Der freie Wille/ The free will

Theo (Juergen Vogel) had brutally raped girls in the past. He came to prison and after he wants to change his life. He wants to prove that you can change yourself even if you started in the wrong way. But he got this appetite that´s getting worse. Then Theo meets Nettie (Sabine Timoteo) and falls for her. A fragile relationship developes. Nettie is his chance. But Theo cant´t repress his inner appetite. He splits with Nettie and tells her everything. She wants to find out about him and instead of going to the police she follows him in secret. Not a movie for sensitive minds. There are some really brutal scences and it is quite depressing to see how much of a free will we seem to have, even though in the end Theo proves that he has it by making suicide. This movie isn´t showing black and white point of views. The viewer is confronted with Theo as the evil-doer and as the victim at the same time. Nettie confronts herself with one of Theos victims and still she is disrupted. Sabine Timoteo plays this role just brilliant. It is a very hard topic and it´s concentrated in this movie in a way that the viewer is left with an hundreds of quesitons. Absolutely worth watching.

Emmas Glück / The luck of Emma (2006)

This is the most beautiful love story I have seen within years. It is authentic, unsentimental, light, sad, and so many things more. The setting is perfect and Emma is wonerful unconventionel. So here we go: Max steals a car ( ah well, not a car, a jaguar:-) and a lot of black money from his working place. He just came to know why he always has this pain in his stomage: cancer. But his way leads to an accident after which he wakes up at Emma´s farm. Emma lives alone at her farm wiht her pigs and chickens. Her farm is going to be auctioned in six weeks. Max stays at Emma´s place and a frail love story starts that just can´t find a happy end, because the cancer is uncurable.

101 Reykjavik (2000)

101 Reykjavik is the adress of Hlynur who is 30 years old lives still at his mother`s appartment. He is not willing to do anything more than watching pornography and making party at the weekend. He is weather stupid nor intelligent and quite convenient with his boring nothingness. The everyday life changes when Lola arrives, his new "father in law", because his mother has her coming out as a lesbien. So while his mother leaves over new years eve he impragenates Lola. I can recommend this movie which is full of dark humor, depressing scences, absurd happenings and snowy cold weatherand a main actor who isn´t able to make anything out of his life not even capable to make suicide, by the way one of the most funny scences in my opinion.