(Roter Himmel)
Country: GER
Technical: col 102m
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Matthias Brandt
Synopsis:
Two friends take a working vacation on the Baltic coast. The one whose mother's house it is wants to have a good time and meet people; the other can think only of his novel, which his publisher is coming to read.
Review:
Elements of Chabrol's Les Cousins obtrude here and there (another Petzold Ur-text? Journey to Italy also merits a reference), but Leon is a deeply unsympathetic character who one doubts merits redemption from Nadja, a free-spirited ice cream seller who carries an unwelcome secret. As usual with Petzold, direct storytelling is at times broken by striking visual effects: cinders floating in the air, the encroaching glow of a forest fire, bioluminescence in the sea. The main protagonist's solipsism finds its answer in these cries of nature, serving perhaps to warn the viewer that we are sleepwalking to our doom.
(Roter Himmel)
Country: GER
Technical: col 102m
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Matthias Brandt
Synopsis:
Two friends take a working vacation on the Baltic coast. The one whose mother's house it is wants to have a good time and meet people; the other can think only of his novel, which his publisher is coming to read.
Review:
Elements of Chabrol's Les Cousins obtrude here and there (another Petzold Ur-text? Journey to Italy also merits a reference), but Leon is a deeply unsympathetic character who one doubts merits redemption from Nadja, a free-spirited ice cream seller who carries an unwelcome secret. As usual with Petzold, direct storytelling is at times broken by striking visual effects: cinders floating in the air, the encroaching glow of a forest fire, bioluminescence in the sea. The main protagonist's solipsism finds its answer in these cries of nature, serving perhaps to warn the viewer that we are sleepwalking to our doom.
