Love and Sci-Fi: “Out of My Skin”
Magical realism, science fiction – or just an incredible love story? “Out of my Skin” doesn’t fit into any category. Leyla (Mala Emde) and Tristan (Jonas Dassler) travel to a remote island. There, numerous couples come together to see the world through the eyes of another person. Because on the island it is possible to swap bodies. So it is that Leyla’s childhood friend Stella is in her father’s (Edgar Selge) body. Leyla and Tristan switch bodies with another couple.
What initially sounds like an exciting experiment is much more. Because the perception in the foreign body not only changes the external behavior, but also the attitude towards life. And then Leyla doesn’t want to go back to her old “I”.
“Aus meine Haut”, Germany 2022, 103 minutes, FSK from 12, by Alex Schaad, with Mala Emde, Jonas Dassler, Maryam Zaree, Dimitrij Schaad, Edgar Selge
“The Woman in the Mist”: The new thriller from Park Chan-wook
Park Chan-wook is one of the great masters of South Korean cinema. The 59-year-old is known for his elegant, dark thrillers, which are often underlaid with subtle irony. This is also the case in his new film “The Woman in the Fog”, which won the director’s prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 – a visual masterpiece.
The thriller tells the story of police officer Chang Hae-joon (Park Hae-il). This determines an alleged accidental death and feels like the widow of the victim, Tang Wei (Song Seo-rae), attracted. Chang Hae-joon gets more and more involved in the case. Tang Wei soon becomes the focus of the investigations – and the policeman finds it difficult to distinguish himself.
“The Woman in the Mist”, South Korea 2022, 138 minutes, FSK 16+, by Park Chan-wook, with Tang Wei, Park Hae-il
Drama: “When will you kiss my wounds”
“When are you coming to kiss my wounds” by Hanna Doose tells the story of four old friends who meet again after a long time on a lonely farm in the Black Forest. Then old conflicts break out.
Laura (Gina Henkel) and Jan (Alexander Fehling) recently moved from Berlin to a lonely farm in the Black Forest. Her friend Kathi (Katarina Schröter) also lives there, who is terminally ill and doesn’t want to go to therapy. The everyday life of the three gets mixed up when Kathi’s sister Maria (Bibiana Beglau) arrives by motorbike from Berlin. In the luggage a few drugs and money problems. How do I want to live? who makes me happy Questions like these are negotiated in the drama.
“When are you coming to kiss my wounds”, Germany 2022, 115 minutes, FSK from 16, by Hanna Doose, with Bibiana Beglau, Gina Henkel, Katarina Schröter, Alexander Fehling
“The Lost Souls of Syria”: Prison Torture and the Slow Justice
Half-naked corpses in the dust, numbered and photographed on behalf of Syria’s security services: the photos of the Syrian defector “Caesar”, who smuggled 27,000 torture pictures abroad, gave the world public shocking evidence of the Crimes in the civil war country.
“The Lost Souls of Syria” by Stéphane Malterre and Garance Le Caisne documents years of attempts to bring the case to court in Europe. “Caesar” himself, who secretly copied the pictures and who is now considered public enemy number one in Syria, also has his say anonymously.
The film sometimes makes you hesitate, which is more depressing: the brutality of Syria’s torture apparatus or the impotence of the international judiciary.
“The Lost Souls of Syria”, F/D, 99 minutes, FSK 16+, by Stéphane Malterre and Garance Le Caisne
