It’s Wednesday morning and I have no university today, so I decided to write about the last two movies, which I’ve seen on Sunday on the movie festival. The first one is Der Rote Punkt, a Japanese-German co-production which plays mainly in Bavaria. The japanese student Aki decides to go to Germany, to find out more about how her parents and her brother died there when she was still very young. Through coincidence, she meets the family Weber, where she stays for her search. But her presence opens a lot of conflicts within the family and opens old wounds, while a connection between Aki’s family and the Webers slowly becomes apparent.

The movie is a quiet and melancholic piece of work and is also definitely a good one, that I can recommend without hesitation. But on the other hand it has been pretty much hyped and won a good amount of awards also and personally, I don’t think it’s as good as it is sold to be. There are too many parts, where I (and my friends agreed on that) really only could guess where some reactions of the actors were coming from and often we were missing a logical connection between the scenes. I think 10-20 minutes more playtime with a focus on connecting scenes better would have helped a lot. It’s worth a watch nevertheless.

The second movie on Saturday was Non-Ko, a movie that I already had written the desription in the festival-booklet  and also had to do the speech for. This time my speech went far better than the first time, even though we had 7 times the guest count than in memory Stealers. So I’m pretty happy with that. The movie is more or less a portrait about Nobuko, a 36-year old woman, who isn’t succesful in a job and has no family – so she breaks both expectations that the society has in a woman with her age. The consequences and her struggle are shown in really beautiful images underlined with a fitting soundtrack with many variations of the same theme. If you like calm movies, this one’s definitely for you!

Another day, another movie watched. This time, I was also responsible to do the speech before the beginning of the movie and was a bit nervous about it, but as it was sunny and warm outside and in the middle of the day, nearly noone was there – only about 10 people, which made my my job easier So I said a few words about the film and the coming events of the festival and took a seat to watch the movie. It’s more or less a genre crossover between sci-fi-, spy- and action-movie and although it’s not a really good one, it was still fun to watch. But I’m pretty sure, that was the least good film in my festival-watching-plan. Tonight is the festival-party, so I’ll go to help with the preparations now – have a good night!