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Zdeněk TycDrehbuch:
Markéta BidlasováKamera:
Patrik HoznauerBesetzung:
Petra Špalková, Jiří Schmitzer, Taťjana Medvecká, Marek Němec, Jana Pidrmanová, Zdeněk Palusga, Marek Taclík, Pavla Beretová, Luboš Veselý (mehr)Inhalte(1)
The end of summer in Like Never Before also means the end of a life. Painter Vladimír Holas is dying. He doesn't want to die in a hospital, so his country home in the middle of a beautiful landscape is his last resort. There are two women with him: Karla, younger and a painter like Vladimír, is a bohemian and doesn't flinch at using bad language. The older Jaruna is a nurse, the painter's former lover, and very different from Vladimír and Karla. All three fight useless battles against death, against themselves, and among themselves. A moving drama in which dying is no easy matter and caring for a dying person is an ordeal. (Verleiher-Text)
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A toned down picture which paradoxically would have benefitted from being even more toned down and primarily less shallow. Departure, the true face of love, father-son relationship... It bites into many themes. But most of them stop at that bite, however juicy these themes are. But I would have welcomed fewer mouthfuls, but more substantial. Not introducing more and more characters as the movie advances and naively addressing timeless themes, but to sticking with the untraditional Karla - Vlada - Jaruna relationship triangle would have been more than enough.
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Profound thoughts twisted by bizarre psychology and a promisingly provocative topic destroyed by questionable acting performances. No disrespect to Jiří Schmitzer or Petra Špalková, who literally work themselves to the bone, but when two shrilly alienating scenes overshadow one honestly delivered scene, I don't have much to draw on. Producer Ondřej Trojan was quotes as saying after the screening that they managed to create something hard to find in Czech cinema, but there is a lot of it at international festivals – a well-made drama about death and dying. That said, if there was anything of that to be found in the dozens of unnecessarily tiresome shots of glasses, wheels, and landscapes, I certainly didn't find it.
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Zdeněk Tyc and other encounters with depression, death, individualism, strong acting performances, and very interesting dialogues. Indeed, the etudes of Špalková and Medvecká often resemble a staged theatrical duet, while Schmitzer just exists through the role, and the ending is truly a full-fledged catharsis. So we could actually find Zdeněk? The paths of his career are indeed winding.
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Psychologisches Drama, das eine schwer verdauliche Sonde in die Gedankengänge der Charaktere, ihrer Beziehungen, Motivationen und Konflikte darstellt. Die herausragenden schauspielerischen Leistungen von Petra Špalková, Jiří Schmitzer und Taťjana Medvecká vereinen sich mit einem großartigen Drehbuch der Debütautorin und der präzisen Regie von Zdeněk Tyce, dem es offensichtlich gelungen ist, seine Vision kompromisslos umzusetzen. Die Charaktere sind außerordentlich gut geschrieben und die Dialoge intelligent. Wie noch nie zuvor ist dies ein außergewöhnlicher tschechischer Film von ungewöhnlicher Qualität.
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Like Never Before verdient ganz sicher mehr Zuschauer als nur dreitausend. Es ist ein sehr solides psychologisches Kammerdrama, das vor allem Jiří Schmitzer hervorstechen lässt, dem diese Rolle unglaublich steht. Darüber, ob Petra Špalková besser ist als Táňa Pauhofová, lässt sich stark polemisieren, das ist nur Ansichtssache. Ich hoffe, es war eng. Solche Streifen gibt es nur wenige, deshalb sollte für sie mehr geworben werden. Die Frage ist, ob das tschechische Publikum bereit wäre, für einen solchen Streifen ins Kino zu gehen.
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Great performances by the main trio, but unfortunately they don't lead anywhere. It's like the film wanted to say a lot about life and death, but in the end it only half-heartedly touched on the subject and didn't say almost anything. It's a pity because it's well directed, with interesting scenes, but you will still feel like it didn't give you much.
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