Das Leichte Leben (Simple life)


Christina Schiewe, Germany

Fiction, 2007, 36'


Nina, 23, is on the lookout for love. Throu her, a portrait of a generation, shown as the product of a liberal education that gave them no references, no values. Noboby near her seems to have any value, either. She dreams of an ordered world, easier to understand.

The crudity of nude scenes tells us something : there is no separation, the body is not a protected area. But the voice off tells us all the untold things, eveything that is better avoided. When she gets pregnant, the comment starts by « when I cas a child, even when I had made a wrong thing, there was never real consequences ». This young girl, disapointed by this liberal education voted only once « for right-wing. My parents were shocked ».

Showing on screen a meaningless and ordinary life is not easy. The actors are well chosen to give an identity to those weak characters.

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