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We know the story of Lilja from the newspaper. How a 16-year-old girl from Russia is abandoned by her mother and falls in love with a handsome stranger. Hoping for a better future, Lilja moves to Sweden, where she is imprisoned as a prostitute. Lilja is naive and innocent. We know that she is in danger. But Lilja thinks that this is necessary for her survival. The fact that the story of Lilja is not an isolated case breaks my heart all the more! Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4ever is one of the saddest and most moving movies of all time! Lilya (Oksana Akinshina) grows up somewhere in the former Soviet Union. In a desolate prefabricated housing estate, as we do not know it as Berliners. Her best friend is called Volodya (Artyom Bogucharsky) and has to play basketball with a can because he doesn't have a ball. Lilja's mother confesses to her daughter that she is engaged again. Her husband would take her to America, but Lilja couldn't be the same. The daughter is to follow. The mother is heartless. A woman born in a society as cold as it is desperate. The scene in which she leaves Lilja and the daughter runs behind the car, screaming, I could never forget again. I have to think about it and feel a dumpling in my throat. The moment Lilja lives alone at home, her aunt comes to see her. She throws the child out; from now on Lilja is "allowed" to live in her aunt's barrack. Is there a better environment somewhere? Anyway, Lilja won't find them. Instead she is having sniff parties with her friends. Volodya also lives on the street since his father threw him out. He talks about sex, as children do, and Lilja adopts the six-year-old like a big sister. Her way into prostitution doesn't surprise us. Without money for food... 

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One of Asghar Farhadi's guiding themes is to challenge sexual politics in contemporary Iran. Perhaps that is what makes his films so disturbing? But it is also what distinguishes him from the great directors of Iran who began their careers twenty years earlier. So you will find the role models of About Elly here with us in Europe. Do you still remember Roman Polanski's very first feature film? Or Michelangelo-Antonioni's "L'Avventura"? What these films had in common was that they closely observed the dynamics within a group. How does something like group guilt arise? Here it is a circle of friends from the Iranian middle class. They all come from Tehran. Together with their children they went to the sea. A weekend vacation. It was the lively Sepideh (Iran's biggest star Golshifteh Farahani) who invited Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti). No one in the group knows Elly any closer. She is the teacher of her children, that's it. Of course, Sepideh had something in mind and that was to set Elly up. Perhaps to the recently divorced Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini), who has just returned from a business trip from Germany? Elly and Ahmad even have a longer conversation with each other. But the story won't be that straightforward. It strikes a right angle. The group giggles, people talk about Elly's forthcoming wedding. Even Sepideh is involved and we feel uncomfortable. We - the audience - witness something unpleasant. All this seems to go beyond mere blasphemy. Elly leaves the room. There is a crisis and then Elly just disappears. Without a trace. Ellie is just gone. Now all the lies and secrets that exist beneath the surface come out. Elly's bizarre disappearance is said to have had repercussions... And we're already in the middle of a major psychogram!

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There is a lack of empathy these days and instead of empathy there is a WE against THEM. A lack of empathy for the victims of the terrorist attack by Hamas on 7 October on the one hand and a lack of compassion for the civilian victims of the war in Gaza, led by Netanyahu's right-wing extremist government on the other. Only cinema can help! Films like Lemon Tree, which modernises the story of King Ahab from the Old Testament. Ahab covets his neighbour's vineyard. In this case, however, Ahab is the Minister of Defence of Israel, who moves into a house near a lemon grove. The lemons are the only source of income for a widow from Palestine. For security reasons, Ahab claims, the lemon trees are to be cut down. Unlike him, however, his wife sympathises with the widow. A parable of the daily insults, injustices and injuries that agents of Israel inflict on their neighbours from Palestine. An opportunity for us to feel what we at best read in the serious press and at worst on social media. 

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Nothing is more unpleasant when adults behave like children in the movie. When it gets madly greasy, both romp through a park and feed the swans and giggle all the time. Michelangelo Antonioni has expressed his deep insights into how cultivated boredom sucks every life out of man in a series of masterpieces from the 50s and early 60s. Then he accidentally became world famous as a pop art icon. For Zabriskie Point he finally went to Hollywood. Antonioni had found his style. He staged movies of great emptiness, which probably nobody understood completely. They were movies from the upper middle class. Now he felt obliged to make a film about the hippie era. A victim of the late 60's which made so many great authors into "engaged" filmmakers. But Antonioni is not an activist and his talent is not to pick up political topics. Antonioni's figures always seemed so incredibly blocked - paralyzed. But in Zabriskie Point they raise their voices - and sound empty. The actors do not act together. They have narcissistic self-talks. The hero from Zabriskie Point makes a radical impromptu speech (without any motivation) and then decides to intervene personally (without any motivation). Maybe he killed a policeman (but we know what a murder of Antonioni can be like). He steals a plane, flees into the desert and picks up a beautiful girl. He circles her a few times, then both run into the dunes and love each other. In the lowest point of the USA, in Zabriskie Point (note the symbolic content). The sex scenes seem to have been copied from other movies, without any real feeling or even joie de vivre. We simply watch as a couple of lovers roll around in the sand. A ridiculously long sequence. What's the next step? Our hero paints his plane with psychedelic colors. He flies back to Los Angeles and is murdered by policemen. It's not easy to follow Zabriskie Point, but the film is basically that simple. Besides, Antonioni shows how corrupt and corrupt America is (to be noticed by public attacks). It remains to be seen that Antonioni has no feeling for how young people are. In his Italian films, he showed us adults. In Zabriskie Points we see kids rolling up and down the sand dunes.

