“The search for happiness or the right to happiness,” says Festival had head the 66th Berlinale, its 15th year overwritten.
This can be a film critic who strikes since Thursday night by the competition program, this right away: the right to happiness, which does not, damn it for us when I made the press screening of the Canadian filmI want you (and me) not so long with this new film by Denis Coté ( “Vic + Flo saw a bear”) stop, because he talks about little, as well as unimaginative didactically how in 2016 would not even more put on a play: the businessman Boris (James Hyndman) is as successful as recklessly arrogant Kotzbrocken and enjoys himself rather with his blond employees (or, alternatively, the maid), than with his wife, said Béatrice, a Minister, the forfeit of ominous reasons in a catatonic state of melancholy.
A gnome-like stranger (Denis Lavant) Boris appears in a style similar to David Lynch scene and urges him to take better care of his wife and to change, otherwise it will be bad. That does Boris then without the audience will notice much of his inner motivations – must be at the end of the film in a kind of wrong intervention with his daughter and mother at the kitchen table still originating from Greek mythology parable Tantalus and its torments from Gnome can recite. God wants you to do the right thing, alright. That’s about one of the leitmotifs of the opening film “Hail, Caesar”, with the major difference that the Coen brothers have made it a quite entertaining film, Coté but bored.The happiness was so a bit first coming, as always at the Berlinale you have to work hard for it. The reward for Denis Cotés Critics agony followed but then on Friday with the science fiction film “Midnight Special” by Jeff Nichols. The US director, who had presented his outstanding last two films “Take Shelter” and “Mud” in Cannes, scored his Berlinale debut of its first climax in the competition.
Mutant, superweapon or Saviour
equal repeatedly he lures the viewer in his thriller on the wrong track: First they think they are in a classic Road- Movie because of the small Alden Meyer was kidnapped, the population of Texas is invited in the TV news, to look for the boy out. However, it soon becomes clear that the kidnapper Alden’s biological father, who owns Little supernatural abilities and at the farm where he grew up, was worshiped by a sect as the Redeemer in the coming doomsday and detained.
With a muscle car from the seventies and a stack of equally old “Superman” comics wants Papa Roy (Michael Shannon) out him of his true destiny. He gets help from his old pal, the State Trooper Lucas (Joel Edgerton) and Alden’s mother (Kirsten Dunst). The state is the supposed super beings on the track, especially the NSA analyst Paul Sevier (Adam Driver) wants to understand what he has to do it and who has the power to crash a satellite from space through a gas station in nowhere to leave. Mutant, Mega weapon or Messiah? What’s this Alden who can make his eyes bright light glisten? And who wants to here is actually the right thing?
A lot of Spielberg, a bit Carpenter and more
He had an old fashioned movie as John Carpenter’s sci-fi Dramolett “Starman” (1984) turn want says director Nichols, a reverence which can be traced to the official poster. At the end of even one serving landed pure Spielberg movie with it, “Sugarland Express” as well as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. Nichols original handwriting is however becoming increasingly clear: The 37-year-old auteur can thrilling action as certain stage as the surprising sci-fi show values in the last act and the soulful-intimate interaction of its consistently great performer.
“Take Shelter” with Michael Shannon, who gave the doomsday prophets then, was about his fears, soon to be responsible as a father says Nichols. In “Midnight Special” it go now is to work through his traumatic experiences of helplessness that he had, as his own young son was hospitalized suddenly: “I realized that fatherhood means to return a part of me to the universe.” Which visual and dramatic impact Nichols exactly has processed in a fantastic, but also very personal at the same movie is best as soon as possible to itself. German film will be released this coming Thursday.Also in Tunisia happiness is wanted
A stroke of luck for the festival (and the public) and the debut feature is “Hedi” of the Tunisian director Mohammed Ben Attia, which ran in the competition also on Friday. With the Belgian social drama specialists Dardenne brothers as co-producer Ben Attia tells an intimate story about a young sales representatives, the mind fails in the province of troubled North African state, local shops Peugeots for sale.
It simply does not work, and of his company, he gets not even free to go with his wife designate the honeymoon. he has chosen the bride not, everything was arranged by his single mother and in-laws-to-be. Hedi, ie as the early haarverlustige lad, had bad luck: His older brother has long since fled to France, and there he sits now, virtually incapacitated, and must marry into a rich family to secure the livelihood of his domineering mother. but on a business trip in the resort of Mahdia he then learns the vivacious entertainer Rim know – and is suddenly found that life still may have quite different dimensions: freedom! Adventure! Extramarital sex and uninhibited fun!
Hedi only have to choose between tradition and modernity. Where exactly the happiness and the right future lies, which is not so easy to recognize. And that is also true for Tunisia and other countries by the outbursts of the Arab Spring. The of the Berlinale always emphasized political dimension can be as a film about this unobtrusive but concentrated staged story put – you can “Hedi” but also simply enjoy as touching men melodrama of a promising new directorial talent.
In Video: The trailer of “Midnight Special”
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