Passing Summer ( Mein langsames Leben )

Passing Summer (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Mein langsames Leben
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2001 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Angela Schanelec

Written By:
Angela Schanelec

Actors:
Ursina Lardi ..... Valerie
Andreas Patton ..... Thomas
Anne Tismer ..... Marie
Wolfgang Michael ..... Marie's Husband
Sophie Aigner ..... Maria
Clara Enge ..... Clara
Nina Weniger ..... Sophie
Devid Striesow ..... Valerie's Brother
Angela Schanelec ..... Geliebte des Vaters
Rüdiger Vogler ..... Linda
Margit Bendokat ..... Johanna
Mike Bols
Hubertus Durek
Nikolai Eberth
Chloé Hangard
Katharina Linder
Francesc Palamares-Hernan
Arnaud Sager
Maria Simon
Julia von vietinghoff

Synopsis:

A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in differing ways with friends, family, and lovers in this drama. Valerie (Ursina Lardi) is an author in her early thirties who has just moved to Berlin, while her best friend Sophie (Nina Weniger) will be spending the summer in Rome. Valerie falls into an affair with Thomas (Andreas Patton), a photographer who recently divorced his wife and is now caring for his four-year-old son on his own. As Valerie adjusts to her new relationship without her friend for support, she is also thrown into emotional turmoil when her father is rushed to the hospital, near death. Mein Langsames Leben was shown at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard series and was also screened in competition at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival.

An attempt to observe life from the outside - to gain distance, to not interfere, to just observe. Two young women sitting in a café on a summer day, a family arriving at the airport, an older woman sitting alone in a train, adult children standing in front of the hospital where their father is dying. Situations found everyday, a thousand times over. But what happens when you try to depict this normality?

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 October, 2008.

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