Sick of Myself
March 21, 2023
The film releases of the week
Narcissist & Narcissist: The relationship between Signe (Kristine Kujath Thorp) and Thomas (Eirik Sæther) corresponds to a single competition. The fact that Thomas is currently in the limelight as an up-and-coming artist puts Signe in the shade even more noticeably. At first she tries to downplay her partner’s successes. When the focus does not shift in her favor and Signe realizes that she does not hold a candle to Thomas and his circle of artists intellectually and artistically, she enters into a very personal, self-destructive fight for attention: It begins with a spontaneously claimed nut allergy. When that doesn’t last, Signe orders ominous pills from the dark web that provoke massive skin irritations. Signe is soon disfigured – and close to her goal. What a debut! In “Sick of Myself” (Odeon, Rex), Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli bundles his own observations of life into a nasty body horror satire that is as amusing as it is disturbing. Nothing for the faint-hearted. sick!
Sex and language or sex equals language. With “Fear of Flying” and “The Devil Personified: Henry Miller and I”, the writer Erica Jong, born in 1942, settled accounts with American Puritanism and its consequences for feminism and a happier coexistence. In his film “Erica Jong – Breaking the Wall”, Kaspar Kasics shows what Jong was and is about: truth and creativity instead of false reserve and romance.
Lars Eidinger is one of the most prominent actors in the German-speaking world. This is not only due to the frequency of his appearances in the theater, cinema and television. His unusual roles, which he often fills in an expressive and physical way, also contribute to his presence. In addition to interviews with companions (including Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and the theater director Thomas Ostermeier), Reiner Holzemer’s “Lars Eidinger – To Be or Not to Be” (Cinenova, Filmpalette, Odeon) gives many intimate moments from theater rehearsals in Berlin and Salzburg and film shoots in Paris, in which he opens up and makes vulnerable, insight into Eidinger’s way of working. Interviews with him let us participate in his way of thinking. This creates the image of a sensitive and extreme artist who certainly has vanities, but is also down-to-earth and reflective.
Kim only knows biographical fragments about the life of her mother Lore: As a Jewish child, Lore escaped being murdered by the National Socialists. Her own mother died in a concentration camp, her brother fled and never returned. Lore raises Kim and her son Tom alone in Berlin in the 1960s. But Kim rebels early and leaves. Tom suffers from depression and commits suicide. At the start of shooting, Lore is over 80 years old, and her relationship with her daughter is shaped by things that have remained unsaid. Kim wants answers, Lore is closing. About this silence, Sandra Prechtel’s “Love Fear” (Filmhaus) tells of experiences so terrible that one life alone is not enough to process them. But also about the lifelong and – despite all injuries – successful attempt by mother and daughter not to lose each other.
Also new in the cinemas: Charly Feldman’s lifesaver documentary “Sara Mardini – Against the Current” (original subtitles in the Cinenova, on March 23 with Sara Mardini), Robert Schwentke’s philosopher satire “Seneca” (film palette, original subtitles in the film palette, OFF Broadway and in the Bonn Kinemathek), Emmanuele Moret’s infidelity comedy “Diary of a Paris Affair” (Rex), Lars Kraume’s colonial drama “The Measured Man” (Cinenova, OFF Broadway), Chad Stahelski’s brute actioner “John Wick: Chapter 4” ( Drive-in cinema Porz, Cinedom, Cineplex, Residenz, Rex, UCI, OmU im Metropolis) and Benjamin Quabeck’s and Mette Rank-Tange’s animated film “Flyer: The Secret of the Great Jewel” (Cinedom, Cineplex, Metropolis, UCI).
Editorial staff at choices.de
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