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2021-02-13T11:49:10.836Z


The musician Sia fails with her film debut on all levels. The Netflix thriller »Red Dot« lures you into abysmal terrain. And Arte is showing masterpieces by the late screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière.


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»Music«: You can't talk about autism in such a sub-complex way anymore

Photo: Merrick Morton / Alamode Film

»Music«, various providers

Those were the days when Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar for portraying an autistic character in "Rain Man" - and director Barry Levinson's stirring piece was also recognized for best film, best director and best screenplay.

That was 32 years ago.

The times have changed.

You don't like to compare "Rain Man" and "Music", the directorial debut of pop star Sia, because the height of the fall is too great.

Unfortunately, you have to, because the story is basically the same: Crazy Luftikus (Tom Cruise) suddenly has to take care of his autistic brother and grows as a person, learns to love himself and others.

In the film by the Australian musician Sia Furler ("Chandelier"), the criminal, alcoholic Zu (Kate Hudson) is overwhelmed with her autistic sister Music (Maddie Ziegler) - and actually the whole time it's about her fight with herself and her hesitant Romance with the neighbor Ebo ("Hamilton" star Leslie Odom Jr.), who has to carry his own emotional package.

Music, the girl, is becoming more and more of a mere dramaturgy assistant, but is allowed to dance through colorful music video clips in imaginative costumes, because "Music", the film, is also a visual vehicle for the new album of the same name by Sia, half drama , half musical.

About a girl with autism, but actually not either.

But you can no longer do it that sub-complex today.

When Sia announced her protégée, the young dancer Maddie Ziegler, as the leading actress in her film, who had already acted as her alter ego in numerous video clips of the singer, there were protests on social media: Why does a neurotypical person have to laboriously deal with tics and behaviors train autistic people when an autistic actor might as well take over the part?

In her film, Sia also shows a controversial method for calming autistic people and is generally not interested in autism, so the allegation.

The musician, who claims to have researched for a long time, resisted, the dispute escalated.

In the meantime there is even a petition calling for the cancellation of the two (quite amazing) Golden Globes nominations for »Music«.

In the case of the “Rotten Tomatoes” cinema taste buds, the film was rated at 25 percent.

That should not only have something to do with this controversy, but above all with the fact that, despite Ziegler's brave performance, the film not only fails on the subject of autism, but also remains shockingly conventional and predictable on all other levels.

Even Sia's songs, actually a guarantee for power, drama and euphoria, seem flat and out of place, you have to do that first.

Only the intense Hudson and the eternally serious Odom Jr. save with their game what can be saved.

Maybe Sia, who spent four years completing it, should have just focused her film on these two characters, without any "music" at all.

Andreas Borcholte (for a fee to borrow or buy, for example on Amazon, Google Play, freenet Video)

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»Red Dot«: For David and Nadja, an excursion into the wilderness turns into a gauntlet

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"Red Dot," Netflix

After a year of marriage, David and Nadja are no longer doing so.

So the Stockholmers decide to give the coexistence in nature a new kick with a hike through the wintry fells including an adventure night in a tent.

And because this is a survival thriller, the eponymous red dot soon emerges from the telescopic sight of a sniper rifle and drives the two of them through the ice-cold landscape.

In the first half hour, »Red Dot«, the first Netflix film production from Sweden, is still quite formulaic.

But only to end up in abysmal terrain all the more surprising.

Just this much: it is by no means as nice as the young picture book couple initially appears.

Oliver Kaever

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"Lover for a day": Gilles would like to know where his daughter Jeanne wants to go with her life

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"Lovers for a day," Arte media library

Jean-Claude Carrière, one of the greatest screenwriters that cinema has produced, died last Tuesday.

His collaborations with Luis Buñuel ("Belle du jour", "The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie") made him famous, followed by films with Godard, Forman and Schlöndorff.

One of the most beautiful collaborations, however, has only recently come about: with Carrière, born in 1931, and Philippe Garrel, born in 1948, two were found who have created films of inspiring openness and a desire to explore in every age.

Three films were made in this way up to Carrière's death, two of which are currently freely available in the Arte media library.

"In the shadow of women" from 2014 ironically ironizes how male intellectuals sometimes hide very old dominance behavior behind their artistic sensitivity.

On the other hand, »Lover for a Day« from 2017 dares to weigh the emotional depth of a long-term relationship against the explosive passion of a short affair without any moral bias.

Two films that do not gloss over any of the human contradictions, but they do justice to them wonderfully by looking carefully and without prejudice.

Hannah Pilarczyk

And to the current »crime scene« please go this way.

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Source: spiegel

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