Run If You Can
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Cycle de cinéma
Le 23 Février 2017
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Cinéma/TV
Accra – Ghana
English
He is a quick-witted young man, loves to tell wild stories, and is paraplegic. The woman of his dreams is beautiful. She cycles past his house every day, a cello case on her back. But girls like that don't fall in love with wheelchair-bound men, and so love is out of the question for Ben. At least that is what he explains to Christian (Jacob Matschenz), who is doing his civilian service looking after him, and whom Ben orders about with black humour and a considerable dose of spitefulness.
Christian is a nice guy, a happy-go-lucky type of person. The young men quickly become friends. That is, until the young cellist Annika (Anna Brüggemann) enters their lives and they both fall in love with her. Their friendship is put to a severe test.
Suddenly and inevitably, questions are raised: how does friendship work when love interferes, and how do love and sex work when you're in a wheelchair?
Annika finds herself torn between the two friends: at first she feels attracted to the cheerful, light-footed Christian. Ben doesn’t think he’s got a chance with her, simply because he assumes that, as a physically disabled man, he can't be attractive in her eyes. But then things turn out differently. He and Annika grow closer, and their closeness takes on a physical dimension. A relationship develops between them, one that pushes them to the extremities of their emotional boundaries, but also gives them the impetus to grow as people.
Run if you can is Brüggemann's first full-length feature film. He wrote the screenplay together with his sister Anna. It was the opening film at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival's programme "Perspektive Deutsches Kino".
Christian is a nice guy, a happy-go-lucky type of person. The young men quickly become friends. That is, until the young cellist Annika (Anna Brüggemann) enters their lives and they both fall in love with her. Their friendship is put to a severe test.
Suddenly and inevitably, questions are raised: how does friendship work when love interferes, and how do love and sex work when you're in a wheelchair?
Annika finds herself torn between the two friends: at first she feels attracted to the cheerful, light-footed Christian. Ben doesn’t think he’s got a chance with her, simply because he assumes that, as a physically disabled man, he can't be attractive in her eyes. But then things turn out differently. He and Annika grow closer, and their closeness takes on a physical dimension. A relationship develops between them, one that pushes them to the extremities of their emotional boundaries, but also gives them the impetus to grow as people.
Run if you can is Brüggemann's first full-length feature film. He wrote the screenplay together with his sister Anna. It was the opening film at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival's programme "Perspektive Deutsches Kino".
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