This Very Moment

  • Sophie Charlotte Conrad Lea Mattis
  • Leo Bruckmann Konstantin Mattis
  • Judith Engel: Silvia Mattis
  • Horst -Günter Marx: Joseph Mattis
  • Miroslaw Baka: Cuba Lubinski

Milk Wood is a German film director Christoph Hochhäusler from the year 2003. This film is Hochhäusler movie debut and his final project at the University of Television and Film Munich. Milk Wood is the spark for the eruption of the film aesthetic of the Berlin School.

Action

Sylvia Mattis running her stepchildren Lea and Konstantin through a summer landscape near the German -Polish border. They bicker all a little, and as the children annoy the stepmother, she lets them get off at the field edge and drive a little further alone. When she comes back again to invite the children back, they are gone. They have made themselves alone on the way home.

Back in newly built home conceals Sylvia and her husband Joseph, the disappearance of the children. He learns it only by a call from a teacher who missed the kids. Joseph called the police for kidnapping. Sylvia does not take action, and lie to her husband by leaving him in the dark about the disappearance of the children - for fear of losing her husband's love.

Lea and Konstantin run through the darkening forest and hit the poles Cuba Lubinski, eating dinner in front of his van. He takes with the children and unsuccessfully attempted to call their parents. Sylvia takes a large amount of tablets and holds a letter to her husband ready. Lubinski taking children eigentlicham next day to the police, he learns from the news that 10,000 euro reward on the two missing children are exposed. Lubinski calls this time successfully with the Father Josef on who sees confirmed his suspicion of kidnapping. It was agreed a meeting in Poland to transfer money to the exclusion of the police.

Sylvia comes back to him and travels with her husband to Poland. Lea and Konstantin are now run away, Lubinski still wants to meet with parents and collect the 10,000 euros. The children try their means to orient themselves and to come home, but fail and lose sight of each other. Lubinksi find Lea in a church again, and soon after Constantine.

Lea is Lubinski very leery. It fills during the Continuation corrosive toilet cleaner in Lubinskis thermos. Lubinski drinks of it increased and stops the car with a screeching halt. When he can speak again, he dismisses the children. Then run alone and lost the summer country road.

Stylistic Features

Milk Wood is a road movie and a variation of the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel. In contrast to the fairy tale, the children are not only sweet and innocent and overwhelmed the stepmother not only evil but rather. Especially Lea 's very confident and assertive strong. The film, however, is not a fairy tale but thoroughly realistic. As a viewer you expect speedy rescue the children, they come only from an unhappy situation to the next. The disappointment over the lack of permanent happy ending leaves trepidation. This is supported by the experimental music Benjamin slate.

On a sub-level, the relationship between Germany and Poland in the post-socialist era is discussed allegorical. The idyllic landscapes are precarious situation and lostness of children and parents in stark contrast.

The camera stays on the whole movie away at a distance, there are no close-ups, it will remain static without zoom, pan or ride. There are few cuts in the film. The dialogues are scarce.

Reviews

Milk Wood and the film Marseille by Angela Schanelec came in the years 2003 and 2004 French film critics a very positive response, which then the nouvelle vague allemande exclaimed. Milchwald reached the first film of the Berlin school of international attention, while the German public ignored this work.

"Among the young German auteurs that are noticed during the Berlinale, Christoph Hochhäusler is without a doubt the most promising. " ( Télérama )

"The best German film of the Berlinale. " (Le Monde)

Awards and Festivals

  • 2003 Berlinale, International Forum of New Cinema
  • Cologne screening: spectrum of young film
  • International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal 2003 competition
  • Vancouver International Film Festival
  • Chicago International Film Festival
  • Max Festival in Hong Kong
  • Festival of German Films Paris
  • Sithengi Film Festival ( Cape Town )
  • Film Festival Mannheim / Heidelberg
  • Boston Independent Film Festival
  • Berlin & Beyond San Francisco
2003 in film Screenplay Benjamin Heisenberg Film score Mirosław Baka Berlin School (films)
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