Dear Child is a crime thriller from Netflix and an original miniseries that dives deep into the depths of a crime that took place a decade ago and the connection found to a woman who was severely injured. This genre always garners plenty of attention from the audience, for it does not spoon-feed them. It allows the audience to think from a different perspective as the drama surrounding the case unfolds, and many truths come out. Dear Child is based on the novel by Romy Hausman. Apart from being an investigative thriller drama, this show also brings forward the effects of trauma, manipulation, and their prolonged effects. The psychological effects of crime unravel as the show progresses and the hunt for the culprit begins.
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Story and Plot
Dear Child opens with a scene in a home where a young woman is playing with her two kids. The scenario...
Spoilers Ahead
Story and Plot
Dear Child opens with a scene in a home where a young woman is playing with her two kids. The scenario...
- 9/7/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The new six-part 'psychological thriller' TV miniseries "Dear Child", based on Romy Hausmann's best-selling novel, is written and directed by Julian Pörksen, starring Kim Riedle, Naila Schuberth, Sammy Schrein, Hans Löw, Haley Louise Jones, Justus von Dohnányi, Julika Jenkins, Birge Schade, Christian Beermann, Seraphina Maria Schweiger, Özgür Karadeniz, and Jeanne Goursaud, streaming September 7, 2023 on Netflix:
"... 'Lena' lives in complete isolation with her two children, 'Hannah' and 'Jonathan', in a high-security house. They eat their meals, go to the bathroom and go to bed at precisely prescribed times.
"But as soon as 'he' enters the room, they line up to show their hands. They do everything he says. Until the young woman manages to escape.
"After a near-fatal car accident, she is hospitalized, accompanied by Hannah. But the true extent of this nightmare is revealed when Lena's parents arrive at the hospital the same night. They have...
"... 'Lena' lives in complete isolation with her two children, 'Hannah' and 'Jonathan', in a high-security house. They eat their meals, go to the bathroom and go to bed at precisely prescribed times.
"But as soon as 'he' enters the room, they line up to show their hands. They do everything he says. Until the young woman manages to escape.
"After a near-fatal car accident, she is hospitalized, accompanied by Hannah. But the true extent of this nightmare is revealed when Lena's parents arrive at the hospital the same night. They have...
- 8/25/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Control makes us safe. Rules make us safe. Safety is the most important thing in life." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for Dear Child, a thrilling new crime series from Germany. It's not true crime, per se, but it definitely has that same kind of "true crime" vibe - Dear Child is based on Romy Hausmann's bestselling novel of the same name. After having been controlled by her captor for ages, Lena finally manages to escape – this is where Dear Child begins. But is breaking free truly liberating? Escaping captivity in a basement, a young girl and her unconscious mother are found at the site of a car accident. But their new freedom offers neither salvation nor security. The cast of this six-part series includes Kim Riedle, Naila Schuberth, Sammy Schrein, Hans Löw, Haley Louise Jones, Justus von Dohnányi, Julika Jenkins, Birge Schade, Christian Beermann, Seraphina Maria Schweiger,...
- 8/10/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Zurich-based Tellfilm, the Swiss outfit behind this year’s Golden Bear contender “Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert,” has lined up a robust co-production slate, teaming with European partners on the psychological thriller “Motherhood” and the period drama “Gloria!,” while developing their first scripted series “How to Be Sad – The Right Way” with an eye towards global streamers.
Co-produced by Austria’s Freibeuter Film (“The Great Freedom”) and with Germany’s The Match Factory handling international sales, the Johanna Moder directed “Motherhood” will tackle maternal anxieties through the lens of a tense psychological thriller. Production is slated for later this year, with actors Marie Leuenberger and Hans Löw signed as leads. “The Square” star Claes Bang is attached as well.
Lensing this May, the musical drama “Gloria!” will tell a story of artistic liberation in Baroque-era Venice. Headed by Tempesta’s Carlo Cresto-Dina – whose Alice Rohrwacher short “Le Pupille” is...
Co-produced by Austria’s Freibeuter Film (“The Great Freedom”) and with Germany’s The Match Factory handling international sales, the Johanna Moder directed “Motherhood” will tackle maternal anxieties through the lens of a tense psychological thriller. Production is slated for later this year, with actors Marie Leuenberger and Hans Löw signed as leads. “The Square” star Claes Bang is attached as well.
