Meinhard, who already has little time for the team’s after-hours bonding, opts to reach out to the locals instead, befriending village bigwig Adrian (Syuleyman Alilov Letifov) and borrowing his aforementioned steed. Winchester '73; The Gunfighter) portrayal to contemporary Europe.
Maren Ade (* 12.Dezember 1976 in Karlsruhe) ist eine deutsche Filmregisseurin, Drehbuchautorin und Filmproduzentin.Für ihren Spielfilm Toni Erdmann gewann sie den Europäischen Filmpreis 2016 und war u. a. für den Oscar und den Golden Globe nominiert.
As a producer, she worked on productions like Tabu by Miguel Gomes, Sleeping Sickness by Ulrich Köhler and Western by Valeska Grisebeach.
The film has been well received by critics. This foreign language film as a character study of a man who in his own way is going through a mid-life crisis will resonate in any language. While I didn't find myself caring about any of the players, I was mesmerized by the sheer beauty of the film. Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2018 “He’s clearly not one of the decent ones,” says one ill-acquainted resident, with spitting contempt, of Meinhard; Germans in this region, it appears, remain guilty until proven otherwise.Grisebach has an acute, intelligent ear for the micro-aggressions — some accidental, some deliberate, some not so micro — that can escalate into more heated cultural battles in this particular east-meets-west showdown, where even attempts at diplomacy are rife with opportunities for misunderstanding.
The only thing I can figure is the film is unconventional in they used non actors to play some of the characters trying to give it a more realistic feel.
One guy gets sucker punched and the end. For the record, I’m not one of those people that scoffs at subtitles. I went back and rewatched scenes to make sure I didn’t somehow miss the ‘thrills’. I love this film about a German construction crew in Bulgaria. Western .
Career Ihre Nachricht. Please try againQuickly browse titles in our catalog based on the ones you have picked. If you like watching men work some sort of construction then this is the movie for you! In 2004, Maren Ade first film, The Forest for the Trees, premiered in Toronto and won the Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. This is beautifully observed, subtle filmmakers. The film stars Meinhard Neumann in his first acting role as a German construction worker in Bulgaria who finds himself in the middle of a culture clash with the locals. “It’s a blessing when you reach 40 and your testosterone diminishes,” Meinhard observes, though not everyone is quite so accepting of such truths.Permitting all these tightly knotted tensions to reveal themselves at leisure, Grisebach keeps her filmmaking low-key and exactingly measured, resisting any startling formal coups.
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A slow-burning thriller, Western follows a group of German workers in rural Bulgaria. In 1998, she began studying film production and media management, and later film direction at the University of Television and Film (HFF) in Munich, which she successfully completed in 2004. 'Western' is a journey that I must admit I didn't really understand until I started to look at it from an individual character's standpoint. Ok spoiler alert, the only ‘things’ or thrills that happen is a horse has to be put down. The main character is a gentle soul who fits in better with the Bulgarians than with his fellow Germans.
The newest and least gregarious member in a team of German construction men, sent to a remote green patch of rural Bulgaria to build a modern water power plant, he’s an able, aloof worker less fazed than his colleagues about resistance from the local villagers — as a former legionnaire, with service in Afghanistan and Africa under his belt, this job presents no particular hardship to him. Can they learn to trust each other- or is the stage being set for a showdown?
The modern relationship drama was released in over 25 countries and received three nominations for the German Film Award. Maren Ade may be among the film’s producers, though even if she weren’t, “Western” would make an illuminating companion piece to Ade’s 2016 Cannes sensation “Toni Erdmann.” Without advertising itself as such, “Western” could be viewed as a wry reflection of the European Union’s sometimes fractious present-day state — though much of its character conflict hinges on a more universal fear of the other.In the case of chief cowboy figure Meinhard, he’s regarded with equally distrustful curiosity by foreigners and compatriots alike. When they’re not huffily trying to outrank each other, the Germans are shown in almost comically idyllic repose, even washing each other’s hair in the orange sunset.
I actually love foreign films, but this one was terrible. I also fell in the rotten tomatoes trap.
Heading up a compelling cast of non-professionals — drawn largely from the blue-collar sector shared by their characters — Neumann plays Meinhard with the tough, taciturn poise of cinema’s calmest gunslingers.He stands in notable contrast to Vincent (Reinhardt Wetrek), the team’s boorish, short-fused foreman, who swiftly raises hackles among the Bulgarians by planting a German flag above the site and harassing women at the local swimming river.