Bestie! (2013) User Reviews

Another kind of cinema

[totaldracula · 10/10 · 2 January 2017]

"Bestie" by Carsten Frank and Von Stern is a experience to watch. Is like a trip to another kind of reality. It defies any explanation and seems to deal with the relationship between a woman and her lover (Frank) who assaults and humiliates her. Frank appear naked in all his screen time which is quite small. I cant see any link with Marian Dora except for the use of outdoors locations and animals and insects; no scat neither extreme situations. In the Frank/Dora team, Frank is the more delicate ( to say something) of the two. By the way, a painting used in MDE appears in the companion piece of Bestie, Secrets of a soul and I guess is a work done by Frank himself.

I love Franks and Sterns work. I will watch every movie the make.

"Bestie!"

[OllieMugwump · 10/10 · 16 April 2018]

Margarethe Von Stern (this time blonde) returns as the central figure the victim of an emotional or genuine physical assault she reverts to an animalistic state prowling the woods and countryside slowy rebuilding her damaged psyche through contemplation. Including quotes ranging from Strindberg's Inferno and Akhenaten's Hymn to the Sun - possibly taking us into DAY OF THE PURPLE SUN.

A more minimalistic and raw style than SECRETS OF A SOUL beautifully carried by Margarethe Von Stern who uses her sleek physique to veer from rigid and awkward to elegantly animalistic and even disturbingly insectile or arachnid like fitting the concluding sequence.