A charisma-deficient hipster wanders around Berlin in a mumblecore transplant that lacks spontaneity or edge
Shot without much point or particular style on digital black-and-white, this debut for German writer-director Jan Ole Gerster seemingly aims to transplant a mumblecore aesthetic into Berlin, with all the requisite aimless hipsters, whimsical touches and rambling narrative dips and dives; but someone forgot to add spontaneity or edge. The simultaneously thin and overdetermined plot follows floppy-haired, charisma-deficient Niko (Tom Schilling) as he perambulates about town. It's a day that starts with him splitting up with a girlfriend and losing his driving license and ends with an elderly drunk (played by Michael Gwisdek, one of the movie's few plus points) recounting painful memories of Kristallnacht. A couple of mildly amusing comedy-of-embarrassment moments click, although the running gag about Niko's frustrated search for a simple cup of coffee feels like student film-writing at its worst. This...
Shot without much point or particular style on digital black-and-white, this debut for German writer-director Jan Ole Gerster seemingly aims to transplant a mumblecore aesthetic into Berlin, with all the requisite aimless hipsters, whimsical touches and rambling narrative dips and dives; but someone forgot to add spontaneity or edge. The simultaneously thin and overdetermined plot follows floppy-haired, charisma-deficient Niko (Tom Schilling) as he perambulates about town. It's a day that starts with him splitting up with a girlfriend and losing his driving license and ends with an elderly drunk (played by Michael Gwisdek, one of the movie's few plus points) recounting painful memories of Kristallnacht. A couple of mildly amusing comedy-of-embarrassment moments click, although the running gag about Niko's frustrated search for a simple cup of coffee feels like student film-writing at its worst. This...
- 1/17/2014
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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