I always say that when my hair is done and I have a pair of nice shoes on, I am fully dressed

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Movie
Original title I always say that when my hair is done and I have a pair of nice shoes on, I am fully dressed
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1984
length 32 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Ulrike Filgers
script Ulrike Filgers
production UFI-Film, Cologne
music Freddy Quinn ,
George Gershwin ,
Johann Strauss (son) ,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
camera Werner Kubny
cut Christel Maye
occupation

I always say that when my hair is done and I am wearing a pair of nice shoes, I am fully dressed is a German experimental short film from 1984.

Content description

The subject of the experimental short film is the phenomenology of hairdressing. Hair can symbolize power and prestige, but also powerlessness and oppression, so the basic thesis of the film. Its structure is based on the specific processes of washing, changing and hairdressing. The place of this ritual can be anywhere: a poor kitchen or a powdered boudoir .

Colored photo montages mix with the moving image: queens and courtesans , citizens and maids, they all let their hair shampooed and hochtoupieren .

Dirk Bach plays an eternally chatting master hairdresser from the 1950s. Rosè is his realm of the senses, his hairdressing salon. The girls' smocks, the sinks and nappies, nothing is left out. And because the ritual of washing and laying is damp, Hella jumps from her senses, decorated with water lilies, from the three-meter board of the Neptune Bath . A “bather” becomes a “kicking Venus”. The reminiscence of the Hollywood bathing beauty Esther Williams and her water ballets cannot be overlooked. First it is undulating , then it is teased - this is also how it is known in Versailles , at the French court. Hella von Sinnen as Marie Antoinette , pressed into a rococo dress, desperately tries, like the French queen once did after a victorious naval battle, to clip a model of a ship into the meter-high, silver-white wig. Belle Poule was the name of the victorious French frigate, in English "The beautiful chicken".

Reviews

“The audience had a lot to laugh about, from ironic and hyperbole allusions to the erotic element in hair care to the intentional end credits with never-ending thanks, so that the film reached the length set by the subsidy rules. The bureaucracy in the Wiesbaden film evaluation office had no nerve for such fun. "

- Peter Bier : as part of the festival reporting on Hof 1984

"The ironic montages and successful experimental motifs not only take a position on certain ritual features of the cultural production of femininity, but also refer to film aesthetic patterns."

- Gertrud Koch

More reviews:

  • Spectrum Film, 3/1985
  • City revue, 1/1984
  • Clips, 10/1984

Festivals

Archiving

A 16 mm copy of the film was purchased by the NRW Ministry of Culture under the heading “Women's Films NRW” and archived in the North Rhine-Westphalia State Archives .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bier: Once a year there is enough cinema . In: Stern , November 16, 1984, pp. 277-279.
  2. ^ Opinion by Gertrud Koch for the Wiesbaden film evaluation agency, December 21, 1984, Frankfurt
  3. ↑ Spectrum Film, Feature, Documentary and Video Films in Criticism, No. 3 March 1985, Cologne, p. 21
  4. ↑ Stadt-Revue, Cologne, 1984, "Feeling and Hair: Light Blonde Stripes in Mandarin", p. 22
  5. ^ Clips, Das Magazin der Friseure, Cologne October 1, 1984.
  6. ↑ International Munich Film Weeks GmbH / Association of European Film Directors: European Film Festival Munich Film Festival June 23–1. July 1984. Catalog. Munich 1984. Therein: film entry p. 144.
  7. ↑ a b Filmbüro NW e. V. (Hrsg.): Kulturelle Filmförderung Nordrhein-Westfalen 1980-1984 / 85, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1985. Therein: Film entry p. 28
  8. ^ Films de Femmes - 7ème Festival International de Créteil. Créteil, France 1985. Festival catalog. In it: film entry p. 38