Night Noise

Since the birth of their child Tim, Livia (Alexandra Maria Lara) and Marco (Sebastian Blomberg) have been going through the motions. For the eight-month-old boy is a cry baby who hardly allows his parents a quiet minute. Only when the sleep-deprived producers drive the boy in the family Golf at 130 km/h on the highway, Tim can find the sleep of the righteous. But Livia and Marco have long since stopped enjoying these brief periods of rest, as almost every conversation ends in an argument. When they stop at a rest stop during another nightly calming drive, the young parents' worst nightmare becomes reality for all mothers and fathers: their car is stolen - along with Tim, who is slumbering peacefully inside. And so begins an adventurous chase that has a few surprises in store not only for Livia and Marco, but also for car thieves Jorge (Georg Friedrich) and Claire (Carol Schuler)...

With Nachtlärm, director Christoph Schaub and writer Martin Suter repeat the collaboration they successfully began with the drama Giulias Verschwinden. With a nice initial idea and some amusing ideas, such as a criminal pursuer with irritable bowel syndrome, the mixture of comedy and drama with light thriller elements has quite decent entertainment potential in itself. This is further enhanced by the good acting ensemble, which combines a lot of talent in front of the camera with Sebastian Blomberg, Alexandra Maria Lara and Georg Friedrich.

However, the film has one major problem that probably only a few viewers will really be able to get to grips with. This problem is that not only cry baby Tim, but also the constantly arguing and sometimes extremely stupid acting adults tug at the nerves of the audience. At the beginning, this still seems quite amusing in its authenticity. But soon Livia and Marco in particular lose the audience's initial sympathy. Their quarrels don't exactly reveal charming egos, the completely reckless driving style, which seems even more incomprehensible especially in view of the crisis situation, underlines this impression even more. And when a film loses its sympathetic characters, the audience's interest usually goes down with it.

And that's a real shame. Because between scenes that seem either annoying or inconsequential, the good potential of the story and of course Martin Suter's talent for good dialogue shine through again and again. But a few good moments, a nice basic idea and good actors unfortunately don't make a really good movie. Nachtlärm captures the hardships of long-suffering young parents well at the beginning, has some funny moments to offer as a comedy. But all in all, the whole thing is too exhausting to be considered good entertainment. So the film can only be recommended to parents who have a screaming child themselves. Because after the film they will be quite relaxed about the next night, always knowing: it can get much worse!

An article by Frankfurt-Tipp