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Roar Skolmen's debut feature is a surreal, odd and generally weird film in vein of Dusan Makajevs «Sweet Movie». This was a complete break with the prevalent social realism of 1970's Norwegian cinema.
To say that this film was considered controversial at it's time is an understatement, with several prominent critics asking if the Norwegian state should continue to finance films if the quality was so low. It has two times won the dubious honor of being declared the worst film in the history of Norwegian cinema. It contents for it's time was and still is considered both shocking and dilettantish. A real life «virgin» birth, scenes of an authentic cremation and a alien abduction is some of the highlights here, interspersed with documentarian interviews with youths in the streets of Oslo about sex and social issues.
Director Skolmen has stated that he was inspired by Ken Russell and he is prone to the same cinematic hysteria as the british provocateur.
With that in mind, «I ungdommens makt» or «Junior Heads» is recommended viewing for the adventurous aficionado of cult cinema!
To say that this film was considered controversial at it's time is an understatement, with several prominent critics asking if the Norwegian state should continue to finance films if the quality was so low. It has two times won the dubious honor of being declared the worst film in the history of Norwegian cinema. It contents for it's time was and still is considered both shocking and dilettantish. A real life «virgin» birth, scenes of an authentic cremation and a alien abduction is some of the highlights here, interspersed with documentarian interviews with youths in the streets of Oslo about sex and social issues.
Director Skolmen has stated that he was inspired by Ken Russell and he is prone to the same cinematic hysteria as the british provocateur.
With that in mind, «I ungdommens makt» or «Junior Heads» is recommended viewing for the adventurous aficionado of cult cinema!
Marlene, the feature debut of director Andreas Resch, follows closely the tropes of German, modern horror. It's all here. Run-down apartments, the naturalistic cinematography and fractured minds. We follow Marlene a woman in here late twenties as she moves to Berlin for a new job and the possiblity to start her life with a fresh slate. She gets to know her neighbor Flo, an socially awkward, but apperantly harmless guy. However things soon take a turn for the worse...
Resch delivers a film here in the vein of austrian director Michael Haneke and Berlin's master of low budget horror Jörg Buttgereit, albeit without the latter's penance for gore and explicit shocks. Resch proves his ability to weave an engaging and tense thriller with very limited resources. All backed up by the simple yet effective camerawork of cinematographer Matthias Grunsky but most of all by the performances of lead actors Cordula Zielonka and Thomas Clemens.
This claustrophobic and at times grotesque chamber play of a chiller, might not offer the phantasmagorical visions of Kevin Kopacka's «Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes» and Julia Ostertag's «Dark Circus». A trend that seems to be prevalent in German indie horrors of the last, five years. But still Resch leaves the viewer with an unsetteling, at times melancholic experience.
Resch delivers a film here in the vein of austrian director Michael Haneke and Berlin's master of low budget horror Jörg Buttgereit, albeit without the latter's penance for gore and explicit shocks. Resch proves his ability to weave an engaging and tense thriller with very limited resources. All backed up by the simple yet effective camerawork of cinematographer Matthias Grunsky but most of all by the performances of lead actors Cordula Zielonka and Thomas Clemens.
This claustrophobic and at times grotesque chamber play of a chiller, might not offer the phantasmagorical visions of Kevin Kopacka's «Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes» and Julia Ostertag's «Dark Circus». A trend that seems to be prevalent in German indie horrors of the last, five years. But still Resch leaves the viewer with an unsetteling, at times melancholic experience.