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Director talent Maren Ade is in Cannes as a favorite
Director Maren Ade’s film “Toni Erdmann” is the first German contribution to the competition at the film festival in Cannes since 2008 and the international critics are enthusiastic. For many it is regarded as the favorite.
In Cannes, many expect now that the price for the young Director. Her Film “Toni Erdmann” has convinced many viewers and critics. “The need to win something,” was on Saturday (14.5.) to listen in Cannes, again and again, as well as “a clear favorite”. It is a giant would be a surprise if Maren Ade would win the Palme d’or. At the film festival of Berlin, the now 39-Year-old of 2009, the Silver bear for her feature film “All Other”.
Film is not studied First. In 1998, Maren Ade studied at the University for Film and television (HFF) in Munich for the first time for the Department “production and media Economics”. Two years later, in 1976, in Karlsruhe-born Ade changed not only the expertise but also their professional orientation: in Film and television game – the latter is equipped in Germany with a extremely high-quality scale – were your favorites.
In 2001, she ventured, together with Janine Jackowski the leap into self-employment as a Producer: “accomplices of the Film,” said the ambitious film production company, with the help of which you came from now on your own projects. “Karma Cowboy” makes 2002 as a movie of the Talk and your name as producer in the film industry.
New role for Director (2. v. re): appearance with your actors on the Red carpet in Cannes
Ambitious Directorial Talent
Your own diploma film at the HFF was a great movie. “The forest for the trees” received the 2005 right away the Special Jury Award at the legendary Sundance Film Festival in the United States, the Robert Redford-founded as a Forum for independently produced Film. A high level of professional recognition for a debut film from Germany.
In the same year, her work on this film was appreciated in Germany, too, officially and for the Federal film award nominated. In the case of a festival tour across Germany, this cinema production Maren Ade brought a lot of laurels – as a screenwriter and as a Director’s talent.
You like to work with strong actors who can offer their Director’s ideas also. “I need a, I sit on eye level apart”, she describes her triple role of screenwriter, Director and independent producer.
Breakthrough at the Berlinale
With her second feature film, the managed Maren Ade then, each new Director can only dream of. The cinema production of “All Other”, with Birgit Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger in the leading roles, was in 2009 in the competition of the Berlinale, premiered and won two bears. Maren Ade was awarded the Jury’s Grand prize for her Film the Silver bear, Birgit Minichmayr (right) a Silver bear as Best actress.
Success at the Berlinale: Lars Eidinger and Birgit Minichmayr in the movie “All the Others”
A great success – and a Glückfsall for their small production company, which is now expected abroad, to the “Berlin school”. “For me, this is more of a friendly connection, I don’t understand the term so much,” she says. Even after the great Berlin success she remains modest, however: “I realize that it makes a very happy and self-esteem,” says Ade in an Interview with the online portal kino-zeit.de. “It is also a great confirmation. I now still have the feeling that I know how to make movies.”
Current nomination for Cannes
And then the surprising invitation to the prestigious film festival after Cannes, this year, from 11. up to the 22. May take place. With her feature film “Toni Erdmann” for years, for the first time in a German Film in competition for the Palme d’or.
Seven years, Maren Ade has left time for the substance. “Toni Erdmann” is one of twenty international cinema productions that were nominated by the Jury for the main competition. The last Time a German contribution to the competition on the Croisette: the road movie “Palermo Shooting” directed by Wim Wenders delivery in 2008. Since then, German productions in Cannes, had a severe Stand.
With the current invitation in the main competition a long thirst is track for German productions. Maren Ade can also come up with a top-class cast: Sandra Hüller (38) and Peter Simonischek (69) play with the style of an aging music teacher and his career minded daughter.
Funny and profound: the two main actors Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller
The strong chamber play, the beginning of the competition, with films from veteran Petro Aldmóvar and US Director Jim Jarmusch, has serious prospects for a Golden palm in Cannes. Under the chairmanship of the American “Mad Max”Director George Miller, the Jury will at the end of the International film festival in Cannes (11.- 22.5.2016) decide whether Maren Ade can take the Golden trophy home.
Asked whether she has for its intense relationship dramas role models in your head, called the Director of the classic movie “When the gondolas wear grief”. Also Ingmar Bergman’s abysmal screen drama “scenes from a marriage” have been viewed multiple times. “There’s a lot of negotiating the dialogue and he is heavily focused on two actors,” she says.
Maren Ade has a pronounced preference for everyday reality because they bring their ideas. In order to make the “relationship madness” on the screen bearable, puts you in your films always the right amount of Humor. In your Director’s work, concentrating especially on the role of the implementation of the actor in front of the camera: “Such a figure in your head, is wiped out, due to the fact that someone plays. I can’t part with it.”
This is the pound, she is now in Cannes in the competition. The International critics were impressed at the first screening of the German competition post by Maren Ade.