Hot Picks
|
|
|
Dächer meiner Stadt
Rooftops of My City
USA 2018
produced by André Vauthey, Martin Hirschvogel, Maya Jasmin (executive), Terence Schweizer (executive), Bruno Schweizer (executive), Wlodzimierz Szost (executive), Makiko Szost (executive)
directed by Maya Jasmin
starring Terence Schweizer, Maya Jasmin, Matthew Gerrish
written by Maya Jasmin, music by Key Szost, title song by Daniel Richter
short
review by Mike Haberfelner
|
|
Musician Lena (Maya Jasmin) and actor Oliver (Terence Schweizer) have
been living as opposite-side-of-the-street neighbours in New York for
months now, long enough to consider the city their home, and they have
seen each other chilling out on their respective rooftops often enough to
exchange a few words every time they do - nothing big though, just polite
small talk. Then though Oliver finds out that like him, Lena speaks German
- which immediately forms a bond between them and they finally meet on one
and the same roof ... for a beer, and to talk about their respective
origins - he's from Switzerland, she's part German, part Polish, part
Japanese - and what "home" means to them ... Rooftops
of My City is a very quiet movie that moves at a deliberately relaxed
pace that gives as much weight to the pauses between the lines as it does
to the lines themselves - and yet in the current climate of the changing
attitutes of the political USA to immigration, it's also a very powerful
plea for an open America that welcomes immigrants as it once did (after
all, it is a nation of immigrants, essentially), for a nation that
lets everyone dream the "American Dream". But this is a
message not delivered by sledgehammer but in a subtle way thanks to a
clever script, smooth direction, solid performances, and New York as a
naturally great backdrop. Worth a look for sure!
|
|
|
review © by Mike Haberfelner
|
Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned) |
The links below will take you just there!!!
|
|
|
Thanks for watching !!!
|
|
|
Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
|