***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** The 90'ies brought about a revival of the German comedy, especially the variation that deals with the misfortunes of the love- and mostly sex-lives of the inhabitants of the urban jungle. In a Short Cuts like manner, it introduces us to a girl who babysits her neighbour?s daughter, whose father is a penniless writer on the verge of either fame or breakdown, and who, later on, will come across a would-be femme fatale and her timid friend, whose teenage son is undertaking first sexual steps with his girlfriend. The aforementioned babysitter gets an invitation to a gym, where a gay man decides to make her his date for a salsa party, organised by a handsome guy who had come by the gym earlier, and so she (the babysitter) gives the girl to a friend of hers, who will then happen across the mother of that child. Meanwhile, the mother's flat-mate decides to kill herself because her cheating b**tard of a boyfriend forgot about her birthday and meets an Italian on the roof who wants to kill himself because of his cheating b*tch of a girlfriend. Of course, they fall in love right as they are hanging from her balcony, several meters off the ground. No summary can do justice to the many plot convolutions of this film, which are very entertaining. Did I mention that all of this happens on the day the Pope visits the city?
Review of Love Scenes from Planet Earth
