German
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Schultze Gets The Blues
Schultze is a recently retired German miner facing impending death and leading a god-awful supremely sad and boring life. His only outlet is playing polkas on his accordion which he does with a fatalistic reluctance until one day he accidental tunes his radio to a station that is playing zydeco music which combines blues with…
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Futuro Beach
Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motorbikers racing across the sand dunes and when they reach the end of the beach discard their bikes and clothes and run off into the high rolling waves. They soon get caught in riptides and despite…
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I Feel Like Disco aka Ich fühl mich Disco
Young Florian is a fat kid but his size only seems to be an issue with Hanno his very fat dad who claims that even he wasn’t that big as a child. On the other hand Monika his mother adores him and indulges in dressing up with him in 70’s clothes and prancing around their…
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WHAT A MAN
There’s a real sense of irony in the title of this German romantic comedy written and directed by the leading TV actor Matthias Schweighöfer, as Alex the protagonist (that he also plays) is rather an immature wimp. Well, he starts out that way as he allows his self-starved uptight model girlfriend to literally walk over him.…
