Category: ESSAYS-EN
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“Poor Things” Essay: The free and uncensored life of Bella Baxter
Yorgos Lanthimos starts where most other film-makers have already left off. He is not afraid to take unconventional ideas and package them in such an original way that they develop a life of their own – as if a foreign body suddenly begins to mould itself into something new. Anyone who has not yet seen…
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#LFF2023: “All Of Us Strangers” Essay
EXT. A NEAR-EMPTY TOWERBLOCK IN LONDON The dark blue sky aches as much as the tears shed by the angels. A silhouette appears next to the flickering evening light as the horizon begins to burn. Melancholic music sets in while the skyline of the metropolis burns itself into the memory as much as Adam’s sadness itself.…
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“Barbie” Essay: What was I made for?
Maybe I’m just an idea of what it’s like to be human. There are moments when I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing. I think I’m just stereotypical and not good at anything. But maybe most of the stuff we think that make us aren’t important at all – maybe we are just…
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Essay: Vienna waits for us “before sunrise”
Imagine it is June 16th of summer ’94. We meet, it’s a chance encounter on a train ride and almost like in a movie. We are strangers to each other and yet I recognize this glint in your eye, which will tell me you have a plan. Strolling through Vienna together before the sun rises: A…
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Essay: “Blue Jay” and the longing of a past love
saudade (noun) – a nostalgic longing to be near again to something or someone that is distant, or has been loved and then lost; “the love that remains“ Nobody follows us on our journey forever. Even those people we think will stay by our side forever will leave us at some point. No matter how…
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“303” Essay: The german answer to Richard Linklater
It was the last day before summer break, in the year when life turned upside down and Jule and Jan fell in love. An indie song played on the radio as the engine started. Golden yellow fields sped past them in seconds as the van drove along the country roads, and the longer they stared…
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Essay: (500) Days of Summer or why she isn’t the one
Things are going well, we don’t label our acquaintance, don’t ask each other out and although we like the same things, that doesn’t make us soulmates. But after all, we’ve been Sidney and Nancy for months now, due to understatement lies unspoken “we’ll talk about it later”. We will never talk about it, above all…
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Essay: What it means to be the worst person in the world
Sometimes I think I am the worst person in the world. The longer I think about it, the more I start to realize that we all are. We jump from main character to spectator back and forth, constantly search for our place in this universe while craving unlimited validation and search for that one person…
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Normal People vs. Conversation with Friends
Turn the time back to May 2020. The quarantine was putting a test on all of us, it felt quite the same every day and every night. And as that repetitive pattern replayed itself again, I suddenly stumbled upon a show that gave everyone a new perspective and hope during that trying times. Based on a…
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The Emotional Euphoria of “Waves”
Few independent filmmakers of the last several years have had as interesting of a short-spanned career thus far as Trey Edward Shults. Starting off in the early 2010s as an intern and production assistant on Terrence Malick’s films “The Tree of Life”, “Voyage of Time” and “Song to Song”, Shults steadily created short films with…