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Funny crafts journeymen in Berlin: The Hungarian-Romanian contribution 'Katalin Varga' carves a massive revenge scenario, the U.S. film "Happy Tears" knocking on the neuroses-kettledrum and the Chinese factory "Forever Enthralled" feilt in a masterly biography of the artist.

 

In Berlin, where even the proudest city of fashion designers such as master butcher look, it was not so with elegance. The people on the street who are now in February snow storm and thick hulking einmümmeln and their fondness for boots amazingly ugly to show, and also the film critic is not necessary for the
Michelle Pfeiffer perfect example of competitive appearance in "Cheri" is often quite rude abkanzelten.

It was really Glamourtag Tuesday. As Stephen Frears' "Cheri" is the Chinese contribution "Forever Enthralled" by Chen Kaige a feast of historic elegance in sober schwelgerischen, as measured with the circular images. With Frears Schnörkelpracht pays homage to one of the Belle Epoque, when Chen Kaige (of decades ago, "Farewell, my concubine" turned) to the worldwide success of the Beijing Opera in the first half of the last century.

The film tells the story of the great singer Mei Lanfang, who in the thirties in New York and has been hailed a Western audience for the Beijing opera enthusiasts, it is indirectly tuned with debt that the theater Schlau Meier Bertolt Brecht through the Beijing Opera Watch his infamous alienation theory has been suggested.

"Forever Enthralled" is a so-called Biopic, a cinematic biography. We learn about the hero who was born in 1894 as Mei Lanfang boys eager to know, admire his first major acts as an artistic woman gifted performers far and wide, see the encounter with his impresario and his wife, are experiencing the melodramatic love story with the most beautiful men and his actress Beijing Aufbruch gen Americas. But always, even when the brave Back afraid of the artist against the Japanese occupiers Lockrufen are mentioned, the Beijing opera plays the main role art.

That is one beautiful, because it's great looks and sounds madness, but it is, with all due respect for the excellence of foreign cultures, even mistaken exhausting. This explains that the film almost two and a half-a lot of viewers fled: unlikely before the grand magic pictures, but before the oberschrillen music.

Well, the Berlinale audience, but then stop for more hands, boor, which proved quite a long time the final applause for the Hungarian-Romanian competition film "Varga Katalina" by Peter Strickland. In this work can be seen just before the end of a man with long black hair and hagerer Bauer Hackebeil to design a hand, "because of the bears," he says and moves on waldwärts.

'Katalin Varga' says the rustic-archaic story of a woman of today. It must be ten years with her son ignominious leave their village, because come out is that the boy is not the child is her husband. In the horse-drawn carriages interrupt the mother and her unsuspecting son on a revenge tour. The heroine Katalin (Hilda Peter) wants to kill the two men, once they have raped and geschwängert when she was traveling by Anhalterin.

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The lead role in Peter Strickland movie does not play the people, but the mountain scenery of the Carpathians, in which they move. Dark woods, billowing cornfields, streams and hills are often so harsh aneinandermontiert as if the editors of the movie Hackebeil used.

The twists of the plot are also raw and angular, and surprisingly, the soundtrack booms it threatening like a bad fairy tale. For all defects in the fine, but developed the film takes an fierce brunt of the callousness we can say that they are Eastern European, or pompous, that it is biblical. An exceptional film from Klotz 'Katalin Varga' in any case.

Unfortunately, a little more helpless with the sledgehammer zurechtgeklopft is Mitchell Lichtenstein's U.S. family drama "Happy Tears." The director Lichtenstein, son of the famous painter Roy Lichtenstein, for example, can the son of a famous painter in his film, which severely disrupted, and drogengeschädigt ever arm off and using a circular saw cuts in the forearm. Huh, huh, this is toplustig! The main show "Happy Tears" two sisters überkandidelte (Parker Posey and Demi Moore) who are suddenly in Pittsburgh to meet their father with dementia themselves.

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We see how the man in his underpants to vollgekackten bathtub naked and dragged abgeduscht is the unequal sisters beglotzen the hashish smoking or may mitansehen as one of the two with the muskelbepackten, barely 18-year-old neighbor boy begins an affair.

Everything pretty drastic and difficult to override, as if you Jonathan Franzen "corrections" with a bit of "American Beauty" and a touch of Woody Allen to spice it up. The nicest brachialkomischen in this movie is Demi Moore again, in a film in which, exceptionally, they are not the overarching test of ambition zerfressenste person in front of the camera. It is, quite the contrary, almost the only human being in a parade of zombies behämmerten.

During the demonstration at the Berlinalepalast where you can contribute to the elegance by Stephen Frears and Chen Kaige would not look right, there was still a lot of laughs for "Happy Tears." The Golden Bear at the Film Festival, but it imposes more of the film with the Hackebeil.