When a journalist wants to get back at the owner of a heartbreak agency for advising his girlfriend to break up with him, he writes an article against her. The article results in Karl losing his job! He, however, reluctantly takes a session with the therapist, Maria, to understand her theories on heartbreak, which would help him get his job back. Directed by Shirel Peleg, the German film The Heartbreak Agency is sure to steal our attention with a storyline that is out of the box. Will Maria help Karl realize the reasons behind his inability to love someone with all his heart? Will Karl and Maria develop feelings for each other in the process? Let’s find out!
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Why Did Karl Lose His Job?
Karl, an overconfident journalist, wrote a sexist article on the Heartbreak Agency after his girlfriend broke up with him. Before writing the article,...
Spoilers Ahead
Why Did Karl Lose His Job?
Karl, an overconfident journalist, wrote a sexist article on the Heartbreak Agency after his girlfriend broke up with him. Before writing the article,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
The Heartbreak Agency is a romantic movie directed by Shirel Peleg starring Rosalie Thomass and Laurence Rupp. It is based on the book by Elena-Katharina Sohn.
“The Heartbreak Agency” is a humorous comedy that, at its core, tells the same old story: a love story that begins and fills the characters with hope. With its drops of comedy, realism, and even bitterness, but with an overall cheerful and lighthearted tone.
Is it the same old story? Yes and no, because “The Heartbreak Agency” has a good script and the characters don’t seem like they were taken from a preconceived design. They are well-crafted and, although they ultimately tell the same story, they are constructed with enough intelligence and creativity to say that this movie has an original, intelligent, and even creative point.
Despite being, at its core, a romantic comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes.
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“The Heartbreak Agency” is a humorous comedy that, at its core, tells the same old story: a love story that begins and fills the characters with hope. With its drops of comedy, realism, and even bitterness, but with an overall cheerful and lighthearted tone.
Is it the same old story? Yes and no, because “The Heartbreak Agency” has a good script and the characters don’t seem like they were taken from a preconceived design. They are well-crafted and, although they ultimately tell the same story, they are constructed with enough intelligence and creativity to say that this movie has an original, intelligent, and even creative point.
Despite being, at its core, a romantic comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes.
Plot
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- 2/14/2024
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Exclusive: Christine Günther and Chevy Chen, the co-founding heads of Berlin and Los Angeles-based production company Fireglory Pictures, first met in Germany via Doug Liman’s executive produced series Covert Affairs.
“I was handling international producing work and met Christine when I came over to Berlin for some unit work,” recounts Chen.
The pair hit it off and started collaborating on a piecemeal basis and then firmed up the working relationship with the creation of joint company Fireglory Pictures just over eight years ago.
They have completed three features under the banner to date: whacky rom-com Kiss Me Kosher, feature documentary Nasima, and ex-convict drama Home, on which they were co-producers.
Projects on the boil include hybrid live variety show and documentary project Music and the Machine by Jacob Kornbluth, best known for Inequality For All and Saving Capitalism; transhumanism drama The Procreators, in which a couple are given the...
“I was handling international producing work and met Christine when I came over to Berlin for some unit work,” recounts Chen.
The pair hit it off and started collaborating on a piecemeal basis and then firmed up the working relationship with the creation of joint company Fireglory Pictures just over eight years ago.
They have completed three features under the banner to date: whacky rom-com Kiss Me Kosher, feature documentary Nasima, and ex-convict drama Home, on which they were co-producers.
Projects on the boil include hybrid live variety show and documentary project Music and the Machine by Jacob Kornbluth, best known for Inequality For All and Saving Capitalism; transhumanism drama The Procreators, in which a couple are given the...
- 10/25/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Producers eye spring 2024 release, note “tragic unfolding in the region overall”.
Menemsha Films and Kiss Me Kosher producer FireGlory Pictures have postponed the film’s release amid the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict.
Shirel Peleg’s screwball romantic comedy had been scheduled to open in south Florida on October 13 and in select theatres and on VoD and digital platforms on October 20. The parties plan to release it in spring 2024.
In a joint statement Menemsha and Berlin and LA-based FireGlory said, “We are horrified by the events unfolding in Israel. The details of the horrendous attack on the country – on Shabbat morning, as...
Menemsha Films and Kiss Me Kosher producer FireGlory Pictures have postponed the film’s release amid the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict.
Shirel Peleg’s screwball romantic comedy had been scheduled to open in south Florida on October 13 and in select theatres and on VoD and digital platforms on October 20. The parties plan to release it in spring 2024.
