Drama, Baby!.

François Ozon's new film "Ricky" starts as a gray social drama, it becomes absurd comedy and ends as a dreamy, melancholy tale. Does not fit together? Oh doch.

 

It is a shame that so many journalists after the premiere of "Ricky" on the thought this year's Berlinale, the mystery of the film to be betrayed. Most viewers will now know what to expect when they buy the ticket - which they still view movie on a beautiful evening, the experience of a stunning movie of the recent surprises but were robbed. Yes, the baby, which is in "Ricky", has a secret, but what it is, at least will not reveal here.

Not that this film may have fallen each. Even the Berlinale audience was deeply divided - a camp for the whole thing was silly, banal and boring, the other for brilliant, poetic and exciting.

The French director Francois Ozon, well known for Over satire ( "8 Women", "sitcom") or complicated melodramas ( "5x2", "The time is") it makes the viewers also not easy.

Quite unexpectedly, he "Ricky" as triste, gray social drama begin, so no joy in life knows: A single parent factory worker (Alexandra Lamy) with a small daughter (Melusine Mayance) tries to degenerate in the suburban apartment block on the rounds to come can be from new colleagues (Sergi Lopez) pregnant, tried with him as a new family and throws him out, as she believes that he abused the baby.

Oh dear. That is the kind of substance with which the Belgian Dardenne brothers ( "The Child", "Lornas Schweigen") regularly distribute a bad mood (and deservedly cinema all possible prizes); Ozone does it first so he had all the forbidden things, which otherwise he may as well: cool distance rather emotional rollercoaster, a world in gray instead of color.

Drastically - phantastisch

The changes abruptly with the incredible twist that the film after not even half-way takes. When the baby as a very special child, we will also "Ricky" as a special film.

From the sadness will be a study on the bord, fantastic comedy alive and divorced, but still everything seems to be good for the victimized heroine. Better if it had itself can not imagine, unless it is actually all just before. Ozone irritates the fantastic from up to the farce, always bordering on silliness, and turns his film towards the end in a melancholic, dark fairy tale.

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What is real and what is not, not to dissolve ozone. Everyone is on its own, its conclusions from "Ricky" to consider the film to hate or to love.

Mainly to see him on. Already because of something else just has not seen. So you know then but ozone.