Lensing this May, the musical drama “Gloria!” will tell a story of artistic liberation in Baroque-era Venice. Headed by Tempesta’s Carlo Cresto-Dina – whose Alice Rohrwacher short “Le Pupille” is...
- 2/18/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The fifth edition will see the TV festival return to its original springtime slot to run alongside MipTV.
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
French Oscar-winning director Xavier De Lestrade’s investigative thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath and Danish bio-series The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen are among the 10 new series selected for competition in the upcoming edition of French TV festival Canneseries (April 1-6).
The fifth edition sees the event return its traditional springtime slot coinciding with the MipTV content market (April 4-6), after the festival moved to September in 2021 due to the Covid-pandemic.
Political thriller The Inside Game, Seeds Of Wrath stars Alix Poisson...
- 3/8/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review on the sci-fi romance “I’m Your Man” – featuring Dan Stevens (Disney’s live action “Beauty & the Beast”) – currently in select theaters.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Stevens portrays Tom, a robot programmed specifically to be a partner to an archeologist named Alma (Maren Eggert). She has agreed to the experiment to get funding, but immediately hates Tom’s perfect ways. As Tom becomes more human as his programming allows, he becomes confused by her reaction, and a different type of relationship between them evolves.
“I’m Your Man” is currently in select theaters. Featuring Dan Stevens, Maren Eggert, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, and Annika Meier. Written by Maria Schrader and Jan Schomberg. Directed by Maria Schrader. Rated “R”
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full audio review of “I’m Your Man”
I’m Your Man
Photo credit: Bleecker Street Media
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Rating: 4.5/5.0
Stevens portrays Tom, a robot programmed specifically to be a partner to an archeologist named Alma (Maren Eggert). She has agreed to the experiment to get funding, but immediately hates Tom’s perfect ways. As Tom becomes more human as his programming allows, he becomes confused by her reaction, and a different type of relationship between them evolves.
“I’m Your Man” is currently in select theaters. Featuring Dan Stevens, Maren Eggert, Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, and Annika Meier. Written by Maria Schrader and Jan Schomberg. Directed by Maria Schrader. Rated “R”
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full audio review of “I’m Your Man”
I’m Your Man
Photo credit: Bleecker Street Media
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- 10/19/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Dan Stevens as Tom and Maren Eggert as Alma, in German director Maria Schrader’s sci-fi I’M Your Man (Ich Bin Dein Mensch). Courtesy of Obscured Pictures and Bleecker Street
Would you fall in love with an android specially designed to please you? Would that be a good thing? That is the premise behind director Maria Schrader’s German sci-fi tale I’M Your Man (Ich Bin Dein Mensch) starring Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert. I’M Your Man starts out like a romantic comedy, but takes a deeper, more thoughtful, and thought-provoking turn in this excellent German language film. Of course, people falling in love with robots has a long literary history, going back to Pygmalion, and human-made men tales go back to the Golem and Frankenstein, was well as being a familiar science fiction theme. But Schrader, whose previous work includes the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” puts a new spin on...
Would you fall in love with an android specially designed to please you? Would that be a good thing? That is the premise behind director Maria Schrader’s German sci-fi tale I’M Your Man (Ich Bin Dein Mensch) starring Dan Stevens and Maren Eggert. I’M Your Man starts out like a romantic comedy, but takes a deeper, more thoughtful, and thought-provoking turn in this excellent German language film. Of course, people falling in love with robots has a long literary history, going back to Pygmalion, and human-made men tales go back to the Golem and Frankenstein, was well as being a familiar science fiction theme. But Schrader, whose previous work includes the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” puts a new spin on...
- 10/1/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Your dream partner. Built for you." Bleecker Street Films has debuted another new official US trailer for the beloved sci-fi romance indie film I'm Your Man, directed by German filmmaker Maria Schrader. This originally premiered at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year under the German title Ich bin dein Mensch, and lead actress Maren Eggert won the Silver Bear for Best Performance at the fest. In order to obtain research funds for her studies at a museum in Berlin, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid lover robot, created to make her happy. It's a flip on the idealistic robot lover concept, with Dan Stevens (speaking perfect German) as the perfect man for her, as determined by the programmers. But she doesn't like him, and really doesn't want a relationship, and this challenges her. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"You may not realise, but you treat Tom like a machine." Curzon has revealed an official UK trailer for the acclaimed sci-fi romance indie film I'm Your Man, directed by German filmmaker Maria Schrader. This originally premiered at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year under the German title Ich bin dein Mensch, and lead actress Maren Eggert won the Silver Bear for Best Performance at the festival. In order to obtain research funds for her studies at a museum in Berlin, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she has to live with a humanoid lover robot, created to make her happy. It's a flip on the robot lover concept, with Dan Stevens (speaking perfect German) playing the perfect man for her, as determined by the programmers. But she doesn't like him, and really doesn't want a relationship, and this challenges her.
