Alles wird gut
Angelina Maccarone
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When Nabou is ditched by her girlfriend, she promptly accepts a cleaning job in her ex’s neighbour’s flat. This leads to her getting closer to career-minded, chain-smoking Kim, and she falls in love with her. Ambitious copywriter Kim is the polar opposite of the impulsive Nabou: successful but unhappy with her job at a Hamburg agency and her yuppie boyfriend Dieter, she prefers spending her time with single parent Kofi. After twists and tangles aplenty, Nabou and Kim finally come together in the nick of time. Just before Dieter can officially propose to Kim, the two women jump into the Alster and swim off.
Alles wird gut is the first entertainment film supported by German television with an Afro-German cast. According to screenwriter Fatima el Tayeb, choosing the screwball comedy genre was a »trick to present various minorities to a German primetime TV audience without having to explain the characters to them.« Comedy, according to el Tayeb, works against the distanced, detached, ethnological viewpoint or one that is supposed to arouse pity. This mainstream appropriation strategy is also reflected in the look of the film, inspired by Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee 1989). Alles wird gut is an example of the heyday in public funding. It took 16 years before the second German entertainment film with an Afro-German cast came along, in the form of Auf den zweiten Blick (Sheri Hagens 2012).
This movie contains discriminatory language.
Angelina Maccarone
Angelina Maccarone began her career as a songwriter (including pieces for Udo Lindenberg, the German rock star) before she came up with her first screenplay entitled Kommt Mausi raus?! – this in a collaborative venture with the NDR, the North German Broadcasting Corporation. As a result, she was directly nominated for a TeleStar. Also made for the NDR, her films Alles wird gut (Everything Will Be Fine) and Ein Engel schlägt zurück (An Angel‘s Revenge) were given screenings at numerous international festivals (Toronto, Los Angeles, Paris, Milan and London, for example) winning many an award in the process. In 2004, she directed Fremde Haut (Unveiled), for which she received in 2005 the Hesse Film Award. Her next project was the cinema movie Verfolgt (Hounded) which went on to win a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. You can see Verfolgt in Dortmund at this year‘s festival in the Independent-minded Woman programme section, a portrait here of actress Maren Kroyman. Since 2007, Angelina Maccarone has written and directed three episodes for Tatort (Crime Scene), a popular cop thriller series on prime-time German TV. Also in 2007, she made the cinema movie Vivere which has been a big success at various festivals. She has just completed her latest project, a cinema film about actress Charlotte Rampling.
Films by Angelina Maccarone
Tatort: Borowski und die Sterne 2009 | Tatort: Erntedank e.V. 2008 | Vivere 2007 | Verfolgt 2006 | Fremde Haut 2005 | Tatort: Wem Ehre gebührt 2002 | Ein Engel schlägt zurück 1998 | Alles wird gut 1998 | Kommt Mausi raus?! 1995
