42/11
This is followed by “In the Shadows” (