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‘Dying’ Review: Lars Eidinger Carries The Weight Of Matthias Glasner’s Deep And Darkly Funny Family Drama
‘Dying’ Review: Lars Eidinger carries the weight of Matthias Glasner’s deep and darkly funny family drama
A sequence in which he conducts a rehearsal of Bernhard’s piece “Dying”, showing the rapt faces of the musicians in his youth orchestra before returning to Eidinger’s expression of transported joy as the sound pours towards his podium, is profoundly moving in a way that resists analysis: here is the power and beauty of art, a solid glory in the midst of this muddle of grievances, longings and unsettled lives. So does the idea that Bernhard could slap around young musicians at the Berlin Philharmonic without HR raising hell, defies belief; Dying never pretends to be social realism, with its heightened color and interleaved chapter headings, but at these moments it feels as if it is subsiding into melodrama. Title: Dying Festival: Berlin (Competition) Sales agent: Match Factory Director/screenwriter: Matthias Glasner Cast: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Lilith Stangerberg, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Ronald Zehrfeld Running time: 3 hr
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