Saturday, August 04, 2012
ROAD TRIP
Today's film was Fatih Akin's fine early film
I am seeing this because I already loved his Soul Kitchen and wanted to see the earlier films.
This is a wonderful, happy and upsetting oddysey across Eastern Europe by a romantic and sometimes hapless german math teacher in pursuit of the love of his life although, at times, we are not sure who that might be, nor he.
Things happen, wildly and quietly. These are sometimes scary and often whimsical.
Does he make it to Istanbul? Does he find his love?
That is the whole point of the picture as well as all the stuff that happens along the way.
The Times review also points out that this is a sort of postcard for a part of the world that we never see, both the countries and the undersides of them.
I would happily see it again. There are a lot of lols and also some get-up-out-of-the-chair-and-walk-around-moments. 4 out of Netflix5.
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