The Edge Of Seventeen 

Do you like teen comedies that don't tax your intelligence? Like The Edge Of Seventeen? Then this is your film list! - Sure, I'm a child of the 80s. Maybe that's why I became a video librarian? Of course I still know the best dialogue from the teen comedies of the time - although I forget pretty much everything else. The brain just works in a miraculous way. The Edge Of Seventeen feels like an homage to the 80s with biting humour and a big bittersweet heart. Kelly Fremon Craig, who makes her directorial debut as well as writing the film, seems to remember all the difficult, angst-filled moments of being a teenager. That narcissistic phase where everything that happens to you seems so insanely important! The worst thing: to create an identity, to survive school! In this sense, The Edge Of Seventeen is much darker than its 80s role models. 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE The Guard 

It's a fact: if you put Brendan Gleeson in any role, he'll bring it to life. In this case, he plays a cop, the Gaelic word for policeman being guarda. His name is Sgt Gerry Boyle and we meet him as he searches a victim's clothes for drugs and quickly pockets everything. Boyle is not a bad cop, just a bad one. At least he loves his mum, which is a good sign. Her name is Eileen Boyle (Fionnula Flanagan) and she's dying, but whenever Boyle visits her, she comes back to life. And when they talk, they basically say the F-word incessantly, as if it were a sentence sign. Boyle drinks while he works. He never overstays his welcome and makes friends with prostitutes. But all this takes an unpleasant turn for Boyle when the straight-laced McBride (Rory Keenan) is transferred from Dublin to the country. He, of all people, is to become Boyle's partner (and Boyle hates everything from Dublin). A big drugs deal is on the cards. Half a million is at stake, give or take, and the FBI sends Everett (Don Cheadle) to Ireland. Everett is an even worse partner! Boyle, moreover, is not a real racist, but he is naive in his dealings with black people. He believes that Everett must be an expert on life in the ghetto, as Boyle has seen on television. Gleeson's gift as an actor lies precisely in his ability to make all these outrageous statements.

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Ida 

We travel back to Poland around 1960, to a rural area. There is a rather remote monastery where 18-year-old novice Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) lives. Little is said behind the walls, neither while eating, nor during Anna's work on a statue of Christ. Have Anna take her vows in a few days. But before she returns to the city to visit her Aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza). We experience her with curious eyes in the tram and finally Anna faces her exact opposite: Wanda drinks, loves men and wants nothing to do with family. Wanda explains to Anna that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish. But her parents were murdered. Although she would rather send Anna back to the monastery, Wanda decides to search for the traces of her relatives with her niece. Ida is a journey into the past: that of the German occupation, but also into the dark Stalin era. 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Lilja 4Ever 

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... 

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Asghar Farhadi - About Elly 

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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