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There are backwoods sheriffs, mechanics, remote cabins and - most importantly! - cars. The characters, of course, serve neither purpose nor meaning in U-Turn. Take Sean Penn's Bobby, who is missing two fingers and is dogged by bad luck. When he leads his Mustang into town from Ariz, he meets the loathsome Darrell (Billy Bob Thornton). A mechanic from the backwoods. Full of inbreeding, of course. And while the vile Darrell is wrenching on the Mustang, Bobby goes to town, where everyone is evil and cruel. and narrow-minded and hateful and over-sexualized. In short, the city is hell. He quickly meets the feisty Grace (Jennifer Lopez), who invites him home (so he can fix her curtains). Already, husband Jake (Nick Nolte) storms in with bloodshot eyes. The obligatory argument ensues before Jake asks Bobby to do a contract killing on Grace.... U-Turn spins on and on, offering great actors and mannered images popular in the 90s. As befits a good B-movie, we quickly discover that the characters are not driven by their character, but serve the plot alone. U-Turn is a comic in this sense.

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British humour is baffling to us, yet it works with compelling logic: you put a few characters in a series of situations and ask yourself: how might they really have reacted? Take *Life of Brian*: what would have happened during a typical pre-Christian stoning? What if Pontius Pilate had had a lisp?

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Where are the limits of the good or on New-German of the do-gooder? That's the test arrangement of Anders Thomas Jensen's Adam's Apples (which, by the way, ranks third in our list of the most rented DVDs in our video store!!!). At least on the surface. Performance by the neo-Nazi Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), who just got out of prison and was assigned to the local priest for his rehabilitation. You can't expect much from Adam, who exchanges the crucifix in his sleeping chamber for a portrait of Adolf Hitler. In his file he is described as EVIL in capital letters. But I don't think that the priest Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen) even accepts this term EVIL. In Ivan's world there is only GOOD. A pathological optimist. For the priest it is clear that Adam needs a goal in life. That's why he gives him the first task: Adam is to bake an apple pie and pick the apples from the tree in front of the church. But this apple tree is first attacked by crows, then gnawed up by worms and finally struck by lightning. A sign from God? 

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There was no Nouvelle Vague in Spain after the Second World War. On the contrary, Spanish cinema was virtually non-existent during the Franco dictatorship. After Franco’s death and the end of his regime, it was all about La movida madrilena – across every cultural sphere! Cinema flourished, discovering eccentrics and madmen. To this day, it seems that the Spanish have not forgotten what life is like under a fascist dictatorship. Unlike other European countries, Spain has no extreme right-wing parties vying for power, and has been producing excellent films for many decades.