Film
Finsterworld (Director: Frauke Finsterwalder, color, 95 Min., 2012/13)

FRIDAY FILMS @GOETHE

Fri, 07/21/2017
6:00 PM Goethe-Institut San Francisco, Auditorium

Are you interested in Germany and German culture? Are you looking for an opportunity to improve your German language skills? Do you enjoy German films? Then this is your event!

Every third Friday of the month, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco will present recent German films ranging from small, independent productions to box office hits. All screenings are in German with English subtitles. Admission is free!

PLOT:
FINSTERWORLD is set in a Germany that has seemingly been plucked out of time. A land where the sun always shines, children wear school uniforms, policemen dress up as bears and pedicurists make biscuits for old ladies. However, an abyss lurks beneath this beautiful facade – and the film goes on a journey to its depths.

REVIEWS:
A wicked satire which goes to the heart of German complexes in a series of bizarre episodes.
—Süddeutsche Zeitung

FINSTERWORLD is packed with sublime, provocative lines that one rarely hears in the cinema.
—BR KinoKino

In glistening sunlight, a girl and a boy, Natalie (Carla Juri) and Dominik (Leonard Scheicher), dressed in school blazers and ties, saunter along an empty pavement, passing by a white picket fence. Complete with a neatly trimmed hedge, it symbolises the suburban idyll under which – in true David Lynch style – the deepest abysses always lurk.
—Die Zeit