Rundfunk: Jachterwachter
- 2020
- 1 Std. 29 Min.
Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuRonnie, once a child star, is chased by two madmen and a raven. To hide he gets a job with the lonely owner of Camping HIVO. The guests there go crazy finding a star in their midst. Things g... Alles lesenRonnie, once a child star, is chased by two madmen and a raven. To hide he gets a job with the lonely owner of Camping HIVO. The guests there go crazy finding a star in their midst. Things get absurd.Ronnie, once a child star, is chased by two madmen and a raven. To hide he gets a job with the lonely owner of Camping HIVO. The guests there go crazy finding a star in their midst. Things get absurd.
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The film revels in its low-budget aesthetic with every shot underscoring its scrappy and do-it-yourself nature. From deliberately cheap set designs to awkward camera work, the lack of polish isn't just apparent: it's part of the film's appeal. This rawness gives it a uniquely unsettling quality that is simultaneously off-putting and strangely captivating.
The setting is a dystopian wasteland: barren, empty and profoundly depressing. This desolate atmosphere seeps into every scene creating a bleak tone that paradoxically complements the humor. The filmmakers have crafted a world that feels deliberately soulless, amplifying the absurdity of the characters and their actions.
Discussing the acting performances here feels almost irrelevant. The exaggerated and over-the-top portrayals fit seamlessly into the film's absurdist style. Whether the acting is "good" or not is beside the point; it's about whether you can vibe with the bizarre world the film creates.
In the end Rundfunk: Jachterwachter is an out-of-the-box cinematic experience that had me laughing at times while leaving me confused at others. It's memorable for sure, but I'm still not entirely certain whether I liked it. It's weird - both the film and my feelings about it. But in a way, that's its strength.
Story development is quite fresh. There is some character development. Violence, oh yes. Supporting characters like Jonas could have had some more background for variation in the jokes. Editing could have been slightly better, my take would be to make it more over the top.
This is not really one for the cinema. Yet, I don't understand the 1 ratings at all. If you sat through the whole movie, then it couldn't have been that bad.
Think of some of the whackiest and politically incorrect situations that you've seen on Dutch TV, and this film will take it up a notch. Not only the characters and events are completely out of this world, so is the humor. Jokes about child abuse, animal cruelty, anorexia, pedophilia, homosexuality, bloody violence and several blatant cases of sex-shaming: it's all in there, no one is spared, and no topic is sacred enough to escape the axe of ridicule. Well, perhaps racism, because colored jokes are conspicuously missing. Sign of the times, I guess.
It is probably acquired taste, because I laughed very hard at some of the crudest jokes, but the rest of the theater (mostly millenials) was clearly less convinced about this film's comedic merits. Not that every joke works, by the way. Kids who drink and curse all the time, it's funny for a while but then it gets a little stale. Especially the Biblical jokes fall a bit flat on their face, and could have been much racier. We have a bit of a Dutch tradition when it comes to religious jokes (as a famous Dutch comedian once said: "that which assumes a form of power must be allowed to be ridiculed"), but here, it sadly amounts to little humor.
Not that the actors are to blame for this, as Yannick van de Velde, Tom van Kalmthout and the rest of the cast know exactly how to deliver their dry-witted performances that sells the absurd tomfoolery just great. Also props to director Rob Lücker and cinematographer Joris Kerbosch, for capturing all the zany stuff in beautifully stylized images, making the sun-scorched camping look like a 'polder-version' of There Will Be Blood (yes, I really made that comparison). The cinematography also contains the more subtle visual jokes, such as a TV that looks so old that you can barely believe it ever existed, or a playground that is nearly overgrown.
Most movies that are spin-offs of series usually end up being a longer and bigger budgetted episode of that series, but this one is different. Cast and crew already sharpened their teeth on the TV series Rundfunk (which I definitely want to watch now), but they were bold enough to go into new territory with this spin-off movie, taking it in a very different direction. With its balls-out humor, I throroughy enjoyed this movie, but it certainly isn't for everyone. Still I say: keep up the good work. We need more of this inspired lunacy.
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- WissenswertesOriginally it was supposed to rain the entire time on the camping, but the budget wouldn't allow it, so the makers conceived of a perpetual drought.
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Figurant: Nederland lijkt toch een beetje op India. Het is hier best dichtbevolkt. Mijn tijd in Zweden deed mij anders denken.
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- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 995.992 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 29 Minuten
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