In a joint statement Menemsha and Berlin and LA-based FireGlory said, “We are horrified by the events unfolding in Israel. The details of the horrendous attack on the country – on Shabbat morning, as...
- 10/10/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The imminent U.S. release of Shirel Peleg’s Tel Aviv-shot love story Kiss Me Kosher has been postponed in light of the attack on Israel over the weekend by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Menemsha Films was due to launch the German-Israeli production in the U.S. in select theatres on October 13, followed by a wider release and as well as on VOD and Digital on October 20.
The company put out a joint statement on Tuesday with producers at Berlin and L.A.-based company Fireglory Pictures announcing their decision to pull the film for now.
“We are horrified by the events unfolding in Israel. The details of the horrendous attack on the country — on Shabbat morning, as the joyful period of the High Holidays draws to a close — need not be recounted here. Too many innocent lives have been lost. Too many lives are still at risk as the...
Menemsha Films was due to launch the German-Israeli production in the U.S. in select theatres on October 13, followed by a wider release and as well as on VOD and Digital on October 20.
The company put out a joint statement on Tuesday with producers at Berlin and L.A.-based company Fireglory Pictures announcing their decision to pull the film for now.
“We are horrified by the events unfolding in Israel. The details of the horrendous attack on the country — on Shabbat morning, as the joyful period of the High Holidays draws to a close — need not be recounted here. Too many innocent lives have been lost. Too many lives are still at risk as the...
- 10/10/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Launched in 2004 in Kawaguchi City of Saitama Prefecture as a film festival to discover and nurture new talent, the 18th edition of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival was held virtually from September 25 to October 3. Jury and Audience award winners were announced at the Closing Ceremony on October 3.
Luzzu (Malta), directed by Alex Camilleri, received the Grand Prize in the International Competition. The film is about a man who agonises over his decision to choose the family fishery business or a better life for his family. Naoto Takenaka, the President of the Jury commented, “The director’s perspective is not icky, but cool and hot. I think it is irresistible. Luzzu is a great film.” This is the first film from Malta to be nominated for, and to have received, this award.
In addition Rival, directed by Marcus Lenz, won the Best Director award. The film is about the lonely battle...
Luzzu (Malta), directed by Alex Camilleri, received the Grand Prize in the International Competition. The film is about a man who agonises over his decision to choose the family fishery business or a better life for his family. Naoto Takenaka, the President of the Jury commented, “The director’s perspective is not icky, but cool and hot. I think it is irresistible. Luzzu is a great film.” This is the first film from Malta to be nominated for, and to have received, this award.
In addition Rival, directed by Marcus Lenz, won the Best Director award. The film is about the lonely battle...
- 10/5/2021
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival will run online from September 25-October 3.
World premieres of seven local titles head the line-up of Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, which runs fully online from September 25-October 3.
Six of the world premieres are in the Japanese feature competition, and include Battlecry, the first animation to compete in the section, directed by Japanese filmmaker Yanakaya. Set in a fictitious 1980s Japan, the film centres a soldier on furlough who returns to his country, where he finds himself on a mission to investigate the circumstances of a drug called Golden Monkey which is running through society.
Also...
World premieres of seven local titles head the line-up of Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, which runs fully online from September 25-October 3.
Six of the world premieres are in the Japanese feature competition, and include Battlecry, the first animation to compete in the section, directed by Japanese filmmaker Yanakaya. Set in a fictitious 1980s Japan, the film centres a soldier on furlough who returns to his country, where he finds himself on a mission to investigate the circumstances of a drug called Golden Monkey which is running through society.
Also...
- 9/1/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Lgbtiq+ film festival comprises 26 features and four world premieres.
BFI Flare: London Lgbtiq+ Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 35th edition, which will take place virtually from March 17-28.
The festival has selected 26 features, which include four world premieres, six international premieres and one European premiere.
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Receiving their world premieres are Peeter Rebane’s Firebird, a love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War; Daniel Sánchez López’s German feature Boy Meets Boy, about two young men who fall for each other over the course of a...
BFI Flare: London Lgbtiq+ Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 35th edition, which will take place virtually from March 17-28.
The festival has selected 26 features, which include four world premieres, six international premieres and one European premiere.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Receiving their world premieres are Peeter Rebane’s Firebird, a love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War; Daniel Sánchez López’s German feature Boy Meets Boy, about two young men who fall for each other over the course of a...
