The Sexy International Paris Film Festival is proud to announce it will premiere for the first time in France the Berlinale International Film Festival's German Perspective 2010 Closing night Film "Bedways" by RP Kahl. The Film will premiere at Le Nouveau Cinema, Paris. Saturday 15 October. Mark it in your diaries.
Selected Reviews BERLINALE
"The steamy ‘Bedways’ has generated loud buzz at the Berlinale.“
(VARIETY, February 17, 2010)
"Lana Cooper and Matthias Faust excel with their fearlessness and warmth in a film project which must have been
rather challenging… the amazing Miriam Mayet is completely convincing… for the audience, who can finally witness
in German cinema how erotic true intimacy and passion in a sex scene can be.“
(DER SCHNITT, February 2010)
“(That’s when) the film has already swept you away with its hard, rocky sound, on a journey through the night,
leading you close to the abyss, following the footsteps of Abel Ferrara and Klaus Lemke. If the ‘Perspektive
Deutsches Kino’ is a promise, then ‘Bedways’ is the fulfilment: A film that promises nothing and fulfils everything. It is
a solitaire in the programme of the ‘Berlinale-Perspektive’… subversive avantgarde .”
(BERLINER MORGENPOST,
February 14, 2010)
“The images which ‘Bedways’ finds are exciting, never sterile nor embarrassing. At one point there are only Nina and
Hans left in their respective video cubicles, watching each other on the monitor. Nina watches, touches herself,
directs Hans. Minutes later she takes her mobile: ‘Get over here.’ And he does. That’s the beginning, the actual one.“
(TAGESSPIEGEL, February 11, 2010)
"The Berlinale has its first scandalous film. ‘Bedways’ by RP Kahl… Love – without taboos.“
(BILD, February 19,
2010)
“One film deserves special attention: ‘Bedways’. A film that brings a third pillar of German cinema into position,
between the mainstream and the ‘Berliner Schule’ … close to genre. It reminds one of Oskar Roehler or Fatih Akin,
the solitaires of German Cinema.“
(DEUTSCHLANDFUNK, February 16, 2010)
"The steamy ‘Bedways’ has generated loud buzz at the Berlinale.“
(VARIETY, February 17, 2010)
"Lana Cooper and Matthias Faust excel with their fearlessness and warmth in a film project which must have been
rather challenging… the amazing Miriam Mayet is completely convincing… for the audience, who can finally witness
in German cinema how erotic true intimacy and passion in a sex scene can be.“
(DER SCHNITT, February 2010)
“(That’s when) the film has already swept you away with its hard, rocky sound, on a journey through the night,
leading you close to the abyss, following the footsteps of Abel Ferrara and Klaus Lemke. If the ‘Perspektive
Deutsches Kino’ is a promise, then ‘Bedways’ is the fulfilment: A film that promises nothing and fulfils everything. It is
a solitaire in the programme of the ‘Berlinale-Perspektive’… subversive avantgarde .”
(BERLINER MORGENPOST,
February 14, 2010)
“The images which ‘Bedways’ finds are exciting, never sterile nor embarrassing. At one point there are only Nina and
Hans left in their respective video cubicles, watching each other on the monitor. Nina watches, touches herself,
directs Hans. Minutes later she takes her mobile: ‘Get over here.’ And he does. That’s the beginning, the actual one.“
(TAGESSPIEGEL, February 11, 2010)
"The Berlinale has its first scandalous film. ‘Bedways’ by RP Kahl… Love – without taboos.“
(BILD, February 19,
2010)
“One film deserves special attention: ‘Bedways’. A film that brings a third pillar of German cinema into position,
between the mainstream and the ‘Berliner Schule’ … close to genre. It reminds one of Oskar Roehler or Fatih Akin,
the solitaires of German Cinema.“
(DEUTSCHLANDFUNK, February 16, 2010)
Synopsis
A dilapidated, practically empty apartment in the Berlin district of ‘Mitte’. This is where Nina and two young actors
named Hans and Marie have come together to leave behind the winter cold for a few days and do some screen tests
for a film. Nina is a searcher; she wants her film to make feelings visible and intends to portray love by showing real
sex. But the more blurred the borders between fiction and reality become, the less Nina seems inclined to make the
film at all. Hans, who knows Nina from a brief encounter a long time ago, senses that she is searching for something
else. Nonetheless, he and Marie both agree to go along with the play-acting. So far, each is convinced that they are
pulling the strings. But Nina’s strategies of seduction weave an ever-tightening web around her protagonists. Nina’s
credo that they should not play themselves or anyone else soon becomes a trap for Hans and Marie. No wonder that
it becomes almost impossible to decipher where the acting ends and reality begins. The further Nina sets off down a
path to an unknown destination, the more the actors shield themselves from each other and keep their feelings to
themselves. Their longing for the outside world is a palpable force, but each attempt to open up to each other ends
in an emotional blow below the belt. Without a script, communication becomes balancing act; coolness and distance
would seem to be the only adequate means of protection. In this world, failure can only lead to a bittersweet happy
ending.
