With her cinema hit, Karoline Herfurth 2022 hit a nerve. Not only was the film gathered almost 1.6 million people in the German cinemas, the tragic comedy on body pictures and the role of women in the 21st century was also largely celebrated. Now Herfurth continues her film – and takes over the direction and one of the leading roles again. The result was successful: Herfurth makes up with a beautiful one successful to the predecessor And expands it in numerous aspects as sensible as it is strong.
Karoline Herfurth continues her cinema hit with a beautiful one-and tells new stories that focus on women
Beautifier starts three years after beautifully and immerses again in the life of some figures known to us in Berlin. Among them are Sonja (Herfurth) and Milan (Friedrich Mücke), who, after their preliminary happy ending, are back at a trap point and now want to save their relationship with couple therapy. There is also a crisis between Vicky (Nora Tschirner) and Franz (Maximilian Brückner). While Franz is moving from one mountain summit to the next on a self -discovery trip, Vicky jumps towards a new colleague, Trevor (Malick Bauer) in her loneliness.
Julie (Emilia Schüle), on the other hand, has built up a new mainstay after her therapy and starts as an recording manager at a big TV show. However, her boss Regine (Anja Kling) makes her life difficult, especially when she is molested by one of her colleagues. Nadine (Anneke Kim Sarnau), who learns from her husband’s side (Godehard Giese), also includes the elite circle of friends of Regine. Her daughter Lilly (Emilia Packard) is currently learning in Vicky’s school class that not all women enjoy the same freedom, while her brother Julian (Albert Lichtenstein) has to deal with toxic masculinity in Trevors. And so the circle closes. .
Look at a trailer for a beautiful one:
Beautiful – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Beautiful is more uncomfortable – and more current than ever
The ensemble in beautifully introduces us to many figures, stories and fates that are not only interwoven on the outside, but also combined in their basic theme: the role of women – and men – in a patriarchal society. Karoline Herfurth is not afraid to leave the Feel-Good level of the German mainstream comedy in the sequel she wrote more and to take a darker ways than in part 1: more critical and themselves To position so uncomfortable and clearly on certain topicslike never before.
The many everyday stories almost become educational work and statements, which often wave as unsubstantiated with the fence post as in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. What often comes as a white, heteronormative and for many well -known feminism is still with the range on which films like beautiful or barbie move, but still A gift in a timein which women have to fear their rights again in Germany. The fact that we have not only arrived where we sometimes believe that we are believed must not only find Lilly with a heavy heart when she is confronted with her parents’ secrets and takes a look outside our own box, but also the audience.
It can be overturned that at times there is reaching deep into the kitsch and cliché criche and the figure density is density proud term of 132 minutes brings stumbling down in the last third. Perhaps more than Martina Gedeck and Joachim Król should have been dispensed with in order to really do justice to the remaining characters and their individual fates.
In the end, however, Herfurth manages to combine the large and diverse ensemble into an overall picture and to once again imagine the model of a world as it might be, When everyone pulls together and don’t look away. The credited credited credits can only serve as an additional statement if numerous female connoted names fill out the various technical and creative departments involved in the production. Herfurth, with a beautiful one, questions that this model does not have to remain a snapshot or a distant dream.
Beautiful has been running in the cinema since February 13, 2025.