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It doesn't get any greener than this, said the gardener, and flew away.

It doesn't get any greener than this, said the gardener, and flew away.

Deutschland 2018 - with Elmar Wepper, Emma Bading, Monika Baumgartner, Dagmar Manzel ...

The Frankfurt-Tipp rating:

Movie info

Genre:Drama, Comedy
Direction:Florian Gallenberger
Cinema release:30.08.2018
Production country:Deutschland 2018
Running time:Approx. 116 min
Rated:From 0 years
Web page:www.gruenerwirdsnicht-film.de

Gardener Schorsch (Elmar Wepper) is grumpy. His business is on the verge of bankruptcy, his marriage is far from mutually affectionate and his daughter doesn't even think of following in his footsteps, preferring to do something with art. When the bailiff shows up and wants to seize his beloved propeller plane, Schorsch has had enough. He climbs into his plane and jets off. For only above the clouds does he feel truly happy. A journey into the unknown now begins for the old gardener, during which he makes many acquaintances and realizes that happiness cannot be found by running away from the unpleasant things in life.

Grüner wird`s nicht. is a story about unfulfilled dreams, unusual friendships and about the fact that it is never too late for a new beginning - if you have the courage to break out of your everyday life. Elmar Wepper is perfectly cast in the role of Schorsch, who at first seems very unsympathetic and has hardly a kind word for his wife and daughter, but then slowly reveals his charming, lovable side on his odyssey. His acting, coupled with some truly wonderful landscape shots, are almost enough to make this mix of drama and quiet comedy worth watching.

However, there is also a drawback. The film is very episodic in structure and not every one of those individual parts really works well. For instance, there's Schorsch's stopover with an eccentric castle owner (Ulrich Tukur). True, this part of the story is important, as it is here that Schorsch meets the young Philomena (Emma Bading), who becomes his companion as he continues on his journey. But the overacting of the characters, especially Philomena's stepmother (Sunny Melles), seems oddly out of place. Very nice, on the other hand, is the part of the story in which Schorsch discovers several new passions at once on a disused airfield in Brandenburg, which will have a lasting effect on his life.

Towards the end the whole thing becomes really stirring and even goes to the heart. Until then, however, there are unfortunately also many very long-winded, somehow irrelevant scenes. When the movie works, it works really well. Florian Gallenberger succeeds convincingly in fleshing out the characters and changing them in the course of the story. What he does less well, however, is to trace the journey of the characters - of Schorsch as well as of his wife or of Philomena - in an equally convincing and rousing way. So Grüner wird`s nicht. is a nice film, but in the end it falls short of its potential. Worth seeing with some reservations

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