FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Intermission 

Here comes one of these movies that pretend to be something really great! It's happening overnight: A TV producer demands more "reality" during a rabbit race. A cop's car is stolen while he's investigating a drug case. And so forth. Something GREAT is always happening! Like the author worked on pills. Intermission offers enough ideas for three bad movies. But the result is a good film. Intermission is a black comedy or an extremely black comedy set in Dublin. leading role Colin Farrell (whom nobody likes today, although he plays in so many great movies as no one else). Leading part? In Intermission this is not so easy to define, because there are so many characters that we lose Colin Farrell's track more than once. In any case, even more tracks are set than in the big role model, Pulp_Fiction. A mix of romance, fraud, kidnapping, bank robbery (...). Just like his role model, Intermission begins with cute dialogues and then turns to violence. Everything comes from Lehiff (Farrell), but his companions are also introduced immediately. John (Cillian Murphy) hates his work at the supermarket. Oscar (David Wilmot) is desperately looking for a friend (his goal: older ladies). Deidre (Kelly Macdonald) dates a bank manager (with wife wife) and Noeleen (Deirdre O'Kane) meets at a single party for older ladies - of course Oscar. To summarize the whole plot must be regarded as something of impossibility as described. Somehow everyone is connected with everyone - often also romantically. Ah, very important, Sally (Shirley Henderson) must be mentioned, who plays a nice variant of the Hollywood motif that an ugly duckling just has to take off his glasses to become a swan... Of course Intermission is a debut by John Crowley. At first I tried to bring order into intermission, but then I just let him get away with it all. The best thing about Crowley's production is the ease with which he simply shifts gears. From romance to kidnapping, then back to moments of cruel truth (for example, when an elderly lady talks about her deepest feelings). His stars like Farrell or Macdonald he effortlessly integrates into his ensemble. All in all, intermission functions virtuously, combining farce and outbreak of violence, self-confidence and happiness. But does brown sauce really taste good in coffee?