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A touch of yard haunts this misty morning by the Riga Opera House, where the head of the European Film Academy (EFA) answers questions posed by the local press. EFA President Vim Venderss – as it says fine Latvian transcribed on the Podiumsschildchen – praises the “European film family”, the much more likely to come together in the Latvian capital to celebrate the community because for a showdown. Also managing Mariona Doringa aka Marion Döring relies on the mantra “celebration” instead of “competition”.
Why yard? In the Hof Film Festival in Upper Franconia meet in decades rather rustic German film family, and the little festival that presents all sorts of very latest from domestic film Landing, dispensed on a family friendly competition. The European Film Awards in turn, will be awarded according to complicated nomination procedure and in over 20 categories, this year for the 27th time. And while Wim Wenders openly acknowledges, we talk every now and then on the elimination of competition, the new executive chef Agnieszka Holland argues further ado for competition: “Competition is human nature.”
Between cozy warmth and cool will to win commutes because the temperature on Saturday night, as the silver statuettes in the core categories go almost exclusively to the Polish candidates “Ida”. On the one philosophizes Timothy Spall, laureate for his starring role in Mike Leigh famosem “Mr. Turner, “charming about the impossibility of comparing a banana with a pineapple. In the “fruit basket called art” he himself incidentally “an old apple London”. On the other hand, the organizers had devised a strange method for the handover of the main prize. In all five candidates for the European Film of the year the producer or lead actor on the stage can boast their own works and then in front of everyone at the same time open the envelopes handed. Four rivets and a grand prize: Well, if that is not the ultimate atmospheric damping Competition
Nonetheless, no one begrudged the Poles living in London Pawlikowski, who after documentary successes with “Last Resort” and “My Summer of Love “for the feature film changed its prices for” Ida “. The film of the 57-year-old grew up in an orphanage novice, experienced shortly before her vows to the Jewess Ida life stone is actually whose parents were murdered by Polish peasants, is an impeccable cinematic art. Black and white shot, in the political rigor of the early Wajda and tamed force of the figures in the early Polanski reminiscent 1962 is moved family tracing touched precise and highly effective scar tenderness fields of anti-Catholicism and Communism. Brilliant in the lead roles: the debutante Agata Trzebuchowska as a convent schoolgirl and Agata Kulesza than their live so thirsty as suicidal aunt, a former judge in the post-war show trials that accompanies the young girl on a journey into the past
. A mere 20 000 spectators – compared to the nearly thirty times in France, and even in the US, the film had 450,000 viewers – has already won many awards “Ida” can lure to the movies in Germany: one of the many Armutszeugnisse for this country never quite to forces upcoming film culture. Launched in April in the cinema, “Ida”, although long available on DVD; but perhaps encouraged the resounding success of Riga so many movies to show the extraordinary film again on the big screen. The more than 3,000 gathered at the Film Academy of the continent filmmakers and festival organizers can not be wrong – at least not entirely, however
Amazing remains that none of the other four each nominated in several categories candidates for the best European film only. a single trophy conquered. Even an audience award brings “Ida”, even against the popular, magnificent “Philomena” with Judi Dench – Pawel Pawlikowski why immediately turned his astonishment at the fresh love of the audience to black and white and rigid camera in a jocular praise of democracy. No chance for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s so Cannes winner “hibernation”, no chance for Lars von Trier’s radical Sex Nightmare “Nymphomaniac”. Will conjure up not only the greatest avalanche of all time on the screen, but also drive the European divorce rates in the amount – no chance for the passionately discussed Swedish marriage drama “Force Majeure”, with director Ruben Östlund – in the words of its lead actor John Kuhnke .
Painful is the collective no show “Ida” -Konkurrenten in the face of Andrei Swjaginzews “Leviathan”. The Russian, who with his debut album “The Return” in Venice won the Golden Lion ten years ago and since then a great movie after another turn, tells a dramatic progressive family disaster from the northern edge of the world, which can be read politically, religiously and philosophically – and at the same time always poetic looks. The film at Cannes, won the screenplay prize and so far neither in his homeland nor in Germany in the movies, is Russia’s Oscar nominee. In Riga missed the opportunity to honor a stunning film that speaks differently “Ida” of the present – in an aesthetically genuinely European tradition. Politically, Russia is currently drifting away – and it also happens in the best film of families that outsiders can easily pull
What else remains of this Latvian EFA trip.? The joy of German hand over the documentary prize for Marc Bauders elegant Investment Banker psychogram “Master of the Universe”: a German-Austria Siche production of that very director who with his brother who staged “lights border” Fall of the Wall anniversary on 9 November. Also: Moderator Thomas “Nonsense Comedy Club” Hermanns, new to the splendiden five year reign Anke Engelke, who playfully introduces himself as “openly gay German comedian”, but otherwise mostly through rather creamy German accent in the gala striking language English. And that the EFA again want to think intensively over a name for their sleek statuette – despite the hardships with the significance differences same words in European languages. Ida, for example? Probably not; there is a Danish thriller called “ID: A” stands for “Identity: Anonymous”. How about, quite simply, wit h Eva?
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