retrospective, running through September 30. And of course, we've got roundups running on Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive and Rod Lurie's remake of Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. Meantime, two weeks after the release of Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, we've entered the think piece stage, so that roundup's been kept up-to-date through today as well.
"Imagine that a semi-pagan society quietly survives in the heartland of Russia, amid the leftover Soviet-era factories, the old shops and stores strung along the roadsides, the new concrete towns with their shopping malls." Stuart Klawans in the Nation: "Imagine that the people of...
"Imagine that a semi-pagan society quietly survives in the heartland of Russia, amid the leftover Soviet-era factories, the old shops and stores strung along the roadsides, the new concrete towns with their shopping malls." Stuart Klawans in the Nation: "Imagine that the people of...
- 9/17/2011
- MUBI
[With Tom Tykwer's first German-language film in a decade releasing limited today in the U.S. we now revisit Dustin Chang's review from this spring.]I can't find any news article that says Tom Tykwer, the German director known for his celestial, kinetic action films, had a breakdown or went through traumatic events in his life. But I'm assuming he had to have been, because his new film, Three is extremely chatty, dense and very grown-up, unlike anything he has done prior.His first German film since Princess and the Warrior, Three concerns a middle aged, modern Berlin Couple, Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper) falling in love with the same man, Adam (Devid Striesow). Riddled with post-modern themes, the film is in part, reminiscent of Don...
- 9/16/2011
- Screen Anarchy
I sometimes get in trouble when I review a gay arthouse film and I say I found it talky or pretentious. Often I'm accused of missing the point.
Which may very well be true. When I like an arthouse film and someone else calls it talky or pretentious, I usually accuse them of missing the point!
That said, I didn't like the new German "love triangle" film Three, which opens in limited release today. I thought it was ... talky and pretentious.
It's the work of writer-director Tom Tykwer, who is responsible for the very influential 1998 film Run Lola Run (which I have somehow never seen).
It's the story of Hannah (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper), who have a phenomenally bad marriage of 20 years. Then again, they're dealing with some pretty serious issues: miscarriage, the death of a parent, testicular cancer. Maybe that's why they're so non-communicative, self-centered, and all-around unlikable.
Which may very well be true. When I like an arthouse film and someone else calls it talky or pretentious, I usually accuse them of missing the point!
That said, I didn't like the new German "love triangle" film Three, which opens in limited release today. I thought it was ... talky and pretentious.
It's the work of writer-director Tom Tykwer, who is responsible for the very influential 1998 film Run Lola Run (which I have somehow never seen).
It's the story of Hannah (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper), who have a phenomenally bad marriage of 20 years. Then again, they're dealing with some pretty serious issues: miscarriage, the death of a parent, testicular cancer. Maybe that's why they're so non-communicative, self-centered, and all-around unlikable.
- 9/16/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
While Tom Tykwer is busy at work with the Wachowskis co-directing the sure-to-be epic adaptation of Cloud Atlas, we are finally get a theatrical release of his most recent film stateside. We have the first Us theatrical trailer from Strand Releasing and it definitely sells me on the film. Although there are no subtitles given in this, Tykwer has headed back to Germany for 3 (or Drei) after experimenting in Hollywood with The International. For such a dire situation the plot presents, he looks to be injecting a lot of comedy which I can’t wait for. Starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper and Devid Striesow, one can see the trailer below.
Synopsis:
Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam,...
Synopsis:
Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam,...
- 9/2/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
"Ground control to Major Tom!" From the director of Run, Lola, Run and The International comes a sexy romantic drama with a nod to classic Hollywood screwball comedies. Strand Releasing has debuted the first official trailer for Tom Tykwer's 3 (the title is just the number Three), a Berlin, Germany-set drama centered on a 40-something couple who, separately, fall in love with the same man. It stars mostly European actors: Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper and Devid Striesow. The shots in this trailer are gorgeous, that's for sure, and there's a lot of naked people in it, but it gets a bit odd/wacky at the end with all that Space Oddity. Watch the first official trailer for Tom Tykwer's 3, embedded from YouTube: Hanna (Rois) and Simon (Schipper), a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they become restless despite being truly and deeply in love.
