Flüstern des Mondes, Das |
Austria • 2006 • 97m •
   • Directed by: Michael Satzinger. • Starring: Franz Robert Ceeh, Michael Fernbach, Mischa Fernbach, Dominik Hartl, Margot Hruby, Rochus Millauer, Fabian Rudisser, Julia Schwarz, Julian Stampfer, Liane Wagner. • Music by: Dominik Hartl.    When Patrick and Jannis, two young gay filmstudents infiltrate a circus to shoot an undercover documentary, they find a girl, whose sensitivity to sunlight forces her to live by night. But that is just the beginning of their adventure. They have to deal with exotic poison dart frogs, a political conspiracy and a ritual, that puts their love to a deadly test.
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It is hard to categorize this film - but "murder mystery" comes close enough. Nevertheless, the entire charm of the film is not really the story, but is much more a question of style. Highly inventive and a visual delight, it keeps you deliciously off-kilter as you try to follow all that is happening on screen... with two languages plus special effects plus subtitles occasionally all happening at the same time. The film is obviously one that could only have been made by computer-savvy technicians - and this is also part of the charm as they let us see some of the tricks they are using as a way to deconstruct things right before our eyes. it is also obviously made by and for people used to multi-tasking and our high-tech modern world.
The story-line is rather weak - but that is even admitted near the end by one of the characters. Since I don't speak German I cannot really comment on the acting - although personally I found the main players to be rather expressionless and unconvincing. But this really doesn't matter - one is caught up in the entire deliciousness of the film medium being used to delight us again and again.
I predict that this film, given a bit of a chance and a reasonable distribution at various film- festivals, could eventually become a cult film for various factions of young people today - specifically film buffs and gay audiences. Give it a chance - you'll probably like it!
Review by klc-16 from the Internet Movie Database.
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