"Vincent will Meer" or "Vincent Wants to Sea" is a German 90-minute movie from 5 years ago and let me start by saying that I quite like the English title as well. This film won Best Picture at the 2011 German Film awards plus Best Lead Actor. I thought Florian David Fitz, who was also nominated for the screenplay, played the part well. Not sure if the win was justified, but the nomination certainly was deserved. However, I am a bit baffled by the nominations of the two older actors in the supporting category. Ferch resembled Fitz physically so that the father-son story made sense, was solid and at least had a couple decent father-son talk moments, but nothing great, while Müller-Elmau was entirely forgettable in my opinion. So you already see that I did not like the scenes between these two very much, but I guess they had to include them to keep the film at 1.5 hours at least.
The scenes with Fitz, Herfurth and Allmayer were certainly superior. Some funny moments, some sad moments and decent drama that carries the film from start to finish. Sometimes the illness of Fitz' character did not feel entirely authentic, but only included for the story in terms of when it appeared and when it did not appear and not the other way around, but mostly it was fine. Herfurth is reliable as usual too and Allmayer did what he could with what he was given. I am not too sure if I liked the ending. I certainly liked that they did not go 100% for a happy ending that would have felt forced with what happens to Herfurth's character, but something was missing to really win me over here in terms of the ending.
I saw this one the first time briefly after it was released I think and I remember liking it more back then than on this rewatch today, but it was still a decent watch in my opinion. There are some good moments, some not-so-good, but overall the positive outweighs the negative and I recommend it. The music could have been a bit more impactful I think, but Huettner's experience behind the camera shows. If you can look past the unrealistic scenes like the trio still sticking together after one of the guys beats the crap out of another, then you will have a good time watching this one. Thumbs up.
The scenes with Fitz, Herfurth and Allmayer were certainly superior. Some funny moments, some sad moments and decent drama that carries the film from start to finish. Sometimes the illness of Fitz' character did not feel entirely authentic, but only included for the story in terms of when it appeared and when it did not appear and not the other way around, but mostly it was fine. Herfurth is reliable as usual too and Allmayer did what he could with what he was given. I am not too sure if I liked the ending. I certainly liked that they did not go 100% for a happy ending that would have felt forced with what happens to Herfurth's character, but something was missing to really win me over here in terms of the ending.
I saw this one the first time briefly after it was released I think and I remember liking it more back then than on this rewatch today, but it was still a decent watch in my opinion. There are some good moments, some not-so-good, but overall the positive outweighs the negative and I recommend it. The music could have been a bit more impactful I think, but Huettner's experience behind the camera shows. If you can look past the unrealistic scenes like the trio still sticking together after one of the guys beats the crap out of another, then you will have a good time watching this one. Thumbs up.