Tag und Nacht

A story done a a thousand times, 2 young women moonlighting as prostitutes. That happens a lot in real life and it is also a common fantasy. Unfortunately though our 2 heroes in this film don't bring much to the game. It's not the actors faults (well it is too) it's mostly a fault of the script that is amazingly empty, one might call it a quickie: no emotions involved, let's get over it.

But then, something like that doesn't work as a movie. Making a film, any film, is a laborious thing to do that takes many months and sometimes years out of one's life. Doing that on the premise of a bland and uninteresting script and story line is wasting everybody's time.

So we're having two 'students' - and calling them 'students' one would at least expect some kind of intelligence, some thoughtfulness, but that doesn't happen. The one girl (Anna Rot) constantly giggles no matter what, the other one (Magdalena Kronschläger) seems to be a slightly deeper character but there's only hints of a more complex inner life, not enough by far to make anything out of it.

There is another character in this film, the 'pimp', written and acted so colorless that he is forgotten the second he is off screen. He shall rename nameless.

Then we have the 'clients' of our wannabe prostitues. Again lifeless people with no real personality - cheesy and full of (movie) cliché.

In the end this film is not worth watching. It's all empty calories.

If the purpose of this movie was to show that sex for pay is demeaning and unappealing, it succeeded. But that seems an unambitious goal. It seems like the relationship between Lea and Hanna should be the main theme to be developed, but we never get a real sense of what the relationship is actually about. How deeply do they care for each other? Why? The movie provides no grounding in their relationship ante, so the effects of their actions land in a vacuum.

There is an interesting scene where the more adventurous of the two declines to engage in a sex act that the less adventurous one is willing to perform. This offers an opportunity to explore their damaged sense of boundaries. . .but the opportunity is squandered. I guess there was a need to proceed to a graphic depiction of the next demeaning job.

I guess I can give it marks for consistency: it ends as shallowly as it begins.

It is true this story has been done before. Still the acting makes it worth watching.

Had potential, but the subject has been covered before, and this doesn't shed any new light on the matter. Some interesting moments, but that's about it.

Disappointing.