Reviewed by Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
- 6/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Krystof Zlatnik
Written by: Benjamin Karalic and Krystof Zlatnik
Starring: Hanna Schwamborn, Horst-Günter Marx, Marc Hosemann, Catherine Bode and Eckehard Hoffmann
Discussing “Lys” at its Seattle International Film Festival premiere, writer-director Krystof Zlatnik explained that the movie started off as his film-school final project. When he fleshed it out into a feature, though, he discovered that no German festivals wanted it. Not artsy enough, they said.
So Zlatnik wisely shopped “Lys” around on the U.S. festival circuit, where science fiction is not only accepted but celebrated.
The film opens as something strange is threatening mankind, or at least German-kind. It seems that a teenage girl named Lys (Hanna Schwamborn) has somehow thrown a monkey wrench into a giant power plant’s energy production. Not a literal wrench, mind you; she actually just got close enough to the...
- 6/20/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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