Saturday, February 7, 2009

Holidays for masochists.

Fun for journalists, the Berlinale in February rare gray parat. But apart from bad press, the ladies of the many critics of competition films strictly rangenommen: social Tale "Ricky", the Iranian woman drama "About Elly" and the war thriller "storm."

 


The best part of the Berlinale is the envy of Daheimgebliebenen. Is a Superjob as Berlinale Rapporteur, you get every year, for example, from the remote editorial colleagues to hear: Whole days and nights half lümmelt ye cinema in padded chair, in between her skin a few lines into the computer and throws it at night you on great parties Kate Winslet and Clive Owen, Heike Makatsch and Christoph Schlingensief in the neck.


In truth, this film festival just for the sheer enjoyment masochists. This is due to the fact that it is quite accurately estimated 3000 other Berlinale rapporteur to one at the cinema-Herumlümmeln, in-the-computer-hacking and Kate Winslet, charming fun no right to allow us, in any event, Give me, push , they are ceaselessly and babble on about a one that you all kinds of suffering.


In the basement torture of bad manners


The other source of pain is how I find the hardest, evil, rude press department of the World. From each of the times even more Berlinale Rapporteur is less than geschuriegelt looks bad and castigated. Who in this in a luxury hotel next to the Berlinaleplast kept press office occurs, lets all hope. Because he remembers now that the perceived temperature by 15 degrees to cool, and he will never again on the French arrogance in Cannes or the cheerful Italian in Venice Larifari complain. It is bad enough, if one only wants to collect his passport. With maximum unkindness and Prussian Sachbearbeitergriesgram you to pay the accreditation fee verdonnert and then gets his passport hingepfeffert wordlessly.

Worse is if you missed anything or not filled, and the ladies of the press line for help. Her smile is a Zähnefletschen. They look at you like you from a very high amount of the worm sees that one is immediately crushed. Then you will hardly have made his request (just as it is my decision), on such a disgusting manner angeschnauzt, dismissed, dull and taught at a later call reference (which of course is not even accepted), that you are making These Folterkeller bad manners of the German and the hysterically bad mood never again to enter.


In the cinema, the hell with other funds weiterzelebriert. In "Ricky", the competition entry by French director Francois Ozon, plays Alexandra Lamy is a single mother and factory worker named Katie, almost as spitefully, and overwhelmed totalgefrustet three may look like the ladies in the Berlinale press office. After all, they, however, seems still a bit of fun with your sexuality. We see Katie with her young daughter in an ugly social housing ghetto with a duck pond and live on a motorbike to school rattle before it on a conveyor belt with chemicals handled at the factory and toilet with a Spanish colleague vögelt.


Corrosive real social Tale of winged baby


He is obviously very nice, ruckzuck Katie is pregnant and has her daughter next to the Spanish guy, his name is Paco, Ricky and the baby in the house. Unfortunately, however, discovered the mother of a bruising day at the shoulder blades of the small and accuses Paco infant maltreatment. The father looks shocked (or guilty conscious?) The width.



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Up to here tells a normal ozone, corrosive real social drama. Suddenly, however, tortures us his fairy tale film with black magic. The baby has not been beaten, but from his back grow wings. First it flutters around in the nursery and Rummen against the wall, then it floats through the supermarket and is on media attraction, and finally the miracle baby entfleucht before television cameras running on the duck pond in God's outdoors.

Ozon's film can be a fantasy of small daughter Katie, a Nightmare of a strained mother or as a criticism of the media wonders horniness read better "Ricky" is not. The coolness, the concept of this film director in "Swimming Pool" (2003) or "The time that remains" (2005) excelled, this blunt is cold, the performers come from a warm, no matter the images of fluttering baby care in the cinema for much puzzled Gepruste and Hohngelächter.


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As is the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi in "About Elly" already with caring for his characters. Farhadi shows a society friends from Tehran at a merry trip to the sea, where you deal with children and the bag and baggage in a deserted seaside villa set up because the promised accommodation is occupied. The focus of interest and many are Frotzeleien Ahmad, who actually live in Germany (Shabab Hosseini), and Elly, a kindergarten teacher (Taraneh Alidousti), with clear intentions have been invited: From a German woman divorced Ahmad and Elly, a Couple are.

About Elly "shows beautiful, friendly, urban people, an infantile dome game. Until the matter with one fell swoop into disaster tilts. A little boy floating lifeless in the sea, men and women hurl themselves desperately into the troubled gray tide, to save his life. And Elly is all of a sudden disappeared.

It is a bit longwinded, like "About Elly" now lies a few life heroine of the title reveals how the holiday society when crying, crying and morally Daherwispern must watch. You do not quite understand what strange impeccable standards for women in the Iranian mullahs monitored society and whether these standards, the director now endorsing or criticizing, but you can see and feel the agony of suddenly not so nice people to deal with small and the big lie to make life hell.


A loving father and Massenvergewaltiger


In Hans Christian Schmid's "Storm" is the Balkan war of the shutter all the horrors. The actress plays Kelly Fox in this film in English, Danish-Dutch-German co-production a Prosecutor at UN tribunal in The Hague, a Serbian slaughterman General wants to put behind bars. The film begins quite torn with a family on the beach scene in which a father tenderly with his two daughters albert, soon you will see how the guy from the police out of bed is torn: The seemingly so dear Papa is for murder, torture responsible for mass rape and war lord, here the process is done.

Schmid, through films such as "Crazy" (2000) and "Lights" (2003) achieved a reputation as stubborn, sometimes a bit bourgeois narrator raufgeschafft. In "Storm" succeed him at all slowness thrilling, but also tormenting thriller in which a very intelligent way about law and justice will gegrübelt. The Prosecutor Hannah wants the right thing, but it occasionally does the wrong thing. So they are at odds with an unreliable witness, who at a local date in the occupied Serbian part of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a liar turns and reacts so angry that the disturbed man committing suicide.

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It is astonishing and depressing and very precise, Schmid as the work of the UN investigators described their impotence over war criminals and mafia godfathers, their strange compromises with politicians in Brussels and Serbia. The Prosecutor Hannah finally met the sister of the dead witness, a young mother who lives in Berlin, apparently the most terrible kind of over weeks and months has been mistreated.

The actress Anamaria Marinca plays them from fear and murderous memories ravaged woman sensationell forcefully, with alert eyes and nervous ticks in a fresh face among kurzgeschorenen blond hair, especially her art is to make the movie to a Schmid tormenting event.

At the end of the widerfährt victims Marinca shown no satisfaction: A stale deal with the policy takes precedence. The story of "Storm" is a so with that one as a spectator with a great resentment from the movie goes. The targets, however, does not violate the Film Festival, but against the torturers of the world as Schmids Serb-Kamerilla: against seemingly very normal guys who are capable of, their fellow human beings such a horror anzutun.

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