After changing the name of this monthly write-up last time, I also decided to adjust the structure a bit this month. Hope you'll like the changes.
Seen on Silver Screen
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Ein Tick anders (2011) Andi Rogenhagen - Germany
A beautiful, humourous film about a teenage girl suffering from the Tourette-syndrome. As an exception from a numerous amount of other films dealing with "retarded" people, this film never gets sulky, nor does it look at the "retard" as un-normal people who you can laugh about, like many Salman-films (Indian superstar, for those of you who don't know him). It reminds of last years award-winning German "Vincent Will Meer" in various aspects, but is lighter and more realistic, and for me easier to relate to, because the leading character is a teenage girl. It's also predictable in many terms, but that doesn't degrade it to an "okay" film only, in my opinion.
Rating: 7.0
The Infidel (2010) Josh Apignanesi - UK
I heard some people from New Zealand complaining about Hanna arriving at their cinemas after about 6 months - now this one (like most rather unknown, non-American films) reached Flensburg after about one year! Not that I had anticipated - in fact, I didn't know anything about it until I decided to watch the trailer on my weekly what's-running-at-the-repertory?-surf. It looked funny, and as we're... 1/8 (?) jews, my sister and I decided to go check it out. It was all right, better than many critics thought it was. Ah, critics, they're good at a lot of things, but they should really update their attitude towards comedy.
The film throws a funny perspective on Judaism, Islam and multi-culti London. I was also funnily surprised to realize that the family was Pakistani, meaning I could understand them talking Urdu.
Rating: 7.0
Joadeiye Nader az Simin (2011) Asghar Farhadi - Iran
My expectations were high for this "Masterpiece from the Berlinale", to quote renowned German magazine Der Spiegel. After both director Farhadi and the leading actors had taken the German film festival by storm, the film was eventually distributed to almost every indie cinema in the country - and yes, some day it reached the far north of my home town. One of the minuses of the film is, that it's extremely dialogue-loaded, which might begin to annoy one after a while. However, it deals with many important and interesting issues of the Middle East, especially the rights and lives of women. The actors are none less but brilliant, and the direction is very realistic and relatable.
Rating: 8.4
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