I participated on the making of a student film in Paris last year. My friend who was the director of that little piece of unpretentious nonsense also wrote the script and had the lead part. He is a rock enthusiast and could not resist putting in some embarrassing lines like "So you like Sonic Youth !?" in a scene where he has a chance meeting with a girl in a café. This populist German film with huge international distribution presents the same give-aways; me and my other friend who helped making the short flick in Paris consequently burst into laughter seeing Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei at an Oslo cinema yesterday. I think this represents what the movie stands for. It's all about t-shirt slogans and such. The lead cast could easily be members of trendy "radical" rock groups who want to change the world. Why must young idealists wrap their message in this rock-cum-politics package? That said, the film is not too boring and it has an attractive lead actress who sometimes looks plain thanks to the banal "dogme" camera-work. Dommage...
Review of The Edukators
