Netto

Cecil says...
Social realism from East Berlin, focusing on a man in his 30s struggling in the 'new' Germany since the wall came down, and his son, a 15 year-old who suddenly reappears in his father's life after a couple of years' estrangement. Kind of Wim Wenders meet Lars von Trier style. Good story-line as the son teaches his father how to get on in life, while being cringingly hopeless himself in matters of love (scenes with the prospective girlfriend in the park, in the flat, in the attic bring back awful memories of nervous moments with girls so many teenage boys must go through). East Berlin man's ex-wife is a sweetie but she's gone off with Bernd, the flashy Westerner with money, job and fast car. What does the ending mean? God knows, but it's a good film...
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Bea says...
Cecil wondered if this film would be too much about the lives of men to interest me, but it did. And it made me want to go out and buy the back catalogue of Peter Tersching, East Berlin's answer to Johnny Cash (apparently).
***1/2