Film “The beautiful days of Aranjuez” in Venice – Wim Wenders fulfilled … – Germany Kultur

By Peter Claus

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Wim Wenders at the 73rd International Film Festival in Venice on the red carpet. He presented there his film “The beautiful days of Aranjuez” competition. (Picture alliance / dpa / Ettore Ferrari)

Wim Wenders’ film “The beautiful days of Aranjuez” celebrated at the Venice Film Festival premiere. An aging couple talking in the garden of the world, love and sex – and it is as if one could engage in this 3D film in their reality

Without doubt. Wim Wenders with his adaptation of Peter Handke theater text “the beautiful days of Aranjuez” presented the hitherto most beautiful film in competition at the 73rd International Venice film festival – and one of his most personal ever

Wim Wenders:. “Yes, I come here sometimes before my hand is to be seen, I draw because times because of Jens was gone. But otherwise you’re right, it is a projection of the filmmaker. the narrator is myself, yes. “

The language is easy, shimmering, elegant. The standing in the center this week an unnamed woman, played by Sophie Semin, and an unnamed man, Reda Kateb, in the garden of a small villa in the countryside outside Paris looks gorgeous graceful how hard the dialogues and monologues also issues of identity, sexuality , understanding the world revolve. These Wim Wenders has made a decisive change: He has the figure of the writer, played by Jens Harzer, inserted which imagines the conversation of the couple and writes down

Film clip:. “And another summer, and again a beautiful summer day. “

Wenders:” We had between tweak us all “

again and again the camera, usually very slowly and prudently distance is about the couple circles on the terrace, to the man at the typewriter in the house. We see it were Wim Wenders to yourself at work, see how he, the author, characters creates, rejects ideas, details changed, the protagonist gives words, reverse the be inside out. At his side: a jukebox of brand Wurlitzer, full soulful songs for inspiration. Since the writer is sinking because sometimes in his ideas and suddenly Nick Cave, singing at the piano in his home. In moments like this, the power of dreaming, as she only knows the cinema, summoned for the best.

Donata Wenders. Director Wim Wenders and the actors Sophie Semin, Reda Kateb and Jens Harzer from his film “the beautiful days of Aranjuez” (picture alliance / dpa / Ettore Ferrari)

Wim Wenders : “It has just felt in making that there really is a dream come true, we had between tweak all, ‘Why is it so easy to make films?’ We did not want to wake up. We also had not wake up. “

In the image design of the painter Wim Wenders has the say. The lush garden with its meadows, flowers and trees, where, incidentally, Peter Handke briefly appears as a guest in the mini Part of bushes cut gardener, is the ideal stage for the rich exchange of views on the meaning of being human.

filmmaker as storyteller , photographer and painter

Wim Wenders: “filmmaking is so what, what includes everything because you’re just narrator, and photographer, and painter and property manager, and lawyer and everything else in a person. . and films try halt, the time anyway as complex as possible to express. for this has for me always painting belongs. “

Wim Wenders calls attention. Since paying off the use of 3D. The images facilitate access which will generate an unusual for the movies nearby. One feels as a spectator to intervene in the reality of the film. The festival audience was mostly noticeable with delight on a. The applause was warm. Afterwards we saw talking outside the theater about the film many people. No wonder that Wim Wenders shines in Venice, despite the pain due to a small eye surgery a few days ago.

Now the jury at the train is. Yet speculation is completely nonsensical. Too many competition entries are made. But “The beautiful days of Aranjuez” is guaranteed already on the list of candidates for a price. Quite possible that Wim Wenders gets his second Golden Lion.