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Vier Minuten (Four Minutes)

This extraordinary film from Chris Kraus seems about to follow The Lives Of Others and break out of Germany for international success. 300 prints have just opened in China.
Its about a piano teacher in a German prison who meets a young girl there and sees something in her. She sees talent and she sees something of herself.
Moving between the now and flashbacks to her youth the stories of the two women unfold.
Violence occasionaly erupts and it is both brutal and ugly, not the packaged agro-porn we sometimes see in rich colours and slo-mo, this is ugly bursts of red against a very gray film.
The use of colour is interesting, especially after the discussions about 300. Here the prison is very subdued and even blue hardly appears until you get to the exit. In the last scenes a rich palette appears and it makes a very vivid contrast.
Amidst what is a superbly acted and involving film there are also moments of real humour, the audience laughing out loud.
There is even a heart warming moment at the end despite the story-line moving in the opposite direction... you'll have to see it!
I was lucky to have a drink with Hannah Herzsprung, the star, afterwards and she is a real charmer, halfway between Audrey Tautou and Bjork (perhaps) and absolutely tiny. She said she had 6 months of piano lessons at 4 hours a day and 3 months of kick-boxing to bulk up a bit.
I would expect that this will now get releases around the world. It's had an amount of festival success and is opening here in Australia in the next couple of weeks.
Highest recommendation. See it as soon as you can.


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Topic - Vier Minuten (Four Minutes) - dave c 14:08:22 04/29/07 (0)

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