After a long hiatus from watching films in the theater while living on the Bodensee, I dove back in after moving to Munich.
A slow moving, but beautiful film that captures a foreign and nearly surrealistic environment. The landscapes are simply stunning. I intermittently was asking myself what is green screen and what is computer-generated, but someone that intentional imperfection created an really interesting aesthetic. The landscape shots were somehow imperfect with noisy colors. At times there seemed to be references to Wes Anderson. The bungee jumping tower and zoo somehow fit perfectly. The focus on hand craft including cooking and the aesthetic of the main character’s home. Pink Floyd and the main characters fighting ability and skill to build a side car. It deserves a TV series, with characters perhaps not has developed as the time allowed, whether that is the many old male figures or the women working at the circus. There were few, but key moments of humor or absurdity.
Here be spoilers! Was Jackie a fictional character? Jackie and Daisy vomit, and when Daisy does it it provides the moment for Jackie to shoot her. In fact that moment may the only time the two characters meet? And then Lou is in the house. At the end of the film when Daisy is dragged away, Jackie is asleep in the car. Jackie may also be an extension of Lou, killing her enemies for her. Jackie works for Lou’s father, just as Lou did before the film starts. Jackie talks to her little brother and mother on the phone, calling her monster, while Lou’s mother went missing. Jackie is the only “magical” character.