The State I Am In (2000)
(Die innere Sicherheit)
Country: GER
Technical: col 106m
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingul
Synopsis:
A fifteen year-old girl's adolescent rite of passage coincides with her terrorist parents' flight from Portugal to Hamburg when their bid to leave the continent goes awry.
Review:
Domestic drama meets on-the-run thriller in the director's first theatrical feature. The collision of genre elements would become a hallmark. Here the couple remains resolutely the girl's parents, sometimes arguing, often making love, but always there for her; their other lives are caught only in glimpses, a gun here, a bag of stolen loot there. The clinical shooting style and elliptical storytelling confine us very much to the youngster's perspective, her emotions pushing and pulling her between solidarity and unwitting betrayal.
(Die innere Sicherheit)
Country: GER
Technical: col 106m
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingul
Synopsis:
A fifteen year-old girl's adolescent rite of passage coincides with her terrorist parents' flight from Portugal to Hamburg when their bid to leave the continent goes awry.
Review:
Domestic drama meets on-the-run thriller in the director's first theatrical feature. The collision of genre elements would become a hallmark. Here the couple remains resolutely the girl's parents, sometimes arguing, often making love, but always there for her; their other lives are caught only in glimpses, a gun here, a bag of stolen loot there. The clinical shooting style and elliptical storytelling confine us very much to the youngster's perspective, her emotions pushing and pulling her between solidarity and unwitting betrayal.
(Die innere Sicherheit)
Country: GER
Technical: col 106m
Director: Christian Petzold
Cast: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Bilge Bingul
Synopsis:
A fifteen year-old girl's adolescent rite of passage coincides with her terrorist parents' flight from Portugal to Hamburg when their bid to leave the continent goes awry.
Review:
Domestic drama meets on-the-run thriller in the director's first theatrical feature. The collision of genre elements would become a hallmark. Here the couple remains resolutely the girl's parents, sometimes arguing, often making love, but always there for her; their other lives are caught only in glimpses, a gun here, a bag of stolen loot there. The clinical shooting style and elliptical storytelling confine us very much to the youngster's perspective, her emotions pushing and pulling her between solidarity and unwitting betrayal.