Ohjaus:
Dietrich BrüggemannKuvaus:
Alexander SassSävellys:
Dietrich BrüggemannNäyttelijät:
Anna Brüggemann, Alexander Khuon, Isolde Barth, Andreas Döhler, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Rüdiger Vogler, Mark Waschke, Monika Anna Wojtyllo (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
“Sometimes I think we should break up,” Michael tells Dina, with whom he has spent five happy years. Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… Thirteen episodes map out the protagonists’ coexistence after Dina dispels her boyfriend’s misgivings and takes a firm decision on the future of their relationship. Dietrich Brüggemann once again presents a critique of social values and attitudes, this time focusing on the generation of 30-somethings who appear to have it all, yet fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Despite its characteristic barbed tone, the provocative filmmaker’s new picture is a testimony of love and the responsibility that comes with it, likewise of the endeavour not to lose sight of it. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(lisää)Arvostelut (3)
Brüggemann is a festival name I remember thanks to Stations of the Cross, and when I see it in the programme I pay attention. I would not recommend him to devote his creative time to comedy in the future, though, German is not a funny language and it takes a lot of feeling for a German film to be really funny instead of just awkward – as far as I can remember, perhaps only Maren Aden in Toni Erdmann was successful. Brüggeman, unfortunately, was far from it. It has bad timing, a weird theatrical stylization that makes the German seem even more artificial and dry than if the characters were speaking normally, and when it does manage a laugh-out-loud moment once in a while, it's due to a lack of sense of proportion, like the shock at the ultrasound, which is repeated four times to be sure, probably so it wouldn’t go unnoticed or something.
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Something tells me this review will write itself. Did the two hours spent watching the screening of Nö just fly by? Nö. Did I find the dry German humor in the movie even slightly funny? Nö. Did I care about the characters and their problems? Nö. Would I universally recommend this movie to all audiences? Nö. However, not to cast aspersions, I did find one of the thirteen chapters really funny and it made a good point, and that was the funeral episode. Even so, that was just a small burst of excitement in an otherwise really dry movie that also felt interminably long. On the other hand, most of the people in the theatre were really laughing, so it is probably just not for everyone. Am I eventually going to give it a second chance? Eh. Nö. [KVIFF 2021]
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If you are not 30-something and don’t have any kids, this would probably be a waste of time for you. No plot, extremely dry comedy that lacks chemistry between characters, with utterly awful music and it’s more like marriage guidance counseling session than a movie. The jokes are often absurd, simply nonsense… I must honestly say that, to my surprise, half of the cinema was having fun, a quarter was sitting there dumbstruck, and the last quarter actually walked out.
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