“24 weeks” at the Berlinale: A film with as close as possible – Tagesspiegel

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The German contribution in the competition the intimate family drama “24 weeks” created. But the film evokes so many emotions that our author feels almost spoon-fed.

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potassium chloride injection. The set is from the 22nd week. From week 22 the probability is high that the child is born alive in an abortion. The heart must first stand still, so the syringe before the birth is initiated. Astrid is in the 24th week

taboo topic of abortion. 90 percent of women in Germany opt for an abortion, if it turns out after the third month, that their child has a malformation. Director Anne Zohra Berrached puts the number at the press conference on Sunday again. There are mothers who decide no one else. No one can take it from them, it is about life and death, which is Berracheds topic. In the film there is one, it could also not take such a decision, which was not in a situation of having to make it. “24 weeks”, Berracheds degree film, the only German competition entry, zooms up close: a highly moral drama

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Schicker properties including nannies

Julia Jentsch is Astrid Lorenz. Successful TV comedienne, sassy, ​​confident, with both feet in life, as they say. A little storybook existence it off, with her lying at the feet of cohabiting (Bjarne Mädel as Markus), little daughter, caring mother (Joan Gastdorf), a chic new building outside the city, including nannies, garden with hammock and fan mail free of charge. “Do you notice anything?” Asks Astrid, the studio audience and stretched her pregnant belly in front of the fitting Glitter Mini. “Exactly, I got new shoes!”

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The Pointe sits, as well as the film accurately portrays: a young family here today who are just expecting her second child. Everything was great despite the stress at work, to real baby in-utero recordings as well as the symbolic underwater scenes like used during pregnancy issue in the indoor pool. Until Astrid during ultrasonic learns that the baby has Down syndrome. What do we do now? It tears the pair almost

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Downie, one may say ?, wants Astrid knowledge. Sure, says Markus, only Mongo does not go. The friends, relatives react upset, but the decision is soon clear. Until it turns out that the baby also has a serious heart defect, it will survive only with the help of several complicated operations – maybe. What do we do now?

Improvised Dialogues ensure authenticity

That she became mother is Julia Jentsch says on the podium, helped her. The script had to move, but she was also shied away. And that Berracheds search had also helped her also encountering affected couples

Berracheds method, as with her debut film “Two mothers.” – In which a lesbian couple on the realization of his wish for children breaks almost – half documentary to work, to let doctors, clinicians, psychologists and comedians to play himself, pulls a captivated. The dialogues of the Professional Actor ensure authenticity: Jentsch, lass, Gastdorf, they improvise on the basis of the script, a proven method, see Andreas Dresen’s cancer drama “Stopped on Track”. People talk as in real life, impulsive, haltingly, in the rough – and all at the same time, when everything is at stake

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the 33-year-old director emphasizes close as possible to a cinema that gets under your skin. The camera (peace Clausz) scans Julia Jentsch facial features, followed Astrid despair, loneliness in deciding the fluctuations of their moral compass to the smallest muscle twitching inside. And also in the hospital appears Berrached not go away until the potassium chloride injection by the audience is as close as possible here. It was violent, remember the actor. They would have cried, confess some journalists at the press conference – and an American speculates that will be determined controversial “24 weeks” in America, where in 22 states every abortion is prohibited. A German film with a high degree of inexorability, urgency, commitment: From ready-made is “24 weeks” away

close is not a question of the camera distance

And yet remains an uneasiness. you feel a little patronized: near the cinema is not a question of the camera distance. The strongest moments developed Berracheds film because even where unexpected; supposedly meaningless comes into the picture. An opencast mining in the hazy light, a wind turbine field on his way home along the highway – and you can grasp with his hands, like Astrid’s senses are stunned by the inevitability of the decision, the overtaxing

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this Monday is half the 66th Berlinale competition. As the images are drifting apart. Here the world containing, political contributions, Lampedusa, Tunisia, Angola, there the intimate dramas. Here the war and Mediterranean dead, there the preciousness of a single human life – in close-up with strong female characters, Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain, Julia Jentsch. Cinema at the ends opposite – not a bad vintage so far

15.2.. 10 am (HdBF), 12:15 (Friedrichstadtpalast), 18 pm (Zoo-Palast), 16.2. 21:30 (New Kammerspiele), 21.2. 22:00 (HdBF)

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