What a great afternoon.
I went to see Akin's The Edge of Heaven / Wie die Anderen leben at the PIFF.
It's my favorite film of his so far, we'll see if that sentiment holds up after the novelty wears off. What perhaps also made a difference is having been almost everywhere the film was filmed-- except for some of the smaller cities in Turkey.
Not only was it existential and ripe for discussion hand-in-hand with Pamuk's work (the academic turned bookseller from the small town in Turkey who started out living in Germany with the narrator of Pamuk's Snow) but there were even some good Frau-Frau scenes, and not only that, but also girls in the slammer, and even the leaving academia moment! I found the entire work quite exciting. Revolution-inklusiv. As the story developed, the end actually seemed to fit, though the whole time and throughout all of the crossed paths, I was plugging for things to actually work out in terms of the different peoples' goals, and oddly, the different goals were in fact met, but not by the people who wanted to meet them, it seems. . How Germany meets Turkey, through a variety of relationships in which both elements are always represented in the different interactions. The word Edge in the title is, I think, integral to discussing it, there are so many edges of different realities, edges which always seem to almost meet, but not quite. What I also found pretty neat was the whole Goethe element: the discussion of Goethe's reaction to the revolution as being like a rose in winter (which then totally explains Hofmannsthal's discussion of a rose in winter) and also in terms of the Werther-Lotte element, and Lotte of course dies. But the German dies in Turkey. That was some good sturm and drang. Instead of Lotte in Weimar, we have Lotte in Istanbul. I also loved the element of how all of these mourning episodes then turn into travel stories, and the sending of caskets back and forth between countries. Still thinking about it.
I'm too excited about it at the moment to feel very coherent, but I will supply a clip, in which the girlfriend hangs out with her girlfriend's mother:
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I went to see Akin's The Edge of Heaven / Wie die Anderen leben at the PIFF.
It's my favorite film of his so far, we'll see if that sentiment holds up after the novelty wears off. What perhaps also made a difference is having been almost everywhere the film was filmed-- except for some of the smaller cities in Turkey.
Not only was it existential and ripe for discussion hand-in-hand with Pamuk's work (the academic turned bookseller from the small town in Turkey who started out living in Germany with the narrator of Pamuk's Snow) but there were even some good Frau-Frau scenes, and not only that, but also girls in the slammer, and even the leaving academia moment! I found the entire work quite exciting. Revolution-inklusiv. As the story developed, the end actually seemed to fit, though the whole time and throughout all of the crossed paths, I was plugging for things to actually work out in terms of the different peoples' goals, and oddly, the different goals were in fact met, but not by the people who wanted to meet them, it seems. . How Germany meets Turkey, through a variety of relationships in which both elements are always represented in the different interactions. The word Edge in the title is, I think, integral to discussing it, there are so many edges of different realities, edges which always seem to almost meet, but not quite. What I also found pretty neat was the whole Goethe element: the discussion of Goethe's reaction to the revolution as being like a rose in winter (which then totally explains Hofmannsthal's discussion of a rose in winter) and also in terms of the Werther-Lotte element, and Lotte of course dies. But the German dies in Turkey. That was some good sturm and drang. Instead of Lotte in Weimar, we have Lotte in Istanbul. I also loved the element of how all of these mourning episodes then turn into travel stories, and the sending of caskets back and forth between countries. Still thinking about it.
I'm too excited about it at the moment to feel very coherent, but I will supply a clip, in which the girlfriend hangs out with her girlfriend's mother:
h
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