- 7/28/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The new film by the German director will star actors Justus von Dohnányi and Hans Löw alongside newcomer Claude Heinrich as the main protagonist. The shoot for the adaptation of the novel Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen (lit. “We Are the Relatives”), written in 2018 by young German musician and first-time author Johann Scheerer, has started, helmed by director Hans-Christian Schmid, who wrote the script for this family drama together with Michael Gutmann. Schmid, best known for films such as Crazy (starring Robert Stadlober and Tom Schilling) and Requiem (starring Sandra Hüller), is producing the film together with Britta Knöller and their production company, 23/5 Filmproduktion. Through the unusual and enthralling perspective of a 13-year-old, the film tells the story of the abduction of Jan Philipp Reemtsma, which actually took place in 1996. Johann Scheerer, Reemtsma's son, converted his experience into a novel. He paints the portrait of a...
Exclusive: After the critical success of Netflix’s Unorthodox, series director Maria Schrader is teaming with Dan Stevens on Ich bin dein Mensch (I Am Your Man). The film, which recently wrapped production in Berlin and Denmark under strict conditions adapted in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, was shot entirely in German.
Stevens has spoken German most of his life and had previously used it for the 2008 film Hilde.
I Am Your Man tells a love story in the near future and is a comic-tragic tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is confronted with a “partnership robot” against her will. Stevens voices the robot. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck and Jürgen Tarrach.
Besides directing, Schrader also co-wrote the script with Jan Schombourg. It is based on...
Stevens has spoken German most of his life and had previously used it for the 2008 film Hilde.
I Am Your Man tells a love story in the near future and is a comic-tragic tale about the questions of love, longing and what makes a human being human. Maren Eggert plays a scientist who is confronted with a “partnership robot” against her will. Stevens voices the robot. The cast also includes Sandra Hüller, Hans Löw, Wolfgang Hübsch, Annika Meier, Falilou Seck and Jürgen Tarrach.
Besides directing, Schrader also co-wrote the script with Jan Schombourg. It is based on...
- 9/9/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The desire to have the world disappear overnight, leaving one alone with a devoted lover, undergirds many a melodrama, from All That Heaven Allows (1955) to The Bridges of Madison County (1995). It is also the bold, rather literal inspiration of Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room—an astonishingly protean film that begins as a minor-key character study of sad-sack, forty-something Berliner Armin (Hans Löw), before arriving at a place of strange, apocalyptic wonderment. Given the German director’s typically dogged, process-oriented realism, explicit references to Sirk’s Technicolor romance and Eastwood’s passionate two-hander—both of which emerge in the film’s later half—might seem misplaced. But it is this very tension between and union of opposites that will come to define Köhler’s fourth feature.When the film opens, though, we are faced with a reversal of a more banal sort. Armin, who works as a TV cameraman, makes...
- 10/23/2019
- MUBI
"A film of meticulous details and sly, subtle ironies." Grasshopper Film has debuted an official Us trailer for the cult hit German indie film In My Room, which originally premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year more than a year ago. They're finally releasing this hidden gem in Us cinemas starting this October, for anyone who still wants to catch up with it. In My Room is about a man, played by Hans Löw, who wakes up one day to discover he is the only person left alive on the entire planet. But this isn't really a sci-fi film, it's more of a low-key drama that plays this scenario out to the fullest. He builds a home and starts living on his own there. I saw this at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival last year and I seriously loved it, writing a glowing review saying it's a "brilliant" film...
