The Sandbergs’ preppy son (Gierszal) is on a school trip during which he bullies easy target Dominik (Scheicher) and his only friend, the bespectacled Natalie (Juri). Her middle-aged son ( Bernhard Schutz) and his demanding wife (Harfouch) need to travel to Paris but can’t get a plane so they decide to drive (“no Nazi cars!” she barks into the phone at the agent that needs to find her a rental car). ![]() The opening’s precious pedicurist, Claude ( Michael Maertens), is on his way to his favorite client, the elderly Mrs. ![]() It’s a shoo-in for further festival play and has an outside chance of theatrical pickups by niche distributors not afraid of films that cannot be reduced to a simple marketing slogan.įinsterworld feels like a sprawling mosaic in the first reel, as new characters and situations keep being introduced, but as the story progresses the relationships and the characters’ predicaments crystallize quickly and clearly. The film will be released in Germany in October and had its international premiere at the Montreal film festival. A sophisticated screenplay and beautiful camerawork both support a very solid line-up of actors that includes veterans such as Corinna Harfouch (Frau Goebbels from Downfall) and up-and-comers such as Jakub Gierszal ( Suicide Room), Carla Juri ( Wetlands) and Shia LaBeouf lookalike Leonard Scheicher ( Sources of Life). Looking at several loosely connected stories, the film explores German identity and the inability of people to be truly themselves and admit to others who they really are or what they really want. A pernickety pedicurist who’s on his phone while driving is stopped by a hulking traffic policeman with a heart of gold at the start of Finsterworld, an unusual but very effective dark fairytale that’s the fiction debut of German documentary director Frauke Finsterwalder.
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