Silver bear film for the best screenplay at the Berlin Festival, it is like a symphony in several acts. A flow of life, between incront and immobile conflict for years
A disintegrated family, who passes through death and life, also there in a disunited manner, is the protagonist of The score of lifefeature film from 11 September to the cinema distributed by Satine Film.
The direction of German Matthias Glasnerwho also wrote the film, observes with a naturalist and very personal gaze in a symphony in several acts that is now composed with austerity, now with an almost empathetic calmness that also has rare humor stables.
Silver bear for the best screenplay at the Berlin 2024 festival, despite the “worrying” duration of 3 hours The score of life Incede like an enveloping flow without ever retreating, without yawns.
The plot de The score of life
The Lunies protagonists of the film, in truth, have been no longer a family for some time. We discover it slowly, while the five chapters develop.
Lissy parents (Corinna Harfouch) and Gerd (Hans-Uwe Bauer), who live in a town in the north of Germany, are in a critical phase. He, suffering from dementia, escapes the control of her, who begins to show signs of physical and emotional fragility.
And then there is Tom (Lars Eidinger), the eldest son, on which the room stops more. He is conductor in Berlin and is working on an original song for orchestra and choir written by his friend Bernard (Robert Gwisdek) which, constantly irritated and depressed, interferes continuously during the tests. The title of the work? Sterbenor “dying”, which is also the original title of the film.
Ellen (Lilith Stangenberg) He is Tom’s sister, he works in Hamburg as an assistant in a dental office. She too is equipped with musical talent: she has a beautiful voice that she manages to express and enhance only in moments of intoxication …
The conflicts are below, incrontated and immobile over the years, without solutions, in the flow of life.
The director’s statements
Mathias Glasner started writing the film in a bar a few steps from home when once, watching outside the window, he saw the ghosts of his parents, who died shortly before, standing in the traffic.
“I finally want to approach themwhich I have never managed to do during their life. And the only way to get closer to something or someone is to make it a movie. So I start writing, in the sound of coffee machines, in this desolate place. I write here for a few hours a day for a few weeks to follow, “Glasner said in the notes of the film. «It is an experiment: is it possible to make a film as an approach to yourself, against every dramaturgical rule? A film that does not want to be a “product” or a “content”? A film that does not know himself, that consists of pure atmospherewho remains in the approximate? A film that does not want to demonstrate anything, does not even claim to affirm anything. Could someone interest the ending? ».
Glasner made it.
In this exclusive video An extract from the film The score of life.
