{"id":609198,"date":"2024-02-18T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-hesitant-german-comedy-drama-about-death\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:30:00","slug":"watch-a-hesitant-german-comedy-drama-about-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-hesitant-german-comedy-drama-about-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Hesitant German Comedy-Drama About Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25838502f64\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25838502f64\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-hesitant-german-comedy-drama-about-death\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Hesitant_German_Comedy-Drama_About_Death%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Hesitant German Comedy-Drama About Death&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-hesitant-german-comedy-drama-about-death\/#%E2%80%9CA_Hesitant_German_Comedy-Drama_About_Death%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Hesitant German Comedy-Drama About Death&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Hesitant_German_Comedy-Drama_About_Death%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Hesitant German Comedy-Drama About Death&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Hesitant_German_Comedy-Drama_About_Death%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Hesitant German Comedy-Drama About Death&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Over three hours and five different chapters, Matthias Glasner\u2019s \u201cDying\u201d chronicles the travails of an estranged family of four: an elderly couple on the brink of death, their successful composer son and their alcoholic, ne\u2019er-do-well daughter. The film casts a wide net over their experiences, and every leading performance is as impeccable as the last. However, Glasner\u2019s formal rigidity prevents their stories from feeling intrinsically bound, leaving each of them with little to say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The film opens in the German countryside with elderly couple Lissy (Corinna Harfouch) and Gerd Lunies (Hans-Uwe Bauer) being found helpless by a neighbor. Lissy\u2019s litany of ailments render her only semi-mobile, and she often ends the day by soiling herself, while Gerd\u2019s dementia leads him to wander naked into people\u2019s homes. They can\u2019t help each other, and their adult children are too preoccupied with their own metropolitan lives to get involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    While the premise verges on misery \u201cmisery porn\u201d (other works about helpless older couples like Michael Haneke\u2019s \u201cAmour\u201d and Gaspar No\u00e9\u2019s \u201cVortex\u201d come to mind), Glasner takes a wry and frank <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to these indignities. He frames them not only as inevitable, but familiar \u2014 for instance, Lissy\u2019s intense embarrassment and her rankled responses to well-meaning helping hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As Lissy wrestles with placing Gerd in an assisted living facility, \u201cDying\u201d comes achingly close to probing the fears of death (and of dying alone) that keep hovering in its margins. However, once it switches focus to their middle-aged son Tom (Lars Eidinger), the movie\u2019s foundation begins to rattle. Tom, the pseudo-stepfather to his ex\u2019s baby with another man, is deep in the process of perfecting an orchestral piece called \u201cSterben\u201d (\u201cDying\u201d) written by his old friend and uneasy collaborator Bernard (Robert Gwisdek), though his young musicians don\u2019t seem to grasp its nuances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The musicians\u2019 conversations and debates on death lead to new ways of expressing and performing, but in these moments, the film\u2019s self-reflexivity begins to stagnate, as Glasner and cinematographer Jakub Bejnarowicz seldom match this sense of artistic transformation with visual evolution of their own. To quote a critic of Tom\u2019s orchestral conducting in the film, \u201cThe whole thing is a huge banality.\u201d This particular criticism appears late in the film as a bit of tongue-in-cheek lamp shading, as though the movie were protecting itself, but this instinct towards self-preservation is part of its problem. \u201cDying\u201d is often too safe and too hermetically sealed to make a real emotional impact, despite the caliber of performances at play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As Gerd, Bauer shuffles confusedly between hallways and embodies a tragically lonely physicality, one which seems to be reaching out for recognition or understanding. Just as tragic as his loss of understanding is the way his eyes briefly light up when Tom makes a fleeting visit, affording Eidinger the chance to embody a burdened stillness, as though he were at a loss for answers. His dynamic with Harfouch is just as alluring, not only as a brilliant stroke of casting (Tom and Lissy look like mirror images of one another), but as a doorway to some hilariously bizarre discomforts, as the looming specter of mortality gives way to frankness and admissions of regret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    However, Glasner\u2019s stilted visual approach unfortunately goes hand-in-hand with stilted writing. The dialogue is often snappy (Harfouch in particular delivers it with a sharp tongue), but the moments where \u201cDying\u201d is able to convey a sense of lived history between the characters are few and far between. In the process, spoken words become the movie\u2019s crutch, especially when the fourth key family member is introduced: Tom\u2019s sister Ellen (Lilith Stangenberg), an amateur singer and wayward dental assistant having an affair with her employer, Sebastian (Ronald Zehrfeld).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On its face, the booze-soaked romance between the two is perhaps the closest the movie comes to feeling emotionally vibrant or aesthetically affecting \u2014 the camera matches the actors\u2019 mood, their movement and their energy \u2014 but the lack of meaningful connection between Ellen and her family is something the movie isn\u2019t able to fully convey or deftly dramatize. Stangenberg is immensely committed, as a young woman lost down a hole of her addiction and isolation, but she belongs to a different movie entirely, with its own distinct rhythms. Rather than matching the pitch of the other chapters, the film\u2019s Ellen segments are little more than an appendix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    These disparate chapters are lightly connected by feelings of isolation and fears of never finding closure or reconciliation. However, to imbue the story as a whole with these feelings \u2014 absent any sort of challenge, subversion or rumination \u2014 leaves it vulnerable to the very criticisms of banality that seem to be on Glasner\u2019s mind and on the tip of the movie\u2019s tongue. If there\u2019s any reflection or revelation to be found, it\u2019s that the connective tissue between various threads involves phone calls that read differently once the film revisits them from another character\u2019s point of view. But beyond this minor trick of perspective, there\u2019s little that\u2019s truly cinematic about \u201cDying,\u201d a film of remarkable performance and subject matter, laid low by unremarkable filmmaking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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