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Cinema drama “My Son” with Anke Engelke and Jonas Dassler: How far can parenting love go?

2021-11-17T15:39:39.446Z


Lena Stahl's film drama "My Son" is great cinema: Anke Engelke and Jonas Dassler shine in it as mother and son. The son tries to cut the cord from his mom - but it's not easy for either of them. Our cinema review.


Lena Stahl's film drama "My Son" is great cinema: Anke Engelke and Jonas Dassler shine in it as mother and son.

The son tries to cut the cord from his mom - but it's not easy for either of them.

Our cinema review.

Finally.

Finally she makes him cry.

Without saying: “Everything will be fine, mom will take care of it.” Perhaps at that moment Marlene (Anke Engelke) understood that her son has grown up and that she is no longer responsible for drying all his tears.

That he can do it himself.

Must be able to.

It is a particularly strong scene towards the end of this true story that director and screenwriter Lena Stahl tells in “My Son”.

The drama is autobiographical, says the 42-year-old.

That's probably why this double road trip feels so intense and real.

The two protagonists - Marlene and her son Jason (Jonas Dassler) - are not just driving to a rehab clinic in Switzerland after the boy's skate accident, the actual journey happens in their hearts and minds.

There are no clean asphalt motorways, but a lot of mined terrain, some breakdowns and one-way streets again and again.

"My son" tells in a touching way of a mother-child relationship that is not that easy

"We are not all parents, but we are all 'children of'", Engelke said in an interview with our newspaper before the cinema release.

In fact, you don't have to be a mother or a father yourself to empathize with this - sorry!

- Pukes from son and the happy mother.

This is how they work at the beginning.

But it quickly becomes clear why Jason treats everyone else with his roguish charm and why Marlene is often downright cold-hearted.

The more she clings, the louder he yells at her and the world: “This is my life!

I belong only to me!"

Jonas Dassler's game is brilliant

The way Jonas Dassler plays it is once again brilliant.

He hits every nuance of this torn character exactly.

Most of the time Jason gives the carefree Buddy for the whole world, overflowing with joie de vivre.

But if nobody looks, then the helpless Jason appears.

Then he realizes that adulthood is not that easy after all when you have to behave like an adult.

And get along alone.

He would so much like to be independent - but fails because of his carelessness, which he owes to the care of his mother of all things.

“My son” skillfully oscillates between fun and seriousness

What happy love can do, what happens to a woman who gives up her own dreams for her child, how much one is responsible for someone else and what kind of love and affection, including thanks, can be expected from this someone describes the film sensitively. And, how could it be otherwise with the gifted comedian Anke Engelke, always with humor. It's wonderful when Jason puts on music in the car and Marlene doesn't come along: “What are they singing? Is that English? ”When he switches to an innocent lamb who is ensnaring his mother and they laugh with all their hearts. Then again the despair of each other. But always noticeable: the deep bond.

We don't know the history of the two.

But it must have dark chapters within itself, the absent father is one of them.

The looks Engelke and Dassler exchange, the mother's cautious approach, always worrying about being rejected.

All of this is not always easy to look at from an outside perspective, but it is worth it.

Because we all know what it feels like from the inside perspective.

With or without your own children.

Big cinema.

“My son” with Anke Engelke, Jonas Dassler.

Director: Lena Stahl.

In the cinema from November 18, 2021.

You can read our interview with Anke Engelke about the film here

Source: merkur

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