- 9/2/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
I can't find any news article that says Tom Tykwer, the German director known for his celestial, kinetic action films, had a breakdown or went through traumatic events in his life. But I'm assuming he had to have been, because his new film, Three is extremely chatty, dense and very grown-up, unlike anything he has done prior.His first German film since Princess and the Warrior, Three concerns a middle aged, modern Berlin Couple, Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper) falling in love with the same man, Adam (Devid Striesow). Riddled with post-modern themes, the film is in part, reminiscent of Don DeLillo's book, White Noise - it starts with Hanna and Simon obsessing over death. Their media soaked, technology savvy, slightly ironical professions reflect...
- 4/27/2011
- Screen Anarchy
"Ralf Huettner's sleeper hit Vincent Wants to Sea was the surprise best picture winner at the 61st German Film Awards, Germany's version of the Oscars." Scott Roxborough from Berlin for the Hollywood Reporter: "Florian David Fitz, who's better known as a TV performer here, won best actor for his starring performance in Vincent as a Tourette's sufferer who, once in his life, wants to see the ocean."
The Lolas, as these awards are called, have three categories for Best Film: Gold, which has gone to Vincent; Silver, which goes this year to Yasemin Samdereli's immigration comedy Almanya, also picking up the screenplay award (which Samdereli shares with her sister, Nesrin); and Bronze, presented to If Not Us, Who?, Andres Veiel's retelling of the love story between Gudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper and their breakup when Ensslin enters into her fateful relationship with Andreas Baader.
Tom Tykwer wins Best Director for Three,...
The Lolas, as these awards are called, have three categories for Best Film: Gold, which has gone to Vincent; Silver, which goes this year to Yasemin Samdereli's immigration comedy Almanya, also picking up the screenplay award (which Samdereli shares with her sister, Nesrin); and Bronze, presented to If Not Us, Who?, Andres Veiel's retelling of the love story between Gudrun Ensslin and Bernward Vesper and their breakup when Ensslin enters into her fateful relationship with Andreas Baader.
Tom Tykwer wins Best Director for Three,...
- 4/9/2011
- MUBI
[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Thomas Taborsky's take on the Best of Germany in 2010.] An entire year's worth of production, however the piece of German cinema that left the biggest mark on 2010 was, strictly speaking, a TV mini series: In Face of the Crime, a ten-part epic about the Russian mob in Berlin, was at the center of attention, and director Dominik Graf received praise wherever he went. Word was of a reinvention - one German cinema is in need of, considering these twelve months were mostly about known topics, known ways of dealing with them and known players - even if the best continued to perform strongly, which also holds true with thesps like Sibel Kekilli (in the country's Academy Award contender When We Leave) and Moritz Bleibtreu (as Joseph Goebbels in Jew Suss: Rise and Fall). But now, let's talk about this year's mixed bag of standout movies: #5. Wallace Line Franz Müller makes the most of the constellation of two single parents falling in love,...
- 12/22/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
From director of Run Lola Run, Heaven, The International, and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer comes his next feature, Drei (or translated as Three). This is Tom Tykwer‘s return to a German-language film, and unfortunately I missed its debut at Toronto International Film Festival, but I’m highly anticipating checking it out. We posted a few stills for the film awhile back, but not much buzz has come out. The cast is made up mostly of reputable German actors, including Sophie Rois, Devid Striesow, and Sebastian Schipper. Check out the trailer below thanks to Quiet Earth (via /Film). Unfortunately it isn’t subtitled, but you can check out the visuals if you don’t know the language.
Synopsis: Three is about Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties who lives together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam, a younger man...
Synopsis: Three is about Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties who lives together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam, a younger man...
