SIFFy

[lauralh]

I missed the film festival here last year due to excessive Europage, so I was determined not to miss it this year. I finally made it to a film last night.



Sass is apparently based on a True Story, about these German auto mechanics during the depression who turn to burglary. They break into banks in the dead of night with acetylene torches and make a killing, basically becoming folk heroes in the process (there's a very Robin Hood-esque scene where they put money in everyone's mailbox).

Anyway it was pretty entertaining, although as usual with True Stories a bit slim on character development. The brothers weren't too bad, and even the cops seemed like real people, but that was about it. And let's not even get started on the Nazis. I understand there's no way in hell that a German film could make any Nazi seem human, but they were just like, I dunno. Not even alive. More like automatons told to KILL.

Comments

German!!

[ex-alissa29.livejournal.com]

That's really cool. Thanks for the review. :)
I aimed to see at least one German film at SIFF, but I already missed the one I really wanted to see - Das Experiment. Criminey.

cherman films r00l j00

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

The last German film I saw was over the summer, The Legend of Rita. Did you see it? It's set about ten years before the Berlin Wall came down, about these 20-something Marxists who are all trying to force The Revolution in West Germany. Anyway they get caught and escape to East Germany, where the government protects/refuses to extradite them, gives them jobs in factories, etc.

It's pretty interesting, especially the contrast between the young people's idealism and happiness at being in a True Socialist Experiment, and the actual East German who just want to live their lives in peace...

Re: cherman films r00l j00

[ex-alissa29.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen The Legend of Rita, it sounds very good though. The last German film I saw was The Marriage of Maria Braun directored by Fassbinder.. It's really cool because the protagonist is a woman who goes from pathetic and mourning over her soldier husband after WWII to climbing her way to the top of the social ranks by manipulating everybody and using sex as a tool. It's very interesting to see how she changes. As my German ex-boyfriend says about it, 'see iss a respressentation of gerrrmany during die Nachkriegzeit.' :)

cool.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

and my other film buff friend says that amiee and jaguar is quite good.

Re: cherman films r00l j00

[i-dread.livejournal.com]

the Maria Braun is one of my favorite flicks.