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Press Quotes for FOUR MINUTES
“The German entry FOUR MINUTES from Chris Kraus was not only a favourite with the audience at the 9th International Shanghai Film Festival but it also won the main prize, the Jin Jue Award, in the Best Feature Film category.“ (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
“The Jin Jue Award and the enthusiastic response to FOUR MINUTES will have a very positive effect on how German film is now seen in Asia.“ (Filmecho/ Filmwoche)
“As the end credits began to roll for FOUR MINUTES, the Chinese journalists burst into spontaneous applause. A masterpiece of European film making, which touched the audience, moving it to tears, but also shocking it.“ (Peninsula Morning Post, Hong Kong)
“The importance of the still young Shanghai Film Festival is growing. Celebrities at the enormous awards ceremony included the Hollywood actors Liam Neeson, Andie McDowell, Sigourney Weaver and the director Ang Lee. Along with the French actress Catherine Deneuve, who received a lifetime achievement award, the star of the evening was the less well-known director Chris Kraus. His film FOUR MINUTES, the only German entry in the festival, was about to leave empty handed, until the award for the Best Film was announced - and FOUR MINUTES became the surprise champion of the evening. Smiling, jury chairman Luc Besson said “We needed exactly four minutes to make the decision.“ at the presentation of the award.” (dpa)
“It is the second feature film by Chris Kraus, who caused a stir three years ago with his Scherbentanz, a poetic and wild drama about the degeneration of an upper class German family with Jürgen Vogel and Margit Carstensen. FOUR MINUTES also portrays an aggressive and dramatic relationship between two people: Monica Bleibtreu is an old piano teacher working in a women’s prison where she is faced one day with the young inmate Hannah Herzsprung, unapproachable, murderous, self-destructive – but a musical genius. The French chair of the jury Luc Besson was impressed by the great directing, script and cinematography and the excellent leading actresses.“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
“FOUR MINUTES was highly acclaimed and a deserving winner of the “Jin-Jue“ award: In its emotional depth, musicality, in the conflict between an old and a young woman, which in the end leads to the reconciliation of the generations and - perhaps conservatively- the recognition of the supremacy of age, this film has much with which the Chinese can identify at this time.“
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
“The second film from the young Chris Kraus (SCHERBENTANZ) returns home with the laurels from an A-Festival, and Germany has discovered another electrifying young actress: the 24 year old Hannah Herzsprung. With FOUR MINUTES she has been catapulted into the same league as Katharina Schüttler-/Julia Jentsch-/Sandra Hüller.“ (Die Welt)
“Herzsprung makes the screen tremble.“ (VARIETY)
“FOUR MINUTES was greeted with standing ovations at the Toronto International Film Festival.“
(FAZ)
“Do not be surprised if FOUR MINUTES becomes an early contender for Best Foreign Film at next year’s Oscar ceremony” (filmdramas)
“Emotions in capital letters. The drama FOUR MINUTES by Chris Kraus is larger than life – grand theatre on screen, which satisfies all the yearnings of the audience and was euphorically celebrated at the festivals in Shanghai and Hof. A piano teacher lures a young murderess to the piano and thus brings her out of her isolation: a film full of pathos, which the viewers have obviously been desperately waiting for. This film is the breakthrough for Hannah Herzsprung: a discovery such as Johanna Wokalek was before.“ (Programmkino.de – Kinomagazin)
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“The German entry FOUR MINUTES from Chris Kraus was not only a favourite with the audience at the 9th International Shanghai Film Festival but it also won the main prize, the Jin Jue Award, in the Best Feature Film category.“ (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
“The Jin Jue Award and the enthusiastic response to FOUR MINUTES will have a very positive effect on how German film is now seen in Asia.“ (Filmecho/ Filmwoche)
“As the end credits began to roll for FOUR MINUTES, the Chinese journalists burst into spontaneous applause. A masterpiece of European film making, which touched the audience, moving it to tears, but also shocking it.“ (Peninsula Morning Post, Hong Kong)
“The importance of the still young Shanghai Film Festival is growing. Celebrities at the enormous awards ceremony included the Hollywood actors Liam Neeson, Andie McDowell, Sigourney Weaver and the director Ang Lee. Along with the French actress Catherine Deneuve, who received a lifetime achievement award, the star of the evening was the less well-known director Chris Kraus. His film FOUR MINUTES, the only German entry in the festival, was about to leave empty handed, until the award for the Best Film was announced - and FOUR MINUTES became the surprise champion of the evening. Smiling, jury chairman Luc Besson said “We needed exactly four minutes to make the decision.“ at the presentation of the award.” (dpa)
“It is the second feature film by Chris Kraus, who caused a stir three years ago with his Scherbentanz, a poetic and wild drama about the degeneration of an upper class German family with Jürgen Vogel and Margit Carstensen. FOUR MINUTES also portrays an aggressive and dramatic relationship between two people: Monica Bleibtreu is an old piano teacher working in a women’s prison where she is faced one day with the young inmate Hannah Herzsprung, unapproachable, murderous, self-destructive – but a musical genius. The French chair of the jury Luc Besson was impressed by the great directing, script and cinematography and the excellent leading actresses.“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
“FOUR MINUTES was highly acclaimed and a deserving winner of the “Jin-Jue“ award: In its emotional depth, musicality, in the conflict between an old and a young woman, which in the end leads to the reconciliation of the generations and - perhaps conservatively- the recognition of the supremacy of age, this film has much with which the Chinese can identify at this time.“
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
“The second film from the young Chris Kraus (SCHERBENTANZ) returns home with the laurels from an A-Festival, and Germany has discovered another electrifying young actress: the 24 year old Hannah Herzsprung. With FOUR MINUTES she has been catapulted into the same league as Katharina Schüttler-/Julia Jentsch-/Sandra Hüller.“ (Die Welt)
“Herzsprung makes the screen tremble.“ (VARIETY)
“FOUR MINUTES was greeted with standing ovations at the Toronto International Film Festival.“
(FAZ)
“Do not be surprised if FOUR MINUTES becomes an early contender for Best Foreign Film at next year’s Oscar ceremony” (filmdramas)
“Emotions in capital letters. The drama FOUR MINUTES by Chris Kraus is larger than life – grand theatre on screen, which satisfies all the yearnings of the audience and was euphorically celebrated at the festivals in Shanghai and Hof. A piano teacher lures a young murderess to the piano and thus brings her out of her isolation: a film full of pathos, which the viewers have obviously been desperately waiting for. This film is the breakthrough for Hannah Herzsprung: a discovery such as Johanna Wokalek was before.“ (Programmkino.de – Kinomagazin)
You can read the press releases on FOUR MINUTES under the following link:
Download Presskit
