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| Vacation | |||
"European cinema has never had a shortage of films about 30-something folk suffering marriage crisis as a result of infidelity; nor has the continent suffered much of a dearth of character-based dramas in which family-members congregate in rural locales, there to explore their feelings about each other and shed light on long-dormant enmities and passions. So it’s testament to writer-director Arslan that Vacation, which stands at the intersection of these two well-worn, Bergman-ish sub-genres, should feel so fresh and absorbing. The key to the film is the way Arslan moves between various stories as they near-simultaneously unfold, following a pair of inquisitive children in one scene, moving to the painful travails of their parents in the next, then spending time on the laconic puppy-love of a teenage couple, and so on. It’s a multi-generational approach that seems to find interest in each of the generations, while also taking care to explore the buildings and countryside around them. Slow-burning and low-key, with moments of slyly deadpan humour among the prevailing seriousness (even the Aldrich-esque belated arrival of the opening titles may raise a smile or two) this is a finely calibrated, resonant work which confirms Arslan as yet another talent to watch in a strong generation of youngish German film-makers." – Neil Young, Jigsaw Lounge Presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. |
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| Ferien, Germany 2007 | |||
Director/Producer/Screenplay: Thomas Arslan With: Angela Winkler (Anna), Karoline Eichhorn (Laura), Uwe Bohm (Paul), Gudrun Ritter (Anna’s mother), Anja Schneider (Sophie), Wigand Witting (Robert), Amir Hadzic (Max), Babette Semmer (Zoe), Leyla Bobaj (Leyla), Aaron Raabe (Aaron), Maria Hengee (woman at the lake), Jakob Bieber, Paul Preuss, Helge Niesytka (teenagers) 91 mins, 35mm (1,85:1) In German, with English subtitles M offensive language Tauranga Film Society |
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