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lauralhI 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.
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.
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cool.
Date: 2002-05-31 11:59 am (UTC)