- 2/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Photo: 'Kiss Me Kosher'/ ‘Kiss Me Kosher’, the directorial debut of Venezuela-born, Israel-raised, German-based director Shirel Peleg, is a film with layers. On its surface, the film is a cute rom-com about an Israeli woman and a German woman getting ready to marry. More intriguingly, the film is international relations, writ small. Shira (Moran Rosenblatt) and Maria (Luise Wolfram), already facing anti-gay discrimination from Israel’s conservatives, find that the sexual orientation controversy pales in comparison to the wounds of the Holocaust, still nursed generations later: Maria, by virtue of being a non-Jewish German, is seen by some as being too biologically similar to a Nazi for comfort. To complicate matters further, Shira’s grandmother Berta (Rivka Michaeli), one of the most vocal critics of Shira’s choice of bride, herself is clandestinely involved with her Palestinian Arab neighbor Ibrahim (Salim Dau). The whole thing is a powderkeg,...
- 2/21/2021
- by Trent Kinnucan
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
‘Mama Weed’ starring Isabelle Huppert, is also opening in France.
France, opening Wednesday September 9
The French box office appeared to be on route to recovery in the first week of September thanks to the launch of Tenet and a wider range of titles on release generally. It now remains to be seen if this momentum can be sustained with further US studio releases remaining elusive and the country on high alert following a spike in Covid-19 cases.
French cinemas this week will mainly be reliant on local films to draw spectators.
This week’s biggest release is Jean-Paul Salomé’s...
France, opening Wednesday September 9
The French box office appeared to be on route to recovery in the first week of September thanks to the launch of Tenet and a wider range of titles on release generally. It now remains to be seen if this momentum can be sustained with further US studio releases remaining elusive and the country on high alert following a spike in Covid-19 cases.
French cinemas this week will mainly be reliant on local films to draw spectators.
This week’s biggest release is Jean-Paul Salomé’s...
- 9/11/2020
- by Ben Dalton¬Martin Blaney¬Melanie Goodfellow¬Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
The French sales agent’s line-up encompasses 11 titles, with 3 market premieres, including the German production helmed by Israel’s Shirel Peleg, a rom-com about a culture clash. After a highly dynamic start to its business activities last year at Cannes with And Then We Danced by Levan Akin (the sales of which absolutely skyrocketed) and Land of Ashes by Sofia Quirós Ubeda, young French international sales agent Totem Films, headed up by Agathe Valentin, Laure Parleani and Bérénice Vincent (read the interview), is really hitting its stride and will be rocking up at the European Film Market at the 70th Berlinale (20 February-1 March 2020) with a jam-packed slate of 11 titles. Standing out particularly on the menu are three market premieres, with Luxor by Zeina Durra (a UK co-production that has just taken part in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, with British actress Andrea Riseborough in the...
Company heads to debut Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris and Sundance after fruitful first year.
Paris-based sales company Totem Films is moving into co-production and has expanded its team with the hire of emerging producer Elsa Payen as part of the strategy.
Payen, who recently completed the pan-European, post-graduate Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris course, has worked on a number of high-profile international productions over the last five years, including Ford v Ferrari, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Sense8 and Dunkirk.
Totem’s move into production comes just over a year after sales agents Agathe Valentin, Bérénice Vincent and...
Paris-based sales company Totem Films is moving into co-production and has expanded its team with the hire of emerging producer Elsa Payen as part of the strategy.
Payen, who recently completed the pan-European, post-graduate Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris course, has worked on a number of high-profile international productions over the last five years, including Ford v Ferrari, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Sense8 and Dunkirk.
Totem’s move into production comes just over a year after sales agents Agathe Valentin, Bérénice Vincent and...
- 1/16/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Peleg’s debut feature, shot in Tel Aviv earlier this year, will depict romantic misadventures that cross all borders. With dialogue in four languages, Shirel Peleg’s debut feature, Kiss Me Before It Blows Up, will depict romantic misadventures that cross all borders, showing what happens when two generations of Israeli women, a niece and a grandmother, fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, respectively. With a script written by Peleg herself, Kiss Me Before It Blows Up is a romantic misadventure crossing all borders, revolving around a subversive love story between clashing cultures and families. When two generations of Israeli women fall for a German woman and a Palestinian man, chaos ensues. What happens to lovers who don't fit but do belong together? The cast of the upcoming feature includes Moran Rosenblatt,Luise Wolfram, Juliane Köhler, Bernhard Schütz, Rivka Michaeli, Salim Daw, Irit Kaplan, Eyal...
- 10/24/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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