- 9/20/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Red Arrow Studios International has sold neo-noir crime drama Stella Blómkvist to AMC Networks’ Sundance Now. The series has also been recommissioned for a second season by Síminn in Iceland. Produced by Sagafilm for Síminn and Viaplay, the series has been picked up by AMC Networks’ Sundance Now Svod platform for North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Shirley Bowers, VP Sales and Acquisitions for North America, Australia and New Zealand at Red Arrow Studios International concluded the deal with Sundance Now. The show stars Heida Reed (Poldark) as a quick-witted lawyer with a dark past, a fluid sexuality and a taste for whiskey and cases that lead to danger.
UK outfit Locksmith Animation has appointed Dónall Crehan as Chief Business Officer. Crehan will oversee the company’s legal and business affairs, business strategy and development, commercial operations and the implementation of its long and short-term strategic plans. He...
UK outfit Locksmith Animation has appointed Dónall Crehan as Chief Business Officer. Crehan will oversee the company’s legal and business affairs, business strategy and development, commercial operations and the implementation of its long and short-term strategic plans. He...
- 1/30/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Beta Cinema has taken worldwide rights to German director Edward Berger’s “All My Loving,” which will have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
The film, which plays in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar, follows three siblings who seem to be doing fine, but when cracks in their seemingly perfect lives appear, they realize something has to change if they are to find happiness.
Beta Cinema has all rights outside Germany and Austria. The film was produced by Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion in co-production with Pandora Film Produktion and Wdr. It previously handled sales on “Jack,” which was helmed by Berger and produced by his producer Jan Kruger. It played in competition in Berlin in 2014.
Featuring Lars Eidinger (“Personal Shopper”), Nele-Mueller Stöfen (“Jack”), and Hans Löw (“Toni Erdmann”), the film was written by Berger and Nele Mueller-Stöfen
“We are thrilled to collaborate again with such a capable and compassionate filmmaker,...
The film, which plays in Berlin’s Panorama sidebar, follows three siblings who seem to be doing fine, but when cracks in their seemingly perfect lives appear, they realize something has to change if they are to find happiness.
Beta Cinema has all rights outside Germany and Austria. The film was produced by Port au Prince Film & Kultur Produktion in co-production with Pandora Film Produktion and Wdr. It previously handled sales on “Jack,” which was helmed by Berger and produced by his producer Jan Kruger. It played in competition in Berlin in 2014.
Featuring Lars Eidinger (“Personal Shopper”), Nele-Mueller Stöfen (“Jack”), and Hans Löw (“Toni Erdmann”), the film was written by Berger and Nele Mueller-Stöfen
“We are thrilled to collaborate again with such a capable and compassionate filmmaker,...
- 1/29/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres.
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
The final titles for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (Feb 7-17) Panorama programme have been revealed.
Among the new additions is Light Of My Life, directed by and starring Casey Affleck and co-starring Elisabeth Moss.
Titles revealed back in December include Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, Seamus Murphy’s Pj Harvey documentary A Dog Called Money and Rob Garver’s documentary What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael.
The final Panorama selection includes 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres. There are 29 features, 16 documentaries and 19 directorial debuts.
The full list...
- 1/21/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Casey Affleck-directed drama Light Of My Life, starring Affleck, Elisabeth Moss and newcomer Anna Pniowsky, will get its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. The dystopian drama, about a father and his young daughter who are trapped in the woods, is one of a raft of additions to the Panorama lineup. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
- 1/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The 17th Marrakech International Film Festival (Nov 30 – Dec 08) has set a jury comprising Suspiria star Dakota Johnson, Indian actress Ileana D’Cruz (Barfi!), Lebanese filmmaker and visual artist Joana Hadjithomas (I Want To See), Brit director Lynne Ramsay (We Need To Talk About Kevin), Moroccan director Tala Hadid (House In The Fields), French director Laurent Cantet (The Class), German actor Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Mexican director Michel Franco (April’s Daughter). As previously revealed, director James Gray will serve as jury president.
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
A total of 80 films will unspool at the festival, with Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh biopic At Eternity’s Gate among gala screenings and also the festival’s opener. Other galas include Roma, Green Book and Capernaum while special screenings include Wildlife, Her Smell and Birds Of Passage. The official competition, galas and special screenings are listed below.
The festival will also feature tributes to Robert DeNiro, Robin Wright,...
- 11/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The following essay was produced as part of the 2018 Nyff Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics that took place during the 56th edition of the New York Film Festival.
