Shortly after Doris (Martina Gedeck) and Georg (Ulrich Tukur) took the time in the mysterious had half met the dark, jellyfish aquarium, you “the list”. That is, until he gave her a learned talk on the capabilities of the Medusas, to renew through own Eat, what you found admirable. And then it went further to the electric eel. Doris was George, the youngest aquarium Director of Germany, to Fall in love with smart. You would have given him hours of listening. And it did for twenty years. He liked her nose. He still likes you. The list, which was the common “life wish list”, dated and with signatures. The points, kids, house, Hawaii, Sex, Egypt, stay crazy – much of it in the course of time, ticked off. Although. The Sex is quite okay for someone with chronic back pain. Crazy stay – remained on the track. Or was he always a lot more conventional than you? At some point, so George admits coyly, “we have elected FDP”. He has a girlfriend, his wife has thrown him out. Now, both sit at the “conscious to unpair” (Gwyneth Paltrow), when the therapist Dr. Bruhns (Angelika Thomas). And soon it is life to confess and to.
He found it boring, as a mother, housewife and part-time in a gallery. For 800 euros a month, you have to think about it. Your self-confidence, perdu, he says. Bursting in the collar, “outrageous” is that you have, and gives him his career back. Ever you to take a mortgage on the joint house and do independently. About “with a construction company for castles in the air?”, he asks corrosive. He met, however, with a thirty years younger, a doctoral student, Laura (Lucie Heinze), the “woman of his life” and feel like thirty. Was in love, he is in the “feeling that just one more time everything could start”. That he “will not die” would. Doris replied: “I’m just to Die for?”
In wired rubber suits to prevent the fall
The separation of Comedy, “And who takes the dog?” shows the ARD within the framework of the “summer cinemas in the First”. The Film, which was nominated at the Filmfest Munich for the Bernd Burgermeister-price and in the past year in the cinema of delivery, is not an existential drama such as the classic “Kramer vs. Kramer” still a detailed psychological profile of a failed relationship such as the Netflix series “Marriage Story” of Noah Baumbach, both of which are Oscar-winner and the gold standard of the genre. “And who takes the dog?” to the Failure of the marriage of Doris and George have more of the funny, and sometimes of the absurd page. Writer Martin Rauhaus, excellent connoisseur of the Human, writes Martina Gedeck and Ulrich Tukur for the therapy scenes and dialogues, especially the relationship of audited audience remains the Laughter of self-knowledge is stuck in the throat.
Director Rainer Kaufmann (“blueberry blue”, “Ein fliehendes Pferd”), with success on the exuberant joy of playing his main character and his main cast member. Touching to ridiculous, as George and his best friend Peter (Peter Jordan) is a fitness Studio in electrodes wired rubber suits slap against the alleged expiration of their masculinity. I can’t believe how Doris falls on the Schwadroneur Axel (Marcel Hensema) in, – “at last one can begin with Derrida something!” – the meeting at the first your girlfriend, Claudia (Julika Jenkins) was cruising. Amazing how Doris’ and George’s children, for a long time on its own Due to on-the-go, everything is pretty trivial to find.
