Year: 2009
Directors: Thomas Sieben
Writers: Thomas Sieben & Christian Lyre
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Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 6 out of 10
Thomas Sieben's Distanz is a curious, stylish and enigmatic little film, about a quiet gardener called Daniel Bauer, who can't seem to shake the nasty habit he has for casual murder in his local park. The film begins with a montage of Bauer's daily routine at the botanical gardens where he works, we see him raking leaves and hosing down his tools, before heading to the park after work to lie in the sun and enjoy some peace, away from his demanding boss and the pretty secretary who makes eyes at him. Later that night he plays games on the bridge over a motorway, dropping stones onto the cars that pass below, which is our first hint that he's anything other than a shy loner.
Thing is, Bauer isn't a happy person.
Directors: Thomas Sieben
Writers: Thomas Sieben & Christian Lyre
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 6 out of 10
Thomas Sieben's Distanz is a curious, stylish and enigmatic little film, about a quiet gardener called Daniel Bauer, who can't seem to shake the nasty habit he has for casual murder in his local park. The film begins with a montage of Bauer's daily routine at the botanical gardens where he works, we see him raking leaves and hosing down his tools, before heading to the park after work to lie in the sun and enjoy some peace, away from his demanding boss and the pretty secretary who makes eyes at him. Later that night he plays games on the bridge over a motorway, dropping stones onto the cars that pass below, which is our first hint that he's anything other than a shy loner.
Thing is, Bauer isn't a happy person.
- 7/28/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Berlin -- Punks, killers and other upstanding citizens are the stars of the Berlin International Film Festival's 2009 Perspectives on German Cinema section.
Director Lars Jessen returns to his youth -- Germany of the 1980s -- for his Perspectives entry: "Dorfpunks." Based on the cult novel by Rocko Schamoni, it tells the story of a group a punk rockers who move to a tiny village in rural Switzerland. Jessen's tongue-in-cheek take on the '80s is familiar to fans of his debut, "The Day Bobby Ewing Died" (2005), which won the Max Ophuls Prize.
There's little to laugh about in Lars-Gunnar Lotz's psychodrama "For Miriam," which examines how a teacher is undone by an accident that results in the death of her best pupil's sister.
"Jedem das Seine" (Each to his Own) also looks at crime and punishment as two brothers meet up after years apart: one as a police officer, the...
Director Lars Jessen returns to his youth -- Germany of the 1980s -- for his Perspectives entry: "Dorfpunks." Based on the cult novel by Rocko Schamoni, it tells the story of a group a punk rockers who move to a tiny village in rural Switzerland. Jessen's tongue-in-cheek take on the '80s is familiar to fans of his debut, "The Day Bobby Ewing Died" (2005), which won the Max Ophuls Prize.
There's little to laugh about in Lars-Gunnar Lotz's psychodrama "For Miriam," which examines how a teacher is undone by an accident that results in the death of her best pupil's sister.
"Jedem das Seine" (Each to his Own) also looks at crime and punishment as two brothers meet up after years apart: one as a police officer, the...
- 1/13/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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