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Sex, Pity and Loneliness

2017 · 119 min

A wry, tangled ensemble piece that drifts between strangers' lives, feeling bittersweet and quietly absurd as connections form and fray.

Directed by
Lars Montag
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Rainer Bock, Maria Hofstätter, Friederike Kempter
Overview
A shoe theft in the ICE is the prelude to a wild kaleidoscope of relationships and dependencies between different urban people who relish as in a cobweb fidget.

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Directed by
Lars Montag
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Rainer Bock, Maria Hofstätter, Friederike Kempter
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • love
    • loneliness
    • identity
    • deception
    • class
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • ensemble
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour5
    Realism7
    Romance5
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    comedy, drama
    Directed by
    Lars Montag
    Written by
    Helmut Krausser, Lars Montag
    Starring
    Rainer Bock, Maria Hofstätter, Friederike Kempter, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Bernhard Schütz, Eva Löbau, Lilly Wiedemann, Eugen Bauder
    Cinematography
    Mathias Neumann
    Runtime
    119 min
    Country
    Germany
    Languages
    German

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