Too many words would only spoil the enchanting charm of this wonderful "little movie".
*** ATTENTION: unimportant spoilers, that do not spoil too much ***
To its advantage, it was "little". Shot on location, with extremely good camerawork: watch Valentin, when he sits in the bus at the end. At first sight, and many more, the movie looked like one more depressing look into the lives of European white scum - I have no problems watching this, I even love Ulrich Seidl's documentaries, another Austrian observer of life in Vienna - but instead, the film becomes more warm, tender, caring and hopeful all the time. I think, I even understood, why one girl tends to laugh. It is about "not giving up".
And that the other girl learns to laugh is one of the most rewarding moments of this beautiful film.
Barbara Albert must be a person full of love. And she caught the beauty, power and poetry of falling snow, of snowmen in Vienna, children letting kites fly, of embraces...
*** ATTENTION: unimportant spoilers, that do not spoil too much ***
To its advantage, it was "little". Shot on location, with extremely good camerawork: watch Valentin, when he sits in the bus at the end. At first sight, and many more, the movie looked like one more depressing look into the lives of European white scum - I have no problems watching this, I even love Ulrich Seidl's documentaries, another Austrian observer of life in Vienna - but instead, the film becomes more warm, tender, caring and hopeful all the time. I think, I even understood, why one girl tends to laugh. It is about "not giving up".
And that the other girl learns to laugh is one of the most rewarding moments of this beautiful film.
Barbara Albert must be a person full of love. And she caught the beauty, power and poetry of falling snow, of snowmen in Vienna, children letting kites fly, of embraces...