THE OPINION OF “THE WORLD” – TO SEE
Lissy, in her sixties (Corinna Harfouch), sits on the floor in her excrement, mobile phone in hand. It’s everywhere, on her hands, on the carpet in the entrance hall of the apartment. Her husband (Hans-Uwe Bauer), Gert, has been up to his tricks again. He has escaped from the house naked and the neighbor finally brings the old man back, haggard. For the umpteenth time, Lissy has left a message for her son, Tom (Lars Eidinger), a conductor in Berlin, who is never there. His absorbing job gives the title to Matthias Glasner’s drama, The Partition (Dietitre original).
The old couple is dazed, and when Tom finally calls his mother back, Lissy hasn’t had time to clean her phone, which smells of shit, let’s be honest. Her gestures introduce a comical atmosphere: she holds it away from her ear, looking disgusted, while summarizing the situation: Could Tom come and see them? The son promises to find a time. In the meantime, they have to go shopping. Lissy is driving and can’t see anything. She has to count on Sébastien to warn her of the dangers. About twenty minutes have passed and we allow ourselves to laugh. For three hours, in four movements, this Partition dry and explosive will untangle the threads of wounded existences, in the company of excellent actors.
Narration close to the series
The German director, rather rare – his last feature film dates back more than ten years, Grace (2013) – does not seek to bring tears to our eyes, but rather to analyze his own torpor when he thinks about his family. He actually wrote the screenplay after the death of his parents, and chose the long film to experiment with a narration close to the series. But the western is not far away, with words that hurt more than bullets: this is what happens when a son no longer feels anything for his mother, and vice versa.
After getting to know the parents, who live in a small town, the viewer will “spend time” with Tom in Berlin. The forty-year-old is in the middle of a rehearsal with his young musicians, and he has the composer of the piece on his back, who is never happy. A caricature of a cursed artist. Nothing He is getting angry and he constantly threatens to postpone the premiere, which would cause chaos for the patrons who are financing the creation.
Tom has a life, after all, he has a relationship with the administrator of the orchestra. Finally, his former girlfriend, who has become a friend, is about to give birth. Tom does have a sister, Ellen (Lilith Stangenberg), who has been dumped and is explosive, but the two have grown apart. A crazy chapter will be devoted to the young woman, as she goes to bars with her lover, a dentist, to end in style in the dental office, during a scene close to the Grand-Guignol.
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