Center of My World (Die Mitte Der Welt)
Wrong movie (2016)
Drama, Family, Queer Themes/Interest
Not In Collection
#854
8*
Seen ItYes
(9/27/2017 dekkoo)
IMDB   7.2
115 mins Austria / German
Dekkoo  Region 1
Louis Hofmann Phil
Sabine Timoteo Glass
Jannik Schümann Nicholas
Ada Philine Stappenbeck Dianne
Svenja Jung Kat
Inka Friedrich Tereza
Sascha Alexander Gersak Michael
Nina Proll Pascal
Clemens Rehbein Kyle
Aurelie Thepaut Lehrerin
Nadja Zwanziger Mutter des Brocken
Thomas Goritzki Lehrer Hänel
Director
Jakob M. Erwa
Producer Boris Schonfelder


Seventeen-year-old Phil has felt like an outsider as long as he can remember. All Phil has ever known about his father is that he was Number Three on his mother’s long list—third in a series of affairs that have set Phil’s family even further apart from the critical townspeople across the river. As for his own sexuality, Phil doesn’t care what the neighbors will think; he’s just waiting for the right guy to come along. But Phil can’t remain a bystander forever. Not when he’s surrounded by his mother, Glass, who lives by her own rules and urges Phil to be equally strong; his sister, Dianne, who is abrupt and willful, with secrets to share; his uncle Gable, a restless mariner, defined by his scars; his best friend, Kat, who is generous but possessive. And finally, there is distant Nicholas, with whom Phil falls overwhelmingly in love—until he faces the ultimate betrayal and must finally find his worth . . . and place in the world. Release: September 2016 (Germany)
Edition Details
Original Title Die Mitte Der Welt
No. of Discs/Tapes 1

Notes
Center of My World (Die Mitte Der Welt) is not just another "coming of age" film - heaven knows, there are enough of these floating about· This film not just about Phil's first gay affair, a limerence with Nicholas, but of Phil's awareness of his very unusual family as he morphs from childhood to adulthood· Just about everything is cinematically well done - photographically, script, acting - except, of course, the captions; font is too small, and white making them difficult to read against the film's picture background·
Center of My World is said to be an adaptation of the YA (young adult) novel by Andreas Steinhöfel.