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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
“Jerichow” revisits James M. Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice” in a rural and economically stressed dwelling of Germany. Writer/director Christian Petzold seems to have been inspired to some degree by both of the renowned film adaptations of Cain’s modern, the noir classic “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1946) and Italy’s unauthorized “Ossessione” (1943) . But “Jerichow” isn’t a remake. It’s a German update that looks at commercially successful Turkish immigrants and Germans who are inspired to reckless and secretive behavior, perhaps to recapture some optimism at a point in their lives when they realize things haven’t gone as planned.
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Thomas (Benno Furmann) is encourage home after serving in the German army in Afghanistan, now in need of a job to inaugurate renovations on the house his recently deceased mother has left him. Ali Ozkan (Hilmi Sozer), who owns 45 snack bars in the place, asks Thomas to form his daily rounds of deliveries for him when his driver’s license is suspended for DUI. In spite of his heavy drinking, Ali is an demanding and perceptive businessman. He seems to want Thomas to learn the business, and he encourages Thomas to glean to know his beautiful German wife Laura (Nina Hoss) . But Thomas and Laura sight something of themselves in each other and come by the attraction irresistible.
This is stale territory, but it usually doesn’t feel like it. The characters befit their particular time and location. All are criminal in some sense, and all are sympathetic in some sense. We don’t find to know Laura well until gradual in the film, but the uneasy relationship between the two men develops over course of the film. Their mundane conversations design suspense, as the audience gets the creeping impression that things will turn out badly. Both men are enigmatic, frustrated, and hiding something that will have to give at some point. Kudos to Hilmi Sozer for making Ali a fully realized character, perhaps even more tragic than the rest, even though he is not a protagonist. In German with optional English subtitles.
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The DVD (Cinema Guild 2009) : Bonus features are a theatrical trailer (2 min), trailers from 3 other Christian Petzold films, and a “Making-of Documentary” (25 min) . This includes interviews with the director in which he discusses the characters and the socio-economic milieu in which the film takes residence and interviews with actors Benno Furmann and Nina Hoss, who discuss their characters. Petzold’s comments are particularly provocative and thoughtful. Bonus features have English subtitles that cannot be turned off. English subtitles are available for the film, and those can be turned off.
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