Letterboxd — Your life in film

The quiet girl kann vermutlich sehr leicht missverstanden werden. Die Leere, Perspektivenlosigkeit und das Bedürfnis nach Liebe, die die gerade heranwachsende Cait so fest im Griff haben, porträtiert der Film mit wunderbareren aber auch kompromisslosen Bildern. Die langen Passagen gefüllt von Stille, sowie teils statisch wirkende Shots verfügen über die Fähigkeit den Zuschauer einen wahrhaften Einblick in Caits Leben und sogar ihre Gefühlswelt zu geben. Die Zuschauer beginnen sie als Charakter zu verstehen, ihre Verhaltensmuster benennen zu können und eben…

A burning sensation of a range of a hundred emotions. From gut wrenching lows to ecstatic heights. Sun and concrete presents a social commentary, criticizing a system and a society which is based on solely capitalist values and ideas. It's a painful portrait of the loss of adolescent innocence painted by utter hopelessness. Sun and concrete doesn't simply try to find someone to blame but brings out feelings of guilt from within its viewers sitting in the audience comfortably hiding…

I think it's absolutely wrong to underlie the illusion that Briony is simply a bad person and that therefore all form of anger can and should be directed strictly towards her. This is a complete fictitious black and white view of a character which leads to a projection of such ideals onto the world and the story as a whole while we should all be well aware that life is, was and will always be a deeply complex construct not…

"What's wrong with being a separatist?"

So late so soon is a documentary about an artists couple having to come to terms with their mortality and the cruel yet ineffable process of growing old. In a way they both are separatists, but they are not alone- they are separate together. Their decade spanning creative career has allowed them to see things differently, to follow a lifes philosophy untangible to many others. Thus being a blessing but most definetely a curse…

I believe that Woyzeck holds a fairly interesting and meaningful story, while however being stylistically rather presented as if on stage and not with the liberation of a camera and filmset. The play this film was based on and of which it is almost a word-to-word adaption was written 1836 by german playwright Georg Büchner who died prior to Woyzecks completion. One might wonder how a story ,which was definetely a social commentary and critic of the societal circumstances of…