2024-08-30 11:19:01
The merciless west of Apulia makes it clear in the new divorce comedy “Alles Fifty Fifty”: As a German, you don’t have much to laugh about anymore, especially when Laura Tonke and Moritz Bleibtreu try so hard to be funny.
There is a theory that the best way to deal with your trauma is to laugh at it. In “Harry Potter,” for example, there is a creature called a Boggart who often takes the form of the most feared human. It could be the mother-in-law, the boss or Björn Höcke. And he waved his magic wand, shouted “Riddikulus”, the pagert looked completely ridiculous, he laughed, the pagert was gone.
The work of this curse (those among us who are educated in ancient languages know where Riddikulus is from science) can certainly find humor in fearful times like ours. As the moments of greatest distress are often the moments of greatest comedy. So you have to imagine the film directors as magicians who stand in front of the present and shake things around a bit: everyone laughs, everyone is better.
The scene of a life guard, for example, would not be the worst for a film director. He sat and thought about what he saw. From above and from outside. And he laughs his head off at the problems everyone has as they splash in the pool or fight each other on the beach chairs. Alireza Golafashan, born in Tehran in 1986, came to Germany at the age of twelve, maybe a kind of hope for the struggling German comedy scene because he looks at the German current from the point of view of this life guard. The only question is what you get out of it.
“Everything fifty” is the name of Golafshan’s third film. And somehow in exile Greek life that makes you talk about Apulia in the sparkling lake is called Paris. This is a kind of academic hubris similar to the monstrous plaster busts that line resort entrances, intended to convey a story to the wealthy flats that can afford to rent. He immediately wanted to pull his magic wand out of the cinema. But it could be better. Because otherwise you won’t be able to get out of the fight.
We saw the castle of the SUV
“Everything fifty” is the story of Milan. It is eleven. His parents are Andi and Marion. And he is a lawyer in Munich. He drives – as the Munich lawyers are a powerful SUV, he drives a yellow sports car. They have abandoned them. You don’t want to get stuck in an elevator with them, and you don’t want to run into them in a parent evening either. However, every parent in Berlin without exception will send their child to school – dust-free streets, germ-free toilets – where Marion and Andi point out because Milan behaves again.
Milan makes a ruthless use of the different educational programs of his shared parents (he, as a highly neurotic skeptic, has read all the educational advisors, he gives everything a long leash). The young blasé is preparing for a job as FDP president.
It didn’t take fifteen minutes before he ate with Andi and Marion and Milan who didn’t even want to know what Golafshan was doing with them in Apulia, where the three were going, with Robin, Marion’s. The borderline crazy personal trainer, with whom they share their bed, is going on vacation because they can’t get their schedules to overlap without an accident.
It is suspected that he will do something with these characters, who have a lot to do with the fact that the life of 90 percent of all divorces as Munich-Grünwald has with Berlin-Hellersdorf. And this wheel of Thespis roaring straight ahead (caution: academic hubris) is, in contrast to the anarchy that is the basis of all true comedy, just a family move that really restores.
You can’t say that Golafshan doesn’t have funny conversations with a jigsaw in his screenwriting basement. He has screwball abilities (even if they’re incredibly predictable like the rest of the drama). You can’t say that Moritz Bleibtreu (Andi) and Laura Tonke (Marion) and even the completely stupid David Kross (Robin) don’t have a lot of influence to tell these dialogues in a funny way.
But in the end you sit there and you don’t know why you sit there and what this story full of life wisdom from the life guide online store should tell you, other than that the future presidents of the FDP still have their problems and they can still become human if they are lucky. However, he wanted to go to Puglia. Into this light, under this sun. Dream.
“Everything fifty” is in the movie.
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