- 11/27/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
After faltering with The International, acclaimed and very interesting filmmaker Tom Tykwer has made his first German film in several years. The movie is Drei (Three) and we've seen a couple of stills [1] in the past months, but haven't had a lot of info. Turns out there's a German trailer for the film, and while half the clip will be inscrutable for those who don't speak German (like me) there's enough material here to give you some idea of what the film offers. Thanks to Quiet Earth [2] for pointing this one out; looks like it's a trailer that has been around for a bit. This is a strange trailer -- the first part, with the narration over the camera pan across wires, was released as a teaser. But then there's a rocking middle section and a final chunk set to David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' which seems to present a...
- 11/27/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
When an audience member wondered aloud at the Toronto Film Festival why Susanne Bier decided to change the English title of her latest film "In a Better World" from its original Danish translation "The Revenge," the director of "After the Wedding" and "Brothers" told the crowd that she was concerned it would be perceived as a horror film. In a way, "In a Better World" actually fits that bill nicely, not as part of that particular genre, but instead as a well-told parable about on the futile perpetuation of violence.
To date, the only explosions in Bier's work have occurred figuratively, the product of slow-simmering spats between lovers or people at an emotional crossroads of one kind or another that come to a head. Here, they become literal in the story of Elias (Markus Rygaard) and Christian (William Johnk Nielsen), a pair of middle school classmates who seek out retribution...
To date, the only explosions in Bier's work have occurred figuratively, the product of slow-simmering spats between lovers or people at an emotional crossroads of one kind or another that come to a head. Here, they become literal in the story of Elias (Markus Rygaard) and Christian (William Johnk Nielsen), a pair of middle school classmates who seek out retribution...
- 9/20/2010
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Notes on some of the most interesting competition titles that screened at the Venice Film Festival this year, which wraps with its award ceremony today. A very strong Competition lineup that proves that artistic director Marco Müller still has what it takes and Cannes should be worried.
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
Aronofsky’s spectacular Black Swan is a gorgeously shot, arrestingly assembled and impressively acted take on the dualistic nature of creativity and art. Mastering the techniques of a chosen discipline is a first necessary step towards greatness for every artist, but it is only when you’ve mastered all the rules that creative types are really able to break them and find something truly new and original. Long story short: A little abandon goes a long way, and French ballet teacher Thomas (Vincent Cassel, supremely oily and intensely physical) keeps hammering on perfect ballerina Nina (Nathalie Portman) to...
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
Aronofsky’s spectacular Black Swan is a gorgeously shot, arrestingly assembled and impressively acted take on the dualistic nature of creativity and art. Mastering the techniques of a chosen discipline is a first necessary step towards greatness for every artist, but it is only when you’ve mastered all the rules that creative types are really able to break them and find something truly new and original. Long story short: A little abandon goes a long way, and French ballet teacher Thomas (Vincent Cassel, supremely oily and intensely physical) keeps hammering on perfect ballerina Nina (Nathalie Portman) to...
- 9/11/2010
- MUBI
Another interesting title at this year’s Venice Film Festival (from September 1 – 11) is the project titled Three (Drei), In Competition, from director Tom Tykwer (we all remember him from movie Run, Lola, Run).
Three
Three is already being described as a “relationship-movie”, about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings, or if you prefer the official synopsis part:
“A love story Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam – and fall in love with him. When Hanna becomes pregnant, their whistle is blown – and the question arises: Who is the father?”
Three
Three is a tragicomical movie about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings.
Director Tykwer described his new movie saying that “Three very...
Three
Three is already being described as a “relationship-movie”, about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings, or if you prefer the official synopsis part:
“A love story Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam – and fall in love with him. When Hanna becomes pregnant, their whistle is blown – and the question arises: Who is the father?”
Three
Three is a tragicomical movie about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings.
Director Tykwer described his new movie saying that “Three very...
- 9/2/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Twitch has provided a few first look images from Tom Tykwer‘s Three (German title: Drei), a contemporary love story set in current day Berlin. Tykwer is probably most known for Run Lola Run and The International, although his newest title seems deviate largely from the fast-paced feel of those two films. The full plot synopsis, provided by /Film, can be read below:
Three is about Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties who lives together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam, a younger man – and fall in love with him. When Hanna becomes pregnant, their whistle gets blown – and the question pops up: Who is the father? Three is a tragicomical movie about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings.