Cast
Nina Miriam Mayet
Marie Lana Cooper
Hans Matthias Faust
and
Laura Tonke (Baader, Wintersleepers)
Arno Frisch (Funny Games
A dilapidated, practically empty apartment in the Berlin district of ‘Mitte’. This is where Nina and two young actors
named Hans and Marie have come together to leave behind the winter cold for a few days and do some screen tests
for a film. Nina is a searcher; she wants her film to make feelings visible and intends to portray love by showing real
sex. But the more blurred the borders between fiction and reality become, the less Nina seems inclined to make the
film at all. Hans, who knows Nina from a brief encounter a long time ago, senses that she is searching for something
else. Nonetheless, he and Marie both agree to go along with the play-acting. So far, each is convinced that they are
pulling the strings. But Nina’s strategies of seduction weave an ever-tightening web around her protagonists. Nina’s
credo that they should not play themselves or anyone else soon becomes a trap for Hans and Marie. No wonder that
it becomes almost impossible to decipher where the acting ends and reality begins. The further Nina sets off down a
path to an unknown destination, the more the actors shield themselves from each other and keep their feelings to
themselves. Their longing for the outside world is a palpable force, but each attempt to open up to each other ends
in an emotional blow below the belt. Without a script, communication becomes balancing act; coolness and distance
would seem to be the only adequate means of protection. In this world, failure can only lead to a bittersweet happy
ending.
Cast
Nina Miriam Mayet
Marie Lana Cooper
Hans Matthias Faust
and
Laura Tonke (Baader, Wintersleepers)
Arno Frisch (Funny Games
Film Festival screenings:
Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin
(2010 – Closing Film „Perspective German Cinema“ – World Premiere)
Achtung Berlin Film Festival
(2010 – Competition „New Berlin Film Award“)
Moscow International Film Festival
(2010 – Opening Film Competition „Perspectives“ – International Premiere)
Ourense International Film Festival
(2010 – Section „In the limits of the permitted“ – Spanish premiere)
Raindance Film Festival
(2010 – Official Selection – UK premiere)
PornFilmFestival Berlin
(2010 – Feature Film Competition)
Clair-Obscur Filmfestival Basel
(2010 – Tribute RP Kahl – Swiss premiere)
Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin
(2011 – Preselection German Film Prize)
Fantasporto – Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto
(2011 – Official Selection – Portugal premiere)
Filmschau Frankfurt
(2011 – Competition)
Sydney Underground Film Festival
(2011 – Competition)
Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin
(2010 – Closing Film „Perspective German Cinema“ – World Premiere)
Achtung Berlin Film Festival
(2010 – Competition „New Berlin Film Award“)
Moscow International Film Festival
(2010 – Opening Film Competition „Perspectives“ – International Premiere)
Ourense International Film Festival
(2010 – Section „In the limits of the permitted“ – Spanish premiere)
Raindance Film Festival
(2010 – Official Selection – UK premiere)
PornFilmFestival Berlin
(2010 – Feature Film Competition)
Clair-Obscur Filmfestival Basel
(2010 – Tribute RP Kahl – Swiss premiere)
Berlinale – International Film Festival Berlin
(2011 – Preselection German Film Prize)
Fantasporto – Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto
(2011 – Official Selection – Portugal premiere)
Filmschau Frankfurt
(2011 – Competition)
Sydney Underground Film Festival
(2011 – Competition)