Hard-working German actor Jürgen Vogel plays the serial rapist Theo in Matthias Glasner’s almost unbearably grim The Free Will (Der Freie Wille). When we meet Theo, he’s heavy-set and angry, working at the cafeteria of a seaside youth hostel. Within minutes of the film’s beginning, he spots a potential victim, knocks her off a bicycle [...]
the funk is its own reward
Fictionaut Blog- Checking In With Metazen March 12, 2010Last March I drank a bottle of whiskey and woke up the next morning with a fiction blog. [Read more] Recently: Fictionaut Five: Michael Kimball Luna Digest, 3/9 Fictionaut Faves, 3/8 […]
- Checking In With Metazen March 12, 2010
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- Review: The Exploding GirlZoe Kazan won the best actress award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival for her performance in Bradley Rust Grey's melancholy film The Exploding Girl. Almost a year after its debut, the film is opening in limited release in New York this Friday. To appreciate this slow and gentle film, you're going to have to love looking at rising star Zoe Kaza […]
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Free Willy
It’s not that I can’t tell a killer whale from a serial rapist — it’s simply that the dumbest puns sometimes amuse most, especially when they offer mild relief for otherwise unbearibly grim tales of doomed love and ill-fated desires. Benten’s fourth DVD release Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) streeted last week (yes, it’s [...]