The cast is made up mostly of reputable German actors, including Sophie Rois,...
Three is about Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties who lives together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam, a younger man – and fall in love with him. When Hanna becomes pregnant, their whistle gets blown – and the question pops up: Who is the father? Three is a tragicomical movie about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings.
The cast is made up mostly of reputable German actors, including Sophie Rois,...
- 8/25/2010
- by Danny King
- The Film Stage
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has released the first four photos from Tom Tykwer's new film Drei (English translation: Three), a contemporary love story set in current day Berlin which is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film is Tykwer’s first German project in a decade, and the first movie he has written himself since 2000. Here is the official plot synopsis: Three is about Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties who lives together in Berlin. Unknown to each other they both become acquainted with Adam, a younger man - and fall in love with him. When Hanna becomes pregnant, their whistle gets blown - and the question pops up: Who is the father? Three is a tragicomical movie about love, morals and the sexes in a late-modernist German society at the mercy of its mixed feelings. The cast includes German actors Sophie Rois, Devid Striesow...
- 8/24/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Are you guys ready for the oldest film festival in the world? Yeah, sure you are! Who’s crazy enough to miss all that glamour, great movies, and well-known faces? Guess nobody!
This year’s Venice Film Festival runs from September 1- 11th and some great titles will compete for Leone d’Oro, or if you prefer Golden Lion, indeed!
Just in case you don’t trust us, check out a list of all the films playing in competition:
In Competition
Black Swan, Opening Night Film (dir. Darren Aronofsky – U.S.) Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
La Pecora Nera, (dir. Ascanio Celestini – Italy) Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Maya Sansa
Somewhere, (dir. Sofia Coppola – U.S.) Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura
Happy Few, (dir. Antony Cordier – France) Marina Fois, Elodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle
The Solitude of Prime Numbers,...
This year’s Venice Film Festival runs from September 1- 11th and some great titles will compete for Leone d’Oro, or if you prefer Golden Lion, indeed!
Just in case you don’t trust us, check out a list of all the films playing in competition:
In Competition
Black Swan, Opening Night Film (dir. Darren Aronofsky – U.S.) Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
La Pecora Nera, (dir. Ascanio Celestini – Italy) Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi, Maya Sansa
Somewhere, (dir. Sofia Coppola – U.S.) Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura
Happy Few, (dir. Antony Cordier – France) Marina Fois, Elodie Bouchez, Roschdy Zem, Nicolas Duvauchelle
The Solitude of Prime Numbers,...
- 7/30/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
The line-up for the 67th Venice Film Festival has finally been announced and we've handily posted the runners and riders below...
The Italian cinematic shindig, which runs from September 1-11 and features the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo Arriaga, Arnaud Desplechin, Danny Elfman, Luca Guadagnino and Gabriele Salvatores on the competition jury, has pulled out all the stops this year with some very exciting flicks.
Top on our list of must-see movies includes Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, Vincent Gallo's Promises Written In Water and Anh Hung Tran's Murasaki adaptation Norwegian Wood.
The films to be shown at the 67th Venice Film Festival are...
Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel.
La Pecora Nera, directed by Ascanio Celestini and starring Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi and Maya Sansa
Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Stephen Dorff,...
The Italian cinematic shindig, which runs from September 1-11 and features the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Guillermo Arriaga, Arnaud Desplechin, Danny Elfman, Luca Guadagnino and Gabriele Salvatores on the competition jury, has pulled out all the stops this year with some very exciting flicks.
Top on our list of must-see movies includes Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, Vincent Gallo's Promises Written In Water and Anh Hung Tran's Murasaki adaptation Norwegian Wood.
The films to be shown at the 67th Venice Film Festival are...
Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel.
La Pecora Nera, directed by Ascanio Celestini and starring Ascanio Celestini, Giorgio Tirabassi and Maya Sansa
Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Stephen Dorff,...
- 7/29/2010
- Screenrush
Tilda Swinton likes to make films in between organising flash mobs (google it). She’s comfortable in arty stuff and Hollywood. She’s what you’d call a brilliant actress.
