Brad Pitt takes you to the excessive Hollywood of the silent film era. And Jennifer Lopez wants to get married on a desert island. Which isn’t that easy.
Babylon – Intoxication of Ecstasy: Excesses in Hollywood
“La La Land” director Damien Chazelle takes you back to 1920s Hollywood with a star cast including Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. “Babylon – Rush of Ecstasy” is a wild spectacle – with Diego Calva as a promising newcomer. The film tells of the era when the young film metropolis of the silent film era slid into the age of sound.
Chazelle goes with me lavish parties, lots of bare skin, bombastic film sets and decadent excesses to the full. Brad Pitt plays a celebrated movie star, Margot Robbie an aspiring starlet.
“Babylon – Rush of Ecstasy”, USA 2022, 188 minutes, FSK from 12, by Damien Chazelle, with Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Tobey Maguire
Shotgun Wedding: Action Comedy Starring Jennifer Lopez
Action-comedy “Shotgun Wedding” follows Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel as a couple planning to tie the knot on a deserted island — but a series of obstacles thrown their way. For example pirates.
Darcy (Lopez) and Tom (Duhamel) are a couple from very different family backgrounds. Two worlds collide on the island – and the stress is inevitable. Then Darcy’s actually so much cooler ex Sean (Lenny Kravitz) shows up at the party at the invitation of the bride’s father.
Plenty of fuel, then, but the film only really gets going when the wedding party is stormed by pirates – and it’s up to the newlyweds to rescue their guests, all of whom are being held hostage.
“Shotgun Wedding”, USA 2022, 100 minutes, FSK 12+, by Jason Moore, with Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel and Lenny Kravitz
The Hamlet Syndrome: Youth in Ukraine
Shaped by the Maidan revolution almost a decade ago and by the political upheavals of recent years, young adults are looking for their future in Ukraine. Five from the “Generation Maidan” are portrayed in the documentary “The Hamlet Syndrome” by the director duo Elwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosołowski. The intensity brought the film the Grand Prize of “Critic’s Week” at the Locarno Film Festival 2022.
Starting point of the documentation that Months before Russia invaded Ukraine was filmed is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s drama “Hamlet”. In the artistic work, the participants reflect on their own experiences with violence, abuse of power and self-doubt. Hamlet’s famous question about “to be or not to be” becomes a mirror of today’s existential questions.
“The Hamlet Syndrome”, Germany, Poland 2022, 85 min., FSK – no labeling, by Elwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosołowski
