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Der lange Sommer der Theorie

Three young woman, Nola, Katya, and Martina, have made it their mission to search for happiness. Irene von Albertis film floats between feminist discourse-pop and a journalistic report.

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“Our goals are short-term. Our main mission is to make ourselves happy.“ That is Nola, Katja, and Martina‘s motto. The young women live in a flatshare in a run-down house, somewhere between the glass palaces and luxury apartments in new Berlin Mitte. The friends agitate against the impending gentrification and the shift to the right; a philosophical search for meaning is at the center of their lives – and the film. What can be done against the maddening standstill and the lack of theories in high-performance capitalism? DER LANGE SOMMER DER THEORIE is very reminiscent of Godard‘s political 1968 films: the formalistic, clearly dramatised dialogues, well-dressed, eloquent figures, and the courage to break the cinematic illusion are attempts to break through the dominant viewing experience and to dismantle the film as a marketable and appealing product. Irene von Alberti revitalizes the film‘s subject: individuality and the lack of relationships and bonds are portrayed in sometimes essayist, sometimes documentary-like ways, but are always theoretically substantial. Which works very well. Intellectual names like Carl hegemann, Philipp Felsch, and Rahel Jaeggi also make statements, which make the film seem quite academic. A bit of self-irony would‘ve been a more snazzy stylistic device. But that wouldn‘t be possible with Godard either. Art historian Boris Groys says it well in the end: “you are a revolutionary, when you feel like you‘re in a film in real life.“ Irene von Albertis film is an unusually, formalistically fresh appeal to the beauty of thinking.

Johannes Bluth

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Deutschland 2017, 82 min
Genre: Drama
Director: Irene von Alberti
Author: Irene von Alberti
DOP: Jenny Lou Ziegel
Montage: Silke Botsch
Music: Toni Kater
Distributor: Filmgalerie 451 / Grandfilm
Cast: Martina Schöne-Radunski, Julia Zange, Katja Weilandt, Timo Jacobs
FSK: oA
Release: 23.11.2017

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Screenings

  • OV Original version
  • OmU Original with German subtitles
  • OmeU Original with English subtitles

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