Corpses on the roadside.

A Japanese woman travels in the footsteps of their dead parents through Allgaeu: After a triumphant train through the global festival scene is the ambitious cinematic drama "The red dot" in the cinema.

 

The feature debut of a Japanese graduate of the Munich Film Academy, with modest resources mainly in Bavaria and rotated by a small dedicated lending now called "The red dot" in the cinema - and it sounds ever to supersympathisch.

According to the world responded enthusiastically to various film festivals. Producer Martin Blanke Meyer: "Everywhere there was great audience reaction, for example, in Cairo, in Goa, in Gothenburg. There was a lot of tears, because the end of the film is very touching." In the courtyard, the home of the German and especially film art scene in Munich, won the factory in October 2008 the prize, and Wolfgang Hoebel festival fell in his report on blogs ONLINE over the moon: "The denial of drama can be great art."

It seems therefore a must, at least for visitors and notorious film fans leaden Selbstbeblogsung. To all others, but get the warning: This film background with speed - at the center of a Beziehungstaifuns in which "it is always quiet and clear" is (O-Ton director Marie Miyayama), is the victim of a traffic accident and a boy, his Vaterknatsch with Motorradraserei compensated - comes on the Kriechspur therefore. Or, as Wolfgang Hoebel lectures: "The strengths of German films are often just the sheer atmospheric and in the denial of Action." In plain English: In this "gem for the soul" ( "Cinema") is a very dry bread durchgekaut. This is called then like "strictly formal" because after cinema's luminaries such as Ozu or Bresson or Dreyer tastes.

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The contents of hire begins with the sentence: "The young Japanese Aki Onodera is disturbed by dreams, from the long-buried memories of her early childhood up." Sounds not bad, because it captures so well all sorts of exciting Gruselgarn. After Anfangsthrill happened but not much. The cute Japanese woman gets, given the pre-business career and the relationship to an uncongenial Schnösel the yuppie crisis and travels into the Allgäu (Miyayama: "The outer path Akis is also a way to their innermost, reaching areas of the collective subconscious of all people. ") to on a map with a red dot marked at once the father, mother and brother in a car accident died. It gets them in a common destiny of said motorcycle speeder, which is also his cross in the form of a brittle wood craftsmen father has to bear. The Japanese turn on roadside corpses lie there. Which in turn are a devout fragile Japanese ritual farewell ceremony dedicated.

For this constellation coined Wolfgang Hoebel hr past the grenade expression "an almost Kleistsche coincidence of fate." Unfortunately, now daily soaps and private broadcaster TV Games Kleistsche some coincidence abgeschaut, so that this conflict here in spite of industrial art as Verbrämung now commonplace artistic confection lost. Since then reconciles the whole supersympathische look around no more.