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surreal
palanko6 June 2019
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This film is quite a surrealistic piece about It's based on Kafka, different from what I imagined but very lynchian, very strange. The photograpy is great, the hanging car is georgous, I loved the music!
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4/10
I hoped for more
Horst_In_Translation30 June 2015
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This is "Human Body", a German 17-minute short film from slightly over 10 years ago. The writer and director is Tobias Frühmorgen and he worked on a couple short films between 2000 and 2008. However, since then he has not come up with anything new, so he may have given up on filmmaking. But he is still young, so who knows. When he directed "Human Body", this film here, he was not even 30. The main character is a doctor, who seems to have severe struggles himself. Maybe this is what this film should have entirely focused on instead of his patients. They could have kept it at 10 minutes, but it may have been a more focused movie this way. The story about the little boy or the patient early on, were not too memorable. Very early on, we see the doctor looking at a glass window at his patients in a way as if they were lab rats. Well.. he certainly does not have the last laugh at the end. All in all, it's nod a bad film by any means, but it's also not as good as I hoped it would be looking at the rating here, even if the lead actor does a solid job. Not recommended and it isn't doing Kafka's work justice I have to say.
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decent
Kirpianuscus23 September 2018
A Kafka adaptation. Interesting for atmosphere. And for the performance of lead actor. The weakness - the feeling to see an improvisation. Noble as purpose but not convincing. Because something missing. Short, a decent film about a doctor and his demons, appearences and nice crumbs from Fellini universe.
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