According to director Ulrike Ottinger via her own website, Swinton will be playing the infamous mass murderer Elizabeth Bathory in a movie entitled The Blood Countess. Even more intriguing is Elfriede Jelinek has co-written the script!
The film has also lined up French legend Isabelle Huppert, Udo Kier, Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek. A fine European production! Elizabeth Bathory murdered hundreds of young girls believing their virgin blood would keep her young for ever. It didn’t and she spent her remaining years locked in a room in her castle. She became a legend and infamous historical figure!
This looks very promising. Ottinger’s director’s statement on the website gives a glimpse into what sounds...
According to director Ulrike Ottinger via her own website, Swinton will be playing the infamous mass murderer Elizabeth Bathory in a movie entitled The Blood Countess. Even more intriguing is Elfriede Jelinek has co-written the script!
The film has also lined up French legend Isabelle Huppert, Udo Kier, Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek. A fine European production! Elizabeth Bathory murdered hundreds of young girls believing their virgin blood would keep her young for ever. It didn’t and she spent her remaining years locked in a room in her castle. She became a legend and infamous historical figure!
This looks very promising. Ottinger’s director’s statement on the website gives a glimpse into what sounds...
- 6/29/2010
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Another name has been added to the ever growing list of folks who are looking to bathe in the blood of young virgins. I mean who wouldn't want to, right? We feel bad for the poor jackass who has to wash all those damned towels afterward.
Over on director Ulrike Ottinger's website word has come that Tilda Swinton (Constantine, The Chronicles of Narnia) is the latest actress to star as the psychotic Countess Elizabeth (Erzsebeth) Bathory in The Blood Countess (Die Blutgrafin).
Swinton will be joining the previously announced Isabelle Huppert (pictured below with Swinton), Udo Kier (Suspiria), Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek.
Synopsis
Impatiently awaiting the arrival of her devoted maid Hermine, the countess Erzsébeth Báthory, also known as La Comtesse Sanglante, a tigress in human disguise, ascends into the open daylight. At breathtaking speed, the two women race through a Vienna of ghoulish beauty.
Over on director Ulrike Ottinger's website word has come that Tilda Swinton (Constantine, The Chronicles of Narnia) is the latest actress to star as the psychotic Countess Elizabeth (Erzsebeth) Bathory in The Blood Countess (Die Blutgrafin).
Swinton will be joining the previously announced Isabelle Huppert (pictured below with Swinton), Udo Kier (Suspiria), Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek.
Synopsis
Impatiently awaiting the arrival of her devoted maid Hermine, the countess Erzsébeth Báthory, also known as La Comtesse Sanglante, a tigress in human disguise, ascends into the open daylight. At breathtaking speed, the two women race through a Vienna of ghoulish beauty.
- 6/28/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
According to Director Ulrike Ottinger's website, Tilda Swinton (Constantine, The Chronicles of Narnia) will be the latest actress to star as the psychotic (yet lovely) Countess Elizabeth (Erzsebeth) Bathory in The Blood Countess (Die Blutgrafin). She'll star alongside Isabelle Huppert, Udo Kier (Suspiria), Sophie Rois, Udo Samel, Irm Hermann, and Nicholas Ofczarek. You'll find the full synopsis below, alongside a look at Swinton and Huppert meeting the producers at last year's Cannes market. "Impatiently awaiting the arrival of her devoted maid Hermine, the countess Erzsébeth Báthory, also known as La Comtesse Sanglante, a tigress in human disguise, ascends into the open daylight. At breathtaking speed, the two women race through a Vienna of ghoulish beauty. Their entourage: Báthorys nephew Bubi, a vegetarian vampire who refuses to follow family traditions, his therapist, two wacky vampirologists, some members of the duelling fraternity "Vampiria", an all-female music ensemble, and many more. " More...
