Wunderschön

The movie "Wunderschön" is about five women of different ages who are confronted with their self-image and the demands of themselves and others. This German film directed by Karoline Herfurth debates and discusses the situation of women in today's world. Five women in different situations, a teenager with body acceptance issues, a middle-aged frustrated wife looking for more than being the mother of two young children, an attractive elderly housewife who wants to focus the rest of her life on satisfying/pleasing herself, a young model who struggles with the requirements of modeling fashion agencies and a middle-aged teacher who refuses to have a relationship with a man for fear of falling into the wife-husband model.

The movie starts out with very interesting premises, with legitimate questions about the different situations of women, but in the second part of the movie, the director chooses to follow the Hollywood cliche, predictable and without originality. The ending is like the movies of "Love Actually", "Four Weddings and a Funeral". It's really sad and disapponted that a movie with so many possibilities chooses the easy way of cheap romantic drama.