The Future (Film)

The Future ( German for "The Future ") is a feature film by American artist and writer Miranda July from the year 2011. Tragicomedy based on an original screenplay by the director. At the same time, she took the lead female role alongside Hamish Linklater. The film is about a pair of mid-thirties, which shall receive a sick cat and then crashing into a meaning and relationship crisis.

The film premiered at the U.S. Festival Sundance Film on January 21, 2011. In Germany, The Future was first shown on 15 February 2011 at the 61st International Film Festival of Berlin, where the film is represented in the competition for the Golden Bear. July's directorial work is dedicated to the amateur actors who died in 2010 Joe Putterlik.

Action

The Cat Paw Paw (German: " paws " ) sits in the shelter of Los Angeles. Although she misses claims to the free life in the wild, but it has also already made friends with the idea of being adopted by Sophie and Jason. The couple, mid-thirties, is to bring the cat in a month, as soon as a paw injury is over. Paw Paw is in need of medical care from there on a daily basis.

Sophie and Jason anticipate having to bear the responsibility for the critically ill animal only a few months. But when they learn that Paw Paw could live with good care up to five years, both begin to rethink their lives up to the collection of the animal in 30 days new and remodel. Both announce about their hated jobs and can block Internet access.

Sophie, a professional dance teacher for children, a work colleague is planning to emulate and under the motto " 30 days - 30 dances " to create every day a new dance video of the video sharing website YouTube. Unsettled by her exaggerated artificial style of dance and the other videos, more attractive dancers, her project fails but in the bud. By chance she gets to the phone number of the older signage and poster Marshall entrepreneur, the Jason had bought out of pity at the shelter, a self- drawn portrait of his little daughter. With the well-off, single father she begins an affair. Their attempts Marshalls little daughter Isabella to win for themselves, are moderately successful. At the same time it is then followed by a creepy- old T -shirt, with which it unites one night and Marshalls amazement lists an artificial dance.

Jason, who worked for a computer hotline, meanwhile, joins a local environmental project. Without much success, he tried to sell door-to- door tree sponsorships for the salvation of the Earth's atmosphere. By chance, he is attention to a sale display for an old hair dryer and learns to know the aged Joe. The hobby tinkerers has been happily married for 60 years and still surprises his wife with indecent limericks. At the same time he gives us to understand Jason, that its four-year relationship with Sophie yet stand at the beginning and this phase is very difficult.

One night, Sophie tries Jason to confess their affair. Little does he know what she wants to tell him and make it with a touch of her head to stop time. He leads in this time loop dialogues with the moon and can only put on the beach in Los Angeles, the persisting waves and the rest of life going again. Until then, have passed more than thirty days and Jason and Sophie must independently determine that Paw Paw was euthanized as scheduled from the animal shelter. At the same time their relationship is at the end and Sophie only spends one night with Jason in the common room apartment to pack her things.

Genesis

The film is a German -American co-production. The German producer Roman Paul had in 2005 with Miranda July made ​​contact, then. Than buyers of their first work I and you and everyone we know for the Japanese broadcaster NHK July had been honored with 18 international film and festival awards, including the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Caméra d'Or of the Cannes Film Festival. However, further directed Offers and screenplays she refused. "I 'm not the next young director in Hollywood. The actual movie business is terrible, "said the director, who then devoted himself to art and book projects.

The preparations for The Future fell in the middle of the financial crisis, which is why all American private sponsors bailed. The contact with Roman Paul had remained intact. About July's husband, who was in Berlin, he and his partner Gerhard Meixner attention to the script for The Future. Both produced the film with their Founded in 2002, Razor Film Produktion GmbH. For the filming has been passed to a participation of German film technicians, which is why Nikolai Graevenitz took over the camera work. The rotation took a total of 21 days. The production cost is estimated at eight million dollars.

Director and screenwriter Miranda July had determined from the outset that they would take over the female lead, although she identified more with the role of Jason, " who has a lot of faith who is curious, who expects a good day ." Several well-known actors would have lost then her interest in the male figure. For the male lead finally Hamish Linklater was committed, which is known primarily for his role in the 2010 set CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine in the USA. Linklater described the casting process as a "long, arduous, painful and ultimately profitable ." He sent her next video clip chapter of his unpublished biography and a " huge, exuberant love letter ". When working with July he felt in " very safe hands ." Working with a director / actor but could also be unnerving. " It's complicated, because you wonder if you view it through the eyes of the character or with the eyes of the person who thinks about how that will cut together. " Says Linklater. July was a good scene partner and it was very easy to play in and out of their rhythm.

According to Miranda July, it was not easy to talk about love and desire for a new way, because we are very used to it in the same way to raise questions and feel. Therefore, they have added the figure of the cat as a narrator. I had to " find a way to love and also to bring the feeling of loss on a new way to position also new to me, so I can tell about it. " Said July. After a lively cat is seen briefly at the beginning of the film, this is mimicked by two oversized front paws in the course. With the adjusted Miranda July's voice keeps them on the off several short melancholy monologues.

Reviews

After the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival said the American industry publication Daily Variety, a " fearless realization " Miranda Julys, the ingenious ways would find, " to provide absurdities of life for show" which, even though they risked some viewers with their " cute ideas " alienating. The ostensible cheerfulness stand a much sadder core deep in the film opposite that'll exacerbated by Jon Brion's soundtrack. It was " weird " that it was this feeling chosen by July, with the moviegoers leave the film. Like watching the Los Angeles Times. The Future would fit into the larger context of Julys work, but could scare connoisseur of Me and you and everyone we know. While her first film would have relied on a large ensemble cast and a naive optimism, The Future Concerning operative over a few figures and is " darker and emotionally sensitive ." The elements that would make the film unique ( the cat as a narrator, the complex, science-fiction -like time loop structure and dancing leading lady ) could be a challenge for potential film buyers and the public.

After the premiere of The Future in competition at the Berlinale, the German -language film criticism was mostly done by July's work as a director. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung remarked that it would be " in the easiest way, with lots of humor and a few scenes that are part of the most beautiful that the cinema has " been thinking about the finite nature of all things. The film was " playful ", " live happily and wisely ," only the beautiful simulated Cat interludes would " put out". The Süddeutsche Zeitung peer reviewed The Future as one of the " highlights of the competition", and also remarked by a flighty and comical beginning, the earth's gravity of the film. "The better you get to know the two, the clearer it becomes that their egocentric carelessness is not cute - it is cruel and cold, Sophie and Jason are full of emotions, but their emotions are fleeting. Here it is again not that the rest of the world wants our freedoms -. , But about what we actually do with our freedom, "the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

The Future circuits to a whole complex of issues, so the daily newspaper. "It's about models of artistic truthfulness to internal and external images to a fear of failure and the connection between inner and outer world in the age of virtuality. And it's about the relativity of time. " Miranda July first presented it with " originality and serenity ", which the film " so special " do. The Future would be " supported by a mild summer breeze ", behind which there is " always the big existential questions " einstellten. Der Tagesspiegel spoke of a " wonderfully light-handed second feature film " about the last-minute panic of the mid-thirties, the Frankfurter Rundschau of a " charming thoughtful [n ] Love Stories ".

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