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Scene from "Gaza mon amour": no drama, but lacony
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Gaza mon amour
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When the power goes down again, people simply light candles and check the battery level of their smartphones. These are well-rehearsed reflexes, because there are constant blackouts in the Gaza Strip. The love story "Gaza mon amour" (release: July 22nd) tells of the harsh living conditions in the Palestinian Territory. They master the characters with a mixture of melancholy and absurdity. The twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, who were born in Gaza but now live in the south of France, shot a film as touching as it is bizarre - in a refugee camp in Jordan. In the Gaza Strip itself, this would have been very difficult, perhaps even impossible, says Tarzan Nasser in an interview. He and his brother talk about 60-year-old Issa (Salim Dau),who leads a quiet and lonely life as a simple fisherman and casts his nets in the coastal waters at night. Suddenly he has a flash of inspiration: He wants to marry the seamstress Siham (Hiam Abbas), whom he adores from afar and who has no idea of his plans. "Gaza mon amour" describes the rapprochement between the two with great delicacy. You have to have a little patience, because everything develops without hurry. Instead of dramatizing, the brothers rely on lacony. In doing so, they have succeeded in making a life-affirming film that lets the viewer participate in how two people can find each other against all odds."Gaza mon amour" describes the rapprochement between the two with great delicacy. You have to have a little patience, because everything develops without hurry. Instead of dramatizing, the brothers rely on lacony. In doing so, they have succeeded in making a life-affirming film that lets the viewer participate in how two people can find each other against all odds."Gaza mon amour" describes the rapprochement between the two with great delicacy. You have to have a little patience, because everything develops without haste. Instead of dramatizing, the brothers rely on lacony. In doing so, they have succeeded in making a life-affirming film that lets the viewer participate in how two people can find each other against all odds.
Lars-Olav Beier
New literature: "What is wrong with you" by Sigrid Nunez
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Sigrid Nunez
What's wrong with you: Roman
Translated by: Anette Grube
Publisher: Aufbau Verlag
Number of pages: 222
Translated by: Anette Grube
Publisher: Aufbau Verlag
Number of pages: 222
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Sigrid Nunez's award-winning novel »Der Freund« from 2018 was about processing, understanding and accepting the unexpected death of a loved one. Her new book, "What is missing," has a different perspective: the first-person narrator accompanies a friend with cancer until her death, a service of love that arouses mixed feelings and takes a lot of strength. But first the author leaves a kaleidoscope of impressions and experiences, which at first glance do not all seem to have to do with the core story. It's about the big questions of being human, about friendship, loneliness, love, old age. Because the American is a gifted writer, her book is sometimes even cheerful in all its seriousness. As matter-of-factly and calmly as she negotiates these very big issues,she does it so emphatically and lovingly. Dealing with your own mortality is exhausting, yes. But also enriching with this book.
Katharina Stegelmann
New concerts: Alpine sounds from the skyscraper
A drum quartet, 16 alphorns, 9 trumpets and 4 tubas are to be used at the concert happening, which is scheduled for Saturday (July 17th) on the roofs of Hamburg's skyscrapers. “Heaven over Hamburg” is the name of the project for which the Elbphilharmonie and the Kampnagel cultural center, which is otherwise primarily responsible for progressive stage art, have teamed up - together they let the musicians of the Dresden Symphony Orchestra get to work on the roofs of the Lenzsiedlung in the Eimsbüttel district. The unusual concert starts on Saturday evening with the fanfare composed by the American John Williams for the opening of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. This is followed, among other things, by a work by the 43-year-old Munich composer Markus Lehmann-Horn.The whole high-rise estate will be transformed into an open-air concert hall, enthuses Kampnagel director Amelie Deuflhard, who calls the joke of the happening: "Soundscapes that we associate with the mountains are suddenly created in the middle of the big city."
Wolfgang Höbel
