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Slávek HorákKamera:
Jan ŠťastnýBesetzung:
Alena Mihulová, Bolek Polívka, Tatiana Dyková, Zuzana Kronerová, Sara Venclovská, Eva Matalová, Marián Mitaš, Helena Čermáková, Ivan Řehák (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Láďa, her daughter and her patients. This abstemious woman who radiates joy begins each day with a drop of plum brandy, and not even the whims of her clients can wipe that sweet smile off her face. Her Láďa might be a Moravian free spirit who's happy with a simple answer to every question, but the two of them are united by an inseverable bond. One ordinary day ends differently from all the others, however, and not only Vlasta but everyone around her are going to have to get used to the fact that she's the one who's going to need looking after. Everyone knows about the finality of human existence but the realisation of life's actual limits comes to each of us individually and often unexpectedly. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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Ein weiteres tschechisches Sterben an Krebs, das nur wegen dem bemerkenswerten sanften Humor interessant ist, für welchen die Regie sorgt.
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After my chat with Mihulová and Polívka, I was really sad that I didn’t get to see the movie at the movie festival in Karlovy Vary. Luckily, I made up for it, because the local theatre started screening it and so I wasted no time and decided to immediately go support the movie. And I have to say – it was worth it. Slávek Horák is an excellent director and he has connected one rather harsh human life story with his unique humor, which has beautifully softened the difficult circumstances of the characters in some of the tenser scenes. Bolek Polívka has delivered a decent acting performance that reminded me of his role in The Inheritance. What’s more, his wife played by Alena Mihulová is also named Vlasta. Now let us say some more about Alena Mihulová. Her acting performance was something absolutely extraordinary and beautiful. I’d really love to thank her personally one more time, because she’d deserve standing ovations from all of us for this role, just like she’d deserve to win some type of an award validating her qualities. She’s handled this incredibly difficult role in such a human way and her performance is more sober than anything I’ve seen in a Czech movie in a while. I can’t rate the heavy story but also the human side of it, including the humor itself, with less than the full five stars. Home Care is a beautiful movie that confirms the fact that Czech cinematography can have a very high quality.
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Home cares has high its highs and lows. You don't expect anything from it, and it first excites you with the golden sixtieth solid aura of the new wave, then it turns in a completely different direction, it is packed with ambitions that are very close to being ridiculous self-parody, and finally the movie is saved by a really nice ending. Horák seems to have an undeniable talent as both a screenwriter and a director, but he would need a big stick in the form of an uncompromising playwright.
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The supporting role with Tatiana Vilhelmová should have remained in the background and not inexplicably come to the forefront. Its transparency and, consequently, its lack of finality is what ultimately causes Home Care to fall through the cracks. It's a shame because the buzz was decent, Boleslav Polívka gives his first perfectly normal performance in years, and thanks to a topic that is close to my heart professionally, I was prepared to meet the film halfway wherever I could.
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Tadellose Schauspielleistungen, vor allem die von den zwei Haupthelden – da besteht kein Zweifel. Was würden aber so gute Darsteller*innen bringen, wenn der Stoff uninteressant gewesen wäre und wenn sie keinen Regisseur gehabt hätten, der es schaffen würde, ihn interessant zu verfilmen. Bis auf den europäischen "Witz“ mit der Unterführung für Frösche und den "Witz“ mit dem Umdrehen der Patientin war der Film sehr gut – zart, gefühlvoll und mit einem guten Ende.
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Ich habe angenommen, dass dieses Jahr kein tschechischer Film The Snake Brothers übertreffen kann. Und doch ist es passiert. So ein kleines Filmwunder. Home Care hat mich intensiv bis ins Herz getroffen. Ich mag nicht glauben, dass es sich um ein filmisches Debüt handelt. In erster Linie muss ich die exzellente Leistung von Alena Mihulová hervorheben, ihre Vlasta ist ein Schatz zum Verlieben und in Mihulovás Interpretation sehr expressiv und herzzerreißend. Ich hoffe und glaube, dass ihr kein Filmpreis entgeht - Karlovy Vary war hoffentlich der Anfang. Schauspielerisch haben mir auch Polívka und Vilhelmová gefallen, ein anderer hätte die Figur des Láďa wahrscheinlich gar nicht spielen können. Was ich vor allem schätze, ist die hervorragende Verarbeitung des wesentlichen Themas - eines Konflikts zwischen einem Gesunden und einem Kranken. Der Kranke, der mit seiner Krankheit kämpft und sie nicht "ummantelt“, versucht alles Mögliche, um gesund zu werden. Und dabei wird er bei einem Gesunden nur selten Verständnis finden, was jedoch gewissermaßen verständlich ist, denn ein Gesunder kann sich nie voll und ganz in einen Kranken einfühlen. Ein weiteres Element, das wirklich gelungen ist, ist der Humor. Humor wurde in Home Care mit Bedacht eingesetzt, und er wirkt in keiner Szene peinlich. Und da meine ich primär nicht die Sprüche von Láďa/Bolek. Der Schluss ist einer der besten, die ich bei Filmen dieses Genres gesehen habe - Amerikaner, hier könnt ihr was lernen. Slávek Horák, ich danken Ihnen von ganzem Herzen für dieses außerordentlich starke Filmerlebnis und wünsche Ihnen so viele Böhmische Löwen wie möglich.
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The cast was decent, but the film turned out to be disappointing for me. I was just watching someone slowly die for an hour and a half without any interest in the story whatsoever. Plus, those esoteric cultists were quite annoying, and the whole film kind of bummed me out. Eventually, it dawned on me that all I had to do to ‘enjoy’ a similar experience, was to turn off the DVD player and immerse myself in my own ‘afterlife’. The problem is that I want a film to make me forget that and not the other way around. I'm not a fan of French cinema, but Intouchables was on a whole other level.
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An interesting film about life and death, which contains emotions but actually is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. It is simply like life is and how we make it. Bolek Polívka has, perhaps, only one moment here where he shows that he is a good actor, otherwise he doesn't act much, whereas Alena Mihulová steals the film for herself.
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