- 6/28/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
In the months since The International opened to generally dismissive reviews, there have been a few really intriguing hints about future projects from director Tom Tykwer. He's been linked to films based on Cloud Atlas, the postmodern novel by David Mitchell, and What is the What, the Dave Eggers book about the Lost Boys of Sudan. But he's also been quietly filming a new feature called Drei (Three), which wrapped last week. We don't yet know much, but what we've got is after the break. In an article about sales agents The Match Factory dealing with international sales for the film, Screen Daily offers a tiny bit more plot recap than we've previously known. Producer Stefan Arndt says the film "centres on three characters in their mid-40s and the appearance of obsessions one had never imagined existed." Sophie Rois, Devid Striesow and Sebastian Schipper star as the three primaries.
- 12/2/2009
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Cologne, Germany -- Tom Tykwer's menage a trois drama "Drei" (Three) and new adaptations of Franz Kafka and Daniel Kehlmann were among the projects backed in the latest round of funding by regional subsidy body Filmstifftung Nrw.
The Nrw film board signed a €400,000 ($600,000) check for Tykwer's latest -- the director's first German-language film since "The Princess and the Warrior" (2000). The drama, starring Devid Striesow, Sophie Rois and Sebastian Schipper focuses on a 40-something couple in Berlin who, separately, fall in love with the same man. "Drei" has already secured around $1 million in subsidies from the Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard and some $750,000 from federal film board the Ffa.
Jochen Alexander Freydank, an Oscar winner for his 2007 short "Toyland," picked up €225,000 ($336,000) in backing from Nrw towards his feature debut, an adaptation of the unfinished Kafka short story "The Burrow." The drama, which follows a mole-like man who has shut himself off from the outside world,...
The Nrw film board signed a €400,000 ($600,000) check for Tykwer's latest -- the director's first German-language film since "The Princess and the Warrior" (2000). The drama, starring Devid Striesow, Sophie Rois and Sebastian Schipper focuses on a 40-something couple in Berlin who, separately, fall in love with the same man. "Drei" has already secured around $1 million in subsidies from the Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard and some $750,000 from federal film board the Ffa.
Jochen Alexander Freydank, an Oscar winner for his 2007 short "Toyland," picked up €225,000 ($336,000) in backing from Nrw towards his feature debut, an adaptation of the unfinished Kafka short story "The Burrow." The drama, which follows a mole-like man who has shut himself off from the outside world,...
- 11/24/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Frankfurt, Germany -- Tom Tykwer has secured a further €500,000 ($747,000) in financing from the German Federal Film Board (Ffa) for his film "Drei" (Three), currently shooting in Berlin.
"Drei" will be Tykwer's first German-language project since "The Princess and the Warrior" (2000).
The threesome drama centers on a fortysomething couple in Berlin who separately fall in love with the same man. It stars Devid Striesow ("The Counterfeiters"), Sophie Rois ("Learning to Lie") and Sebastian Schipper, who has had supporting roles in Tykwer's "The Princess and the Warrior," "Run, Lola, Run" and "Winter Sleepers."
Tykwer's longtime business partner Stefan Arndt is producing through their Berlin-based X Filme shingle. Shooting is set to wrap in November for a late summer 2010 release through X Filme's distribution arm X Verleih.
Other projects picking up Ffa funding included "Wer Wenn Nicht Wir" (Who When Not Us) from Andres Veiel ("Black Box Brd") and the...
"Drei" will be Tykwer's first German-language project since "The Princess and the Warrior" (2000).
The threesome drama centers on a fortysomething couple in Berlin who separately fall in love with the same man. It stars Devid Striesow ("The Counterfeiters"), Sophie Rois ("Learning to Lie") and Sebastian Schipper, who has had supporting roles in Tykwer's "The Princess and the Warrior," "Run, Lola, Run" and "Winter Sleepers."
Tykwer's longtime business partner Stefan Arndt is producing through their Berlin-based X Filme shingle. Shooting is set to wrap in November for a late summer 2010 release through X Filme's distribution arm X Verleih.
Other projects picking up Ffa funding included "Wer Wenn Nicht Wir" (Who When Not Us) from Andres Veiel ("Black Box Brd") and the...
- 10/15/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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