Lila, Lila

• Daniel Brühl: David Kern
• Hannah heart leap: Marie
• Henry Hübchen: Jacky
• Alexander Khuon: Ralph
• Godehard Giese: Tobi
• Stefan Ruppe: Rolli
• Peter Schneider: Ron
• Henriette Müller: Sabrina

Lila, Lila is a screen adaptation of the bestseller by Martin Suter from the year 2009. Directed by Alain Gsponer, the film stars Daniel Brühl, Hannah heart jump and Henry Hübchen.

Action

The shy waiter David Kern falls on anyone. One day he meets the young literature student Marie and falls into it. However, it has each of his overtures back, on the grounds that they appreciate more writers. At a flea market David buys a bedside table. When he opens the home jammed drawer, he finds the manuscript of a novel. David scans the manuscript text recognition, puts his name as an author one, prints it out and brings it new Marie the next day to read, because he hopes to impress with it. Marie is extremely enthusiastic and falls in love with David. She sent the manuscript to a publisher in secret, which is to publish the book.

This also occurs and the novel tops the bestseller lists. From another on the day David is now an acclaimed by critics author. Soon David is all the hype and especially the press too much. In addition, all of a sudden a certain Jacky, who claims to be true author of the novel appears. David can do nothing else than to make a good face on a bad game, because Jacky follows him at every turn, wants to share his success and is already planning another novel. Marie alienates itself more and more from him and eventually leaves him because she can not understand why he has not Jacky in their place. Now Jacky wants to help him regain Marie, but after an argument with David, he falls from his balcony and was gravely wounded. In the hospital, the wrestling with death Jacky reconciled with David and dies shortly thereafter. At the funeral, Jacky's sister reacts surprised when David said he was a friend of Jacky and therefore do not come because of these owe him money.

David writes a book about his alleged first work and manages thereby to regain Marie. His fans are, however, left unclear whether this story is invented, or the facts corresponds.

Production

Lila, Lila was in Berlin, Leipzig and Villa Rosenthal turned in Leipzig from 3 June to 24 July 2008. The film was produced by Movie1, Falcolm Media and Millbrook Pictures. Falcolm Media is also the rental company. The budget amounted to 3.5 million euros.

Criticism

" Realistically ironic is Gsponer to the cinematic novel written by Martin Suter, debunked pseudo-intellectual word games as pompous babble and the literary scene as a shark tank. Everyone grabs a piece of the pie, basks in the glow of the other. It celebrates and the beautiful appearance and the media play with. Publishers want fresh meat and literary women artists and no waiters. Just like in real life. Henry Hübchen shines as seedy drifter with heart-warming one- liners, his counterpart Daniel Brühl may mimic the shy scene -Darling, where the plant grows over the head. The combination of both is an absolute godsend, as well as the linking of tragicomedy, romance and theater of the absurd, the combination of great emotions and false identities. The meticulous work up to the eighth draft of the screenplay by Alexander Buresch makes itself felt in the result. The different end in the book and film should not be confused with this emotionally and fast-paced piece of cinema. "

" The cast could not be more fitting. Duration starlet Daniel Brühl has Basterds trimmed in the role of unassuming fellow who herumschlittert between appearance and reality, of Good Bye, Lenin Inglourious up to perfection. He was also the factor that four years ago, was traveling together with the Swiss director Alain Gsponer to Ibiza Martin Suter to convince themselves of the qualities of the film project -. Successfully "

" The Swiss director Alain Gsponer ( " The Real Life " ) has from the fabric of Martin Suter's novel", has created made ​​Lila, Lila " a bestseller a film that could take it to the box office. And that would have earned: Far from the usual German television aesthetics and with fantastic lead actors ( Daniel Brühl and Hannah heart jump) he tells with admirable looseness of this story of love and lies as a smart, sharp satire on the madness of the book market, but also as entirely uncynical and uncheesy romance. A pleasure. "

" Overall," Lila, Lila " but a film, how often wishes him the German cinema. He is ashamed not for a moment for it to be entertainment - makes this goal but no grim affair of state. He shrugs not scared before his Classic Film options back, but also does not reveal its integrity for that. And above all, he acts as if he had not emerged only under existential Author labor -. Rather cheerful, just so "

Awards

2011: 29 Minneapolis / St.Paul International Film Festival " Best Narrative Feature ".