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So much average

Brilliant and touching

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Writer/director Ramsauer gets a lot of mileage out of a limited budget, thanks to keeping it small and simple, both plot-wise and by keeping the focus on faces and bodies. Half home invasion, half stalking thriller, the plot centers on two couples fighting for the love of a boy (good casting here as with the four main actors, too - mostly veterans in the TV field but newcomer Lili Epply is very convincing as the crazed antagonist Nicole, too!). First the conflict is more hinted at than open, but sooner or later all pretense flies out the window and things get ugly and uglier.As with many thrillers, the basic setup is a bit contrived, as are some decisions the protagonists have to take so the conflict stays limited to the four adults, but it never felt outright silly and there was a good buildup of tension throughout the movie - with the one exception of a side-plot prior to the finale where we explore Nicole's past; while this may be well-meant on Ramsauer's part, it stops the action and breaks the tension; besides, the motivations behind Nicole's behaviour seem rather cliché. Otherwise, a very good and intimate thriller, recommended!

A thriller made in Austria – any good?The tagline is: You get into the movie from the very first frame. The story offers an array of very different and well-established characters. The tension grows and grows. Maybe a twist at the end could have added to the story, but all in all a very entertaining film.The cast is outstanding. Although the story contains very specific and hard to play parts, the entire cast does a brilliant job.The camera work is excellent too. We all know that these days every filmmaker tries to show what a camera is capable of doing. Drones, cranes, steady-cams, gopro-shots … the list is endless. But here the camera is used in a classic way. It has a function: to observe, without being obtrusive. The result is that the audience is taken into the story. The color grading added a perfect touch for the genre. Beautifully shot!And the sound? Yes the sound is important too. (If not more important). The dialogue is crisp and clear, the sound design adds a lot of subtle layers supporting the story and the sound mix is done in a highly professional and emotional way.A thriller made in Austria – any good? Yes good. Really good. I enjoyed watching it.

Sometimes I wonder... What is the driving force for somebody to have the deepest urge to tell something to an audience? What does he/she want to express? In this movie Michael Ramsauer has no other recognizable motif, as to entertain. But why does he want to entertain us? For the money? To get access to funny people? After half an hour into this movie no recognizable reason is left, why he wanted to make it. Non-logical moves by the main characters (always going alone into dangerous situations, mating without need as quick as a dog in a dangerous situation) disrupted me to follow the story. One of the main characters is a cross-border femme fatale. Knowing such persons by myself, I also know that the background of cross-border people is not that the parents did something terrible wrong with their child. Most of them come out of nearly normal families. So, every action in this movie is overdone. But without any sense. Why does Ramsauer always want to go over the top with his story? I for myself came to the conclusion, because somehow the remaining movie time had to be filled. Why is somebody going alone into an enemies house without telling the police (especially, when the brother is the police)? No actors in the world could have rescued this movie. I couldn't wait for the end and did not care anymore, whether it will be a bad end or a happy end. Only out!