If your time on earth is running out there is no need for haste. This seems to be the credo of the elder Alvin in The Straight Story who tries to outplay our accelerated present with an ancient John Deere Lawn Tractor. The road as a cinematic space, a space of reconciliation and reunion. Other than the road movies of New Hollywood Lynch utilizes the road not for conveying a sense of freedom and frail independence. He throttles the engine of…
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Scorched Earth 2024
Distrustful glances, frail solidarity and resolute professionalism. The underworld of Berlin seems even colder and unforgiving in this sequel about Trojan the criminal work horse looking for his next big score. It’s a story drained of any verve or affection, focusing on the procedural elements and fatal consequences of a heist gone wrong. Committing to the unbearable suspense of banality while reflecting the late capitalist sphere of today where any moral standards and codes erode because everything goes all the time, it’s a hopeless film in hopeless times.
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Suspiria 1977
Ballet dancer Suzy from the US of A is visiting a monstrous german supercity from hell. Is it Freiburg? Munich? Both? Gothic Schwarzwald castles, nightmarish art nouveau spaces and lederhosen squareheads dancing the Watschentanz in a beer palace. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. At least Suzy didn’t have to witness the devouring of a blind piano player by his German shepherd in the center of Königsplatz. Of all places. Where Adolf and his paladins used to say…
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The Killer 2023
A middle aged man in a beige sports jacket, looking like a German Rentner, taking self-optimisation to the extreme. Michael Fassbender portrays the monklike murderer in a resolute manner. Sometimes he lets hints of soft irony shine through his stone-cold composure while the bittersweet jangle pop of Johnny Marr and Morrissey is running through his head. Aseptic aesthetics in aseptic times, Le samouraï in the digital dark age.
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