Der schöne Tag (2001)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Thomas Arslan

Writer:

Thomas Arslan (writer)

Release Date:

18 October 2001 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old boyfriend she gets to know Diego and spends the evening with him. |

Cast

Serpil Turhan	...	Deniz
Bilge Bingul	...	Diego
Florian Stetter	...	Jan
Selda Kaya	...	Leyla
Hafize Uner	...	Mutter von Deniz
Hanns Zischler	...	Regisseur
Elke Schmitter	...	Frau im Café
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Simone Bär	...	Regiassistentin
Jon Handschin	...	Mann in U-Bahn
Sibylle Hubatschek-Rahn	...	Synchronregisseurin
Natalie Peters	...	Freundin von Diego
Stefan Pethke	...	Taxifahrer
Katja Thimm	...	Synchroncutterin
Benedict Weber	...	Synchronsprecher
Nicole Winterbauer	...	Castingassistentin

Also Known As:

A Fine Day (International: English title)

Runtime:

74 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

Turkish | German

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | Hong Kong:I

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg (FBB)

Movie Connections:

Features Conte d'été (1996)

Pretentious, over-arty, purposeless, and boring

I do NOT advocate and hesitate even calling attention to the idea of seeing A Fine Day by Thomas Arslan. This film appeals to a very small niche of viewers: the pretentious. This story of a day in the life of Deniz, a young, disenchanted Berliner and her myriad relational problems, is the kind of purposeless over-arty film that keeps most people away from film festivals. In classic German cinematic fashion, facial expressions are kept to a minimum, which is fine if it?s still stimulating your brain or heart, which it is not. This is just people breaking up and thinking about breaking up. That is it; no revelations, no intricacies, and probably about twenty of the approximately eighty minutes look suspiciously like a mass transit advertisement, culminating in this ridiculous train scene: 1: She looks. He looks. Their gazes lock for an intense moment before breaking. 2: He looks. She looks. Their gazes lock for an intense moment before breaking. 3: Repeat steps 1 through 2, four or five times at least. There is some merit along the lines of exploring emotional expectations in breaking up, but that is about it. Of course, the thing could be brilliantly ironic because of its lack of expected emotion? but I would not bet on it.