Venice
It is the only German director in competition at Venice: Wim Wenders presented “the beautiful days of Aranjuez” before – a film by Peter Handke
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“The beautiful days of Aranjuez” is based on a play by Peter Handke. It tells of the different ideas that have a man and a woman from life. Why this particular piece
WIM WENDERS: Because I think this is a beautiful and important text. The discourse between men and women will indeed take place hardly. , , Peter had already sent me the piece before it was published, with the question if I was interested in the making as a world premiere at the theater. I’ve been thinking maturely and then decided that I might be better suited to the text, if I could out produce him in nature, as a film. On a stage, because I was sure, others might do better.
With Handke They are close friends, you have been working for several movies. How do you work together
WENDERS: That was different each time, we have since no procedure. For “The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick” Peter gave me his novel, saying, “Do it!” I had just finished film school in Munich and was thanks to this “gift” or “contract” then the first – and only – this first year of the HFF (Note .: Academy of film and television), who actually made a film. The script I wrote alone, without the help of Peter, and have kept myself very strictly to the novel. At our next collaboration “Wrong Move” it was the reverse, since Peter has completely alone wrote the script after we had talked about how you could transmit Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” in the present time.
As it was in “Wings of Desire”
WENDERS: Since everything was still a difference. Since I have Peter plotted to write with me the script, and told him my story of the angels and of the trapeze artist. But Peter had just started a novel, did not want to interrupt this work and has canceled me with regret. So I had the soup, which I had brewed me auslöffeln alone. What I then did. But a real writer did not want to come out of it. So we finally just started to turn, without a fixed point. At the same time then this came thick letters, one after another, over several weeks. Sender: Peter Handke. He wrote that he had subsequently but regrets me so empty-handed to send away again, and because my story had somehow reverberated in him that he had started to write at random dialogues and monologues. (…) The rotation was broadly as a flight without instruments, but in between there were these fixed points of the texts of Peter, on which we have always flown. These texts were Handke’schen as our lighthouses.
The female lead in “The beautiful days of Aranjuez” plays Sophie Semin, wife of Peter Handke. That sounds as if it was received very family on set
WENDERS:? It was in fact very familiar, but for different reasons. We have for weeks rehearsed, mainly with Sophie and Reda Kateb, who plays the male lead. And these samples we have largely already made at the place where we then also rotated: an old country house in the Ile-de-France, inhabited turn of the century by Sarah Bernhardt, who had also planned the garden itself. The house is on a hill, the highest point of the Ile-de-France, and from there one has a broad view and see Paris in the plane, with the skyline of La Defense and the Eiffel Tower. This sample in this beautiful garden, with this view, the most consistently beautiful summer weather, all this has created a climate in which we have worked really familiar and without stress. I have rarely had such a totally relaxed Set
Did you worry that being close to the family Handke brings you as a director in conflict
WENDERS:.? No moment. Peter wrote the piece for Sophie, and I think highly of it as an actress. I have worked with her before, in my part of the movie “Beyond the Clouds” by Michelangelo Antonioni. For “Aranjuez” I have to write a role, that of the writer. Peter Handke himself has completely kept out of the whole preparation of the film. Even when filming he was there only one day. Since then he has had a small cameo as a gardener. But he has influenced neither the writer nor the interface in any way.
And why you have now again made a movie in 3D for “every thing will be fine”?
WENDERS : the film is so relaxed, and these three figures, the man, the woman and the author, are so present and “really” to this one scene, the home of Sarah Bernhardt in the middle of this garden, with Paris on the horizon, so “true” and, of course, that I never thought from the beginning to another medium than 3D. I was very sure that 3D is able to make characters and their stories in a space that is completely hyper-realistic and thus the viewer so displaced in the situation inside, as it just never was the two-dimensional medium. This film here, “The beautiful days of Aranjuez”, showing my dream of this new film language. And yes, this movie is certainly very far from any other 3D movie ever made. This here is really a natural vision, which owes nothing to the common film grammar
How important is a premiere at a film festival like Venice
WENDERS:.? Among the films numerous submitted at the end to be actually invited to the competition one of the major film festivals such as Cannes, Venice or Berlin, and an award just for arthouse films alone is vital. Here everyone gets film at a stroke the attention of a worldwide press and an international audience, as it would hardly be possible otherwise.
premiere in competition at the Venice
German Post Even with 71 years remains Wim Wenders a visionary. While Hollywood like rotates the bombastic 3D to let the effects are even more exciting in action movies, the German director chooses now again another way: at the festival in Venice Wenders revealed yesterday his film adaptation of Peter Handke’s play “The beautiful days of Aranjuez” – and staged the intimate relationship drama in 3D. The only German contribution in this year’s competition is a very atmospheric work on the differences between men and women
However, it is unusual to see such an intimate play like film in three-dimensional images. When the unnamed pair in the film about relationships, love, philosophizes sexual experiences or other major issues, the camera takes a laying on the porch in the middle of a lush garden. Spectators come starring in this way almost physically close, and yet by the Spatial same time a certain distance considerably.
Wim Wenders, who worked for this once again with his longtime friend Peter Handke, but it also succeeds to create a wonderfully summery relaxed mood, which is not only the soft sunlight. the film was shot in French in an old country house near Paris, where the wind in the trees and the chirping birds can be heard as well as songs that mostly come from an old jukebox: Lou Reed’s melancholy “A Perfect Day” places in the first scene sings about the images, while a little later Nick Cave sits at the piano and soulful “Into My Arms”.
about the person Wim Wenders, 71, is one of the most successful German directors , His most famous works include “Wings of Desire”, “The Million Dollar Hotel”, “Paris, Texas”, “Pina” and “Buena Vista Social Club”. Born in Dusseldorf Filemmacher already won numerous international awards including the European Film Awards, the Golden Lion in Venice and the Palme d’Or in Cannes. Three times he was nominated for an Oscar, but got nothing. dpa
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