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Charlie Kaufman ist der Erfinder unter den Drehbuch-Autoren! In diesem, seinem ersten grossen Erfolg, liefert er eine endlose Reihe solcher Erfindungen wie verruchter Paradoxien und überraschender Wendungen. Ganz listig und langsam - ohne billige Effekthascherei

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Ordell thinks long and hard. The camera lets him, just holds on to it. "It's Jackie Brown!" Odell is right. It was Jackie Brown who stole the $500,000. It's unusual that a black gun dealer in the movie even gets the chance to think. With Tarantino, however, things are quite different. He has filmed the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, in which all the protagonists are clever. A question of survival, the smartest one will make it. Jackie (Pam Grier) knows that she has to look naïve in order to survive. Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson) would kill her immediately. She's cunning, like everyone else in Tarantino's movie. The bail bondsman (Robert Forster), the AFT agent (Michael Keaton) - they all know what happens. Just ask if they're fast enough to keep up with Jackie. With Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino not only proved that he was more than a hype! His third film remains his best! Never again did he arrange such perfect scenes as those between the constantly stoned ex-Con (Robert de Niro) and Ordell's lover (Bridget Fonda) discussing a photo in Ordell's booth. Never again did Tarantino stage such a precise production! Although mistakes in suitcases have been popular since the 60s, it's not the plot that convinces here. It's the structure of the film. Jackie Brown, 44 years old, works for the worst airline as a stewardess. She also smuggles money for Ordell. Then Beaumont (Chris Tucker) is caught and the AFT (personified by Michael Keaton) is on her heels. She is arrested. But Ordell sends the bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) to buy her out. Here begins the great love story, the heart of the film. Slowly the affection between the two grows (in a worse movie a sex scene would have spoiled everything). Jackie fears to be murdered by Ordell. She has to kill him first, but she's not a killer. In Gunde Max knows that Jackie is using him. Nevertheless, her feelings are real. Jackie is helpless. She can't help it. We get to know all these characters (and in most thrillers they just get to know each other). I think the fact that Tarantino lets us participate in his characters makes the difference! That's what makes his movies "cult movies". Tarantino's strengths are his dialogues and his timing. And of course his casting! Pam Grier, the sex bomb of the Blaxploitation cinema of the 70s, seems tired and desperate here. It still attracts everyone's attention, but Jackie knows life. Robert Forster as a security agent plays the role of his life! A quietly working professional and a sensitive, melancholic lover. Samuel L. Jackson seems even colder and more dangerous than ever before and Robert de Niro can be simply stupid. One of the best is the almost invisible performance of Bridget Fonda, who is only interested in one thing: being high. At the time, some people said Jackie Brown was too long. They're just the ones who can't cope with old-fashioned movies. On the other hand, I wish Tarantino's characters would talk to each other, cheat and live much longer.

Deutschland im Herbst 

In 1977, the end of the Republic was believed. The RAF terror reached its unique climax and therefore the German filmmakers of the New German Cinema also tried to take a stand. Germany in autumn is more than just a film. It is a document of the times. It begins with the (state) funeral service for the president of the employer Hanns-Martin Schleyer. Murdered by the RAF. Revenge for the suicides in Stammheim. 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Holy Mountain  

If he looks back today, I think he'll be able to say he did anything. His name is Alejandro Jodorowsky. He went around with a circus, drew comics, worked with the greatest surrealists and made movies. He's not organized, he makes the kind of movies that Hollywood shouldn't make anymore. Not because of the success, but because he has to! Jodorowsky is a driven one! Holy Mountain resembles an explosion of images, filmed with burning intensity, so they will be remembered forever! A thief climbs the high tower and meets the alchemist at the top of the rainbow room. The alchemist has gathered a kind of sect around him to set off for the holy mountain to become gods there. It was John_Lennon who convinced his manager Allen Klein to support Jodorovsky's film financially. It was a fatal deal because Jodorowsky lost control of his work. But Jodorowsky used only half of the budget and returned the second part! It is said that he had lived with the crew in a commune, taken LSD and been looked after by a Zen master. The film begins in a white room that looks like a mosaic. The alchemist (Jodorowsky himself) in a black coat and two women kneeling are present. He shaves their heads and the opening credits begin. Then we see a gang of little boys with green genitals throwing stones at a tied man (Jesus?). In the first part the characters are introduced episodically, while in the second part the journey to the holy mountain follows. The first part looks like a walk through a colorful, explosive labyrinth, the second part seems almost contemplative. Finally we are awakened from our dream by Jodorowsky. Unfortunately, because we would have liked to sleep even more!