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Vincent Wants to Sea

Vincent Wants to Sea (Vincent will Meer)

Movie · 2010 · 11 people

Ralf Huettner directed Vincent Wants to Sea (German: Vincent will Meer), a road movie and tragicomedy made in Germany in 2010. Florian David Fitz wrote the original screenplay and also plays the male lead. With a tone that mixes laughter and sadness, it follows three young people facing illness and exclusion in search of freedom, and it drew mostly positive reviews in Germany.

The story follows Vincent, a young man with Tourette syndrome. After his mother dies he is placed in a clinic, where he meets Alexander, who has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and Marie, who has anorexia. One night the three slip away and set off on their own toward the sea in Italy. Beside Fitz, the cast includes Karoline Herfurth, Johannes Allmayer, Heino Ferch, Katharina Müller-Elmau and Karin Thaler, along with Turkish-German actor Tim Seyfi.

Olga Film, a subsidiary of Constantin Film, produced it, with shooting from late July to September 2009 in Germany, Austria and Italy, including Munich, the Allgäu, Berchtesgaden and Trieste. It opened in Germany on 22 April 2010, passed a million admissions and ranked among the year's most successful German productions. It won a Bambi, two Bavarian Film Awards, two German Film Awards and a Jupiter Award, and the US remake The Road Within followed in 2014.

DirectorRalf Huettner
Production companyOlga Film

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Tim Seyfi Tim Seyfi Actor · 55 years old Florian David Fitz Karoline Herfurth Heino Ferch Katharina Müller-Elmau Johannes Allmayer Karin Thaler Christoph Zrenner Markus H. Eberhard Butz Ulrich Buse Felix Rech

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Florian David Fitz writing the script and playing the lead gives the film a clear unity; the character feels as if he grew out of the text. Its real achievement is tonal balance: laughter and sadness move along without smothering each other, and illness is neither a joke nor a tool for jerking tears. Locations stretching from Germany to Italy give the road movie an airy visual rhythm. But the structure is too familiar, in my view: an escape from an institution, misfits getting used to each other on the road, the sea as the goal on the horizon. It rarely leaves the genre's well-known stops, and some turns can be seen coming. A warm, careful road movie that holds few surprises.

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The story of three young people living with Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anorexia opens up mental health and exclusion in the language of mainstream cinema. What stands out is that it doesn't reduce its characters to their diagnoses; it sees them not as cases placed in a clinic but as young people looking for freedom. That it passed a million admissions in Germany shows the theme struck a chord with a wide audience. The presence of Turkish-German actor Tim Seyfi also gives Turkish viewers a small but pleasant connection.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A thought-provoking film you can watch with teenagers. It deals with heavy subjects such as illness, an eating disorder and losing a mother, so it isn't suitable for young children. It is a good chance to watch with a high-schooler and talk afterwards. The funny moments soften the sadness, but don't expect light entertainment.

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