“Amrum” by Fatih Akin on the Filmfest Cannes | EUROtoday

It blows a violent wind over Cannes today. On Saturday, stormy gusts upgraded a palm. When the tree fell, he injured a movie producer. The reasonably proverbial storm, alternatively, is brewing within the American specialist press because it grew to become identified that Kevin Spacey is predicted in Cannes to simply accept an honor for his life’s work.

Although the award is to happen as a part of a charity, i.e. isn’t a part of the official program, two years in the past in New York, the Spacey acquired from the accusations of sexual harassment may additionally run over the pink carpet. So sufficient materials for pleasure, which Spacey will principally function promoting for his new movie venture, which thriller “The Awakening”, will serve.

The competitors, alternatively, blows a recent breeze, which is especially vital to the movies of the younger administrators. In her contemplative work “Renoir”, the Japanese Chie Hayakawa tells of a woman who tries to course of with a variety of creativeness that the daddy dies of most cancers. And the French Hafsia Herzi watches a lesbian younger girl from Algerian household in her coming-of-age drama “The Youngest Daughter” as she tries to construct up a life in Paris.

Fatih Akin does that in his movie “Amrum” as calmly, however participated as Herzi seems to be at her protagonist, who celebrated its premiere right here in a facet line. Akin described the work on the movie as a journey into the depths of his “German soul”. It is an atypical movie for him. In the opening credit it says: “A Hark-Bohm film by Fatih Akin”. Bohm, Akin’s good friend and cinematic instructor, needed to adapt his novel of the identical identify for the display.

“But he couldn’t do the film anymore,” says Akin in the course of the premiere, so the youthful one switched from the producer position to that of the director, whereby he held his good friend’s actual notes, primarily based on his reminiscences of childhood on the North Sea island in the course of the Second World War. Two boys duck into the furrows of a potato macker whereas an aviation relay lets bombs clap into the ocean. The twelve -year -old Nanning helps out within the area of farmer Tessa; Diane Kruger has discovered the Amrum dialect for this small however vital position. In entrance of the Feuersturm, Nanning’s mom fled her residence island. Nanning’s father fights as a SS man on the Eastern Front.

When the boy asks at dinner whether or not the daddy would quickly come residence as a result of the struggle ends, the mom rages from “high treason” and goes to farmer Tessa who has made this forecast when a refugee extension. The boy doesn’t point out that she spoke of the “shit war”.

We see what is occurring from his perspective. When the mom interrogates him on the kitchen desk, concern shines in his massive blue eyes. Should he reveal the lady who helps to feed his household? Who does he imagine when the opposite islanders inform him tales about his household who don’t coincide with the model of the dad and mom?

Above all, summer season on the island is an journey. The younger rabbit hunts to get meals for the mom. At full moon he sneaks to the seashore, for driftwood. An owl flies by way of the night time. Swarms of birds climb out of the dunes. The watt bubbles. Akin reveals great thing about nature with out kitsch. Romance is way from him. He finds the German soul in wrestle with the guilt of the Nazi dad and mom.