Four Minutes (2006)
(Vier Minuten)
Country: GER
Technical: col 115m
Director: Chris Kraus
Cast: Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig
Synopsis:
The pianistic talent of an aggressive inmate at a women's prison provides an ageing professor who has spent her working life in the building with some meaning and direction, but they must both overcome suspicion, prejudice and their prickly dispositions before they can really gain from the relationship.
Review:
Reminiscent of other piano films at various moments, this superbly acted two-hander survives some tricky editing early on but loses some conviction in the elision of time and plot development at other points. Nevertheless the flashbacks to the teacher's youth during the war are suitably chilling, and the piano-playing is a tour de force by the young actress (whether she mimes or not is not the point).
(Vier Minuten)
Country: GER
Technical: col 115m
Director: Chris Kraus
Cast: Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig
Synopsis:
The pianistic talent of an aggressive inmate at a women's prison provides an ageing professor who has spent her working life in the building with some meaning and direction, but they must both overcome suspicion, prejudice and their prickly dispositions before they can really gain from the relationship.
Review:
Reminiscent of other piano films at various moments, this superbly acted two-hander survives some tricky editing early on but loses some conviction in the elision of time and plot development at other points. Nevertheless the flashbacks to the teacher's youth during the war are suitably chilling, and the piano-playing is a tour de force by the young actress (whether she mimes or not is not the point).
(Vier Minuten)
Country: GER
Technical: col 115m
Director: Chris Kraus
Cast: Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig
Synopsis:
The pianistic talent of an aggressive inmate at a women's prison provides an ageing professor who has spent her working life in the building with some meaning and direction, but they must both overcome suspicion, prejudice and their prickly dispositions before they can really gain from the relationship.
Review:
Reminiscent of other piano films at various moments, this superbly acted two-hander survives some tricky editing early on but loses some conviction in the elision of time and plot development at other points. Nevertheless the flashbacks to the teacher's youth during the war are suitably chilling, and the piano-playing is a tour de force by the young actress (whether she mimes or not is not the point).