From the beginning of Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room,” the timing is already off. A cameraman, later revealed to be our middling protagonist Armin (Hans Löw), has mixed up his on and off buttons, leaving footage of a conference with all the meat missing. Just as a politician is about to speak, the image and sound cut out. “Good thing we didn’t miss that,” someone mistakenly says in the background. Too bad they did.
The film’s title (presented in English) likely references the Beach Boys’ 1963 song of the same name: “There’s a world where I can go/And tell my secrets to/In my room.” The use of the song title hints at the desire...
From the beginning of Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room,” the timing is already off. A cameraman, later revealed to be our middling protagonist Armin (Hans Löw), has mixed up his on and off buttons, leaving footage of a conference with all the meat missing. Just as a politician is about to speak, the image and sound cut out. “Good thing we didn’t miss that,” someone mistakenly says in the background. Too bad they did.
The film’s title (presented in English) likely references the Beach Boys’ 1963 song of the same name: “There’s a world where I can go/And tell my secrets to/In my room.” The use of the song title hints at the desire...
- 10/28/2018
- by Susannah Gruder
- Indiewire
When we speak of someone “refusing to be a victim,” it’s usually in praise of their resolve and resilience: It’s a refusal that asserts an identity stronger than the worst adversity you’ve experienced. There’s undeniable power in that, but at what point does defiance twist into denial? This is the fine precipice on which German writer-director Eva Trobisch’s searing debut feature “All Good” balances its frayed-nerve drama — after a self-possessed young woman is raped by a man she hardly knows, and chooses to continue her life without acknowledging that fact. A fascinating flip on themes contentiously raised in Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle,”
Written as a graduation project at the London Film School and a worthy victor in Locarno’s first-feature competition, Trobisch’s finely poised film will likely prompt auspicious comparisons to the early work of Maren Ade as it burns through the festival circuit.
Written as a graduation project at the London Film School and a worthy victor in Locarno’s first-feature competition, Trobisch’s finely poised film will likely prompt auspicious comparisons to the early work of Maren Ade as it burns through the festival circuit.
- 8/29/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
What immense health German cinema has found itself in lately. Since the turn of the decade, audiences of a certain ilk have grown accustomed to seeing names like Ade, Petzold, Grisebach, Schanelec, and Köhler show up on art-house and festival screens. We may soon need to add Eva Trobisch to that list. Yes, if All Good (Alles ist gut)–her snare drum taut and timely feature debut–is anything to go by, the East Berlin-born writer-director should provide that rich vein of deutsche Regisseure will its latest transfusion.
For those not particularly adept with the German language, the phrase Alles ist gut is kind of like saying “s’all good.” You know, that thing one occasionally says when one would rather not face the not-goodness of things. Trobisch’s film stars Aenne Schwartz as Janne, a woman for whom a couple of things are definitely not good, namely the fact...
For those not particularly adept with the German language, the phrase Alles ist gut is kind of like saying “s’all good.” You know, that thing one occasionally says when one would rather not face the not-goodness of things. Trobisch’s film stars Aenne Schwartz as Janne, a woman for whom a couple of things are definitely not good, namely the fact...
- 8/9/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
At what point do vaguely-related surface movements form into something resembling a wave? The idea of a so-called “Berlin School” has been doing the rounds for quite a while. However, the creative output of that group of filmmakers in the last few years has been nothing short of astonishing. Christian Petzold led the way with Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014) but nothing could have prepared us for Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann rocking Cannes or Valeska Grisebach’s Western doing the same last year. Petzold’s Transit divided audiences (we thought it was great) in Berlin in February and now we encounter this strange, intimate, little science-fiction film.
In My Room is a story about being the last man on earth. Yes, we’ve been here before with the likes of Omega Man, A Boy and His Dog and, heck, even Wall-e (to name but a few) but this particular man isn...
In My Room is a story about being the last man on earth. Yes, we’ve been here before with the likes of Omega Man, A Boy and His Dog and, heck, even Wall-e (to name but a few) but this particular man isn...
- 5/25/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Lately, the Cannes Film Festival has had a great track record premiering films from the Berlin School filmmakers, beginning in 2016 with Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann and then in 2017 with Valeska Grisebach's Western. This run continues with In My Room, the incisive new film by Ade's partner, Ulrich Köhler—the German director's first feature in seven years.Like Western, it is a sly and restrained revision of a well-trod genre, in this case the last-man-on-Earth scenario. But that comes later; first, we are introduced to Hans Löw's Armin, a very average Berliner chastised at his job for his sloppiness—a television cameraman, he accidentally turns his camera off during political coverage and on during the bits in-between major speeches—and alone in his tiny studio flat. He travels to the suburbs to visit his father and look after his dying and bedridden grandmother, and after a depressed bender...
