Film Screening
Franka Potente: Home
Goethe-Kino (Cinema Screening)
This July Franka Potente, best known as the running redhead in Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run, and for being chased alongside Matt Damon in the first two Bourne-films, turned fifty. A good moment to show the first film she wrote and directed, not only making a bold mid-life career move but also switching to a decidedly more contemplative mode.
After more than 17 years in prison, Marvin Hacks, now 40, makes his way home - on his skateboard and in the tracksuit – relics of the moment of his arrest as a young man. Home is Newhall, a small, non-descript town in California, where he settles in with his sick mother in the run-down house of his childhood. Marvin soon realizes that the murder for which he went to prison has not been forgotten and he faces the open hatred of the family of his victim.
Franca Potente takes her time to tell the classic story of the convict’s return home. She gives space to her first-rate cast, including Oscar winner Kathy Bates, to develop their characters and their relations which each other. As we watch them, we also take in the sun-lit small-town locations, which camera man Frank Griebe, who also worked with Tom Tykwer, has imbued with their own atmosphere. But he has avoided romanticising the misery of the place. Despite the sunshine Newhall remains recognizable as a depressed town, but it is the only place where Marvin can find his redemption.
Germany, France, Netherlands 2020. 100 min., in English.
Written and directed by Franka Potente. With Jake McLaughlin, Kathy Bates, Aisling Franciosi, Derek Richardson, James Jordan, Lil Rel Howery, Stephen Root.
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Details
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2PH
United Kingdom
Price: £5, Concession: £3 / Free for Language students & Goethe-Institut Library Members. Reservation required.
+44 20 75964000 info-london@goethe.de