Florian Weigl

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Favorite films

  • All My Life
  • I Spit on Your Grave
  • Occupied Palestine
  • Willie

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  • The Last Movie

  • Wild at Heart

  • A Canterbury Tale

    ★★½

  • Queer

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  • Wild at Heart

    Wild at Heart

    Lula loves Sailor and Sailor loves Lula. As much as the world is »wild at heart and weird on top« this is the gospel we must let into our hearts to navigate the recesses of the film’s id. »This is a snakeskin jacket and for me it is a symbol of my individuality and an expression of my personal freedom.« It’s a state which is as concise as it is dreamy: The sexual and parental trauma that Lula went through.…

  • A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale

    ★★½

    Have the same issues here that I had with A Matter Of Life And Death somewhat mitigated by more interesting performances – John Sweet’s Cooper-ish turn into a small town gumshoe – and a sojourn towards Canterbury in which the Archers are allowed to scale up their images, which serves them better than the scattered, bucolic attempts at English romanticism in a countryside which always remains an abstract and was apparently shot around the area, which lends to its fractured…

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    Wrote about the sole Palestinian film in the program. Want to note that this was also the only screening so far for which I saw four cops in the foyer of the cinema.

  • Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    ★½

    If all of your laws for lightning a scene lead you to a place that most night scenes look like a chromed out, lifeless replica of an image, how good were they in the first place? Eggers comes to the image through the text which leads to lots of pretty costumes, but very little intent or motivation to clarify why this needed to be made aside from that he could. But want ≠≠ need.

    The only interesting idea at play…