- 5/21/2018
- MUBI
You can’t call a film “In My Room” if you don’t want Brian Wilson’s spare, melancholic verses for the Beach Boys song of the same title to spring to mind: “Now it’s dark and I’m alone/But I won’t be afraid/In my room.” That indeed captures the mood of Ulrich Köhler’s disquieting, wonderfully imagined survivalist drama — the catch is that the room in question turns out to be the entire world, uncannily depopulated and sprawling with possibility, yet often made to feel as small as the loneliest studio apartment. Tracing the uncertain course-correction of a nowhere-bound Berlin manchild after he finds himself, suddenly and inexplicably, the last man on earth, “In My Room” presents and accepts its partial apocalypse with unquestioning calm — an extreme contrivance that merely enables an elegant, exacting character study.
It’s been seven years since Köhler’s last feature “Sleeping Sickness,...
It’s been seven years since Köhler’s last feature “Sleeping Sickness,...
- 5/19/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critics Lawrence Garcia and Daniel Kasman.Dear Danny,Expectations can indeed be thrillingly confounded. But often equally satisfying is seeing promise fulfilled, as is the case with Lee Chang-dong’s standout competition entry Burning, the South Korean director’s first film in eight years and a consensus masterpiece, if its average 3.8 rating on the Screen International jury grid (surpassing Toni Erdmann’s previous record of 3.7) is any indication. A steady follow-shot picks up Jonhsu (Yoo Ah-in), a barely-employed, aspiring writer, as he makes a delivery to a Seoul department store blowout sale, but ends up leaving with Haemi (Jun Jong-seo), a dancer who claims to have known him from his rural hometown. An uneasy tryst in a cramped apartment follows soon after, with Lee’s camera craning around the lovers to settle on a fringe of light reflected by a nearby tower.
- 5/18/2018
- MUBI
Kirsten Niehuus, managing director of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, hosted a reception in Cannes on Saturday to celebrate the inclusion in the festival lineup of several films backed by the fund.
Among those pictures being feted in the garden of the Grand Hotel were two competition entries, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro,” and Ulrich Koehler’s “In My Room” and Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” both in Un Certain Regard.
Among the producers attending the event were Benny Drechsel, Regina Ziegler, Fabian Gasmia, Stefan Arndt, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen, Martin Moszkowicz and Fabian Massah, who was selected by European Film Promotion as one of its Producers on the Move.
Also attending was South Africa’s Sibs Shongwe-la Mer, who is one of 15 filmmakers selected to take part in Cannes’ Cinefondation Workshop. Medienboard is backing his latest film, “The Sound of Animals Fighting,” through its German co-producer Rohfilm Productions.
Among those pictures being feted in the garden of the Grand Hotel were two competition entries, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Happy as Lazzaro,” and Ulrich Koehler’s “In My Room” and Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” both in Un Certain Regard.
Among the producers attending the event were Benny Drechsel, Regina Ziegler, Fabian Gasmia, Stefan Arndt, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen, Martin Moszkowicz and Fabian Massah, who was selected by European Film Promotion as one of its Producers on the Move.
Also attending was South Africa’s Sibs Shongwe-la Mer, who is one of 15 filmmakers selected to take part in Cannes’ Cinefondation Workshop. Medienboard is backing his latest film, “The Sound of Animals Fighting,” through its German co-producer Rohfilm Productions.
- 5/13/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
‘In My Room’ by German director Ulrich Köhler will be celebrating its world premiere in Un Certain Regard at the 71st Festival de Cannes.In My Room — Andrea Hanke, Claudia Steffen, Actors Elena Radonicich and Hans Löw , Ulrich Köhler
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Ulrich Köhler’s feature films Bungalow (Berlinale Panorama 2002) and Windows On Monday (Berlinale Forum 2006) were shown at numerous festivals and received prizes at home and abroad. Sleeping Sickness had its world premiere in the Competition of the 2011 Berlinale and Köhler won the Silver Bear for Best Director. His new feature film, In My Room, brings him to Cannes for the first time. It centers on Armin, in his forties, a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One day everyone around him has disappeared and he isn’t sure what happened. As in his 2002 debut Bungalow,...
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Ulrich Köhler’s feature films Bungalow (Berlinale Panorama 2002) and Windows On Monday (Berlinale Forum 2006) were shown at numerous festivals and received prizes at home and abroad. Sleeping Sickness had its world premiere in the Competition of the 2011 Berlinale and Köhler won the Silver Bear for Best Director. His new feature film, In My Room, brings him to Cannes for the first time. It centers on Armin, in his forties, a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One day everyone around him has disappeared and he isn’t sure what happened. As in his 2002 debut Bungalow,...
- 4/19/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony. While we’ll have our personal favorites coming early this week, the jury and audience have responded with theirs, topped by Macon Blair‘s I don’t feel at home in this world anymore., which will arrive on Netflix in late February, and the documentary Dina. Check out the full list of winners below see our complete coverage here.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:
Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:
Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...
- 1/29/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Playwright, author, screenwriter, and director Helene Hegemann has said (through her publisher) that, “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity.” The words were spoken after her debut novel Axolotl Roadkill earned critical praise, a spot as a finalist for a major book award, and multiple, potentially damning plagiarism claims. Hegemann was seventeen when it published and admitted to the cribbing as soon as it was brought to light. She blamed her generation’s penchant for mixing and sampling, for taking what’s bouncing around the æther and making it her own with newfound honesty and meaning. Say what you will, the book sold and kept selling. This German phenom hit upon the zeitgeist with her tale of drug-addled excess and mental instability — in subject matter and process.
Considering she had a play staged at fifteen and a short film released to acclaim, it was only a matter...
Considering she had a play staged at fifteen and a short film released to acclaim, it was only a matter...
- 1/23/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Axelotl Overkill Review Axelotl Overkill (2017), Film Review from the 33rd Annual Sundance Film Festival, a movie directed by Helene Hegemann, starring Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Arly Jover, Laura Tonke, Mavie Hörbiger, Hans Löw, and Bernhard Schütz. How is it that a film can be simultaneously provocative yet entirely boring? First-time director Helene Hegemann has mastered the art in this deliberately vague […]...
- 1/21/2017
- by Drew Stelter
- Film-Book
X-Men spinoff and Trainspotting sequel to play Out of Competition.
A further 13 films have been invited to screen in the Competition and Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival has added commercial clout to its Out Of Competition lineup in the shape of Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting and X-Men spinoff Logan.
There are also competition berths for new films by Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader.
Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s latest, Viceroy’s House, will have its world premiere out of competition at the festival. Starring Hugh Bonneville alongside Gillian Anderson, the period drama set in 1947 India depicts Lord Mountbatten, the man charged with handing India back to its people.
Also having its world premiered out of competition will be Álex de la Iglesia’s The Bar, a comedy-thriller about a group of strangers who get...
A further 13 films have been invited to screen in the Competition and Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The festival has added commercial clout to its Out Of Competition lineup in the shape of Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting and X-Men spinoff Logan.
There are also competition berths for new films by Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader.
Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s latest, Viceroy’s House, will have its world premiere out of competition at the festival. Starring Hugh Bonneville alongside Gillian Anderson, the period drama set in 1947 India depicts Lord Mountbatten, the man charged with handing India back to its people.
Also having its world premiered out of competition will be Álex de la Iglesia’s The Bar, a comedy-thriller about a group of strangers who get...
- 1/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman) tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
After an initial line-up that included Aki Kaurismäki‘s The Other Side of Hope, Oren Moverman‘s Richard Gere-led The Dinner, Sally Potter‘s The Party, and Agnieszka Holland‘s Spoor, the Berlin International Film Festival have added more anticipated premieres. Highlights include one of two (maybe three) new Hong Sang-soo films this year, On the Beach at Night Alone, along with Volker Schlöndorff‘s Return to Montauk with Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss, as well as the high-profile world premiere of James Mangold‘s Logan and the international premiere of Danny Boyle‘s T2: Trainspotting.
With Paul Verhoeven serving as jury president for the 67th edition of the festival, check out the new additions below.
Competition
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)
South Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)
With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun,...
With Paul Verhoeven serving as jury president for the 67th edition of the festival, check out the new additions below.
Competition
Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)
South Korea
By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)
With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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