Bucharest meat
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Bucharest meat |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andy Fetscher |
| script | Andy Fetscher |
| production | Gaetano Bongiorno |
| music | Steven Schwalbe |
| camera | Andy Fetscher |
| cut | Carsten Eder |
| occupation | |
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Bucharest Fleisch is a German horror film directed by Andy Fetscher in 2007.
action
After the death of her parents and her little sister in a car accident in Romania , the student Lara drives to the scene of the accident with her boyfriend and two college friends. She examines the remains of her family in a Romanian hospital. Then she meets the mysterious Nichita, who reveals to the group that Lara's parents did not die of natural causes, but were murdered. She leads the group to the scene of the accident. In a remote house she tells them the whole story: Lara's father sold rotten meat to the street children of Romania and thus presented himself as a humanitarian benefactor in Germany. In fact, the children became seriously ill and hungry for human flesh.
When Nichita's friend shows up, the situation escalates. Lara's girlfriend is shot. While part of the group holed up in the house, Nichita tries to get the car. The next morning half the group disappeared. Nichita got the car, but Lara's friend has disappeared. She eventually finds him badly injured and gives him the coup de grace. She escapes with Nichita to an old farmhouse where a grandfather lives with his little granddaughter. There they are welcomed in a friendly manner. In an intimate moment, Nichita Lara reveals that she is also sick with meat. The two then sleep together. The next morning the grandfather of the farmhouse is dead. Lara can bring the little girl to safety. Nichita is threatened by the bad children. Lara succeeds in driving the children away, but Nichita dies. Lara takes the little girl to Germany.
background
Bucharest Fleisch was Andy Fetscher's thesis at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and was co-financed by the Hessischer Rundfunk . In fact, it is a remake of his own 30-minute short film Bucharest Fish , which he made in 2003 as a black and white film under a pseudonym. The film was shot in October 2006 on 27 days in Romania, Germany and France on Mini-DV and Super 16 .
The film was bought by Legend Films and marketed on DVD. A limited version of the film was released in a supermarket meat wrapper.
criticism
In general, the ecological and political horror film was rated very differently. One reviewer even drew a parallel to queer cinema and interpreted the plot as a gay self-discovery process.
“However, Bucharest meat is not only politically ambitious trash (without falling into loopy screeching and whispering), but above all intelligent queer cinema. (...) This queer reading allows the plot of Bucharest Fleisch to be understood as a process of emancipation: The news of the death of her family (the end of the unquestioned patriarchal order) pushes Lara into an identity-finding process that, through her encounter with the beautiful Nikita, sets a directional impulse (away from the Reproduction heteronormative lifestyle). "
Florian Widegger from the film magazine Das Manifest, on the other hand, rated the film as mediocre:
“So be it, BUCHAREST FLEISCH does a lot of things right, but a lot of things wrong - as a thesis, the film at least shows that the director can build and exploit arcs of tension and is also quite adept at handling the camera. In terms of content, unfortunately, only an off-the-peg backwoodslasher awaits us after a promising 20 minutes. It's a shame, there would have been more in there. "
The lexicon of international film describes the film as a "radical university degree that tries to combine explicit splatter set pieces with political claims, but fails because of the exaggerated artistic ambition of coarse-grained image material, wobbling handheld camera, sometimes confused editing techniques and reduced dramaturgy."
Web links
- Bucharest meat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Linus Reingen: Bucharest meat. MovieMaze.de, accessed on October 16, 2011 .
- ↑ a b c Jörg von Bebber: Fish and meat in one. (No longer available online.) F.LM, April 27, 2008, archived from the original on February 24, 2011 ; Retrieved October 16, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Francis Craig: Rotten meat for Romania - a horror film by Andy Fetscher. (No longer available online.) Filmunfernsehen.blog.de, March 12, 2008, archived from the original on December 27, 2010 ; Retrieved October 17, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Florian Widegger: Review. Retrieved October 16, 2011 .
- ↑ title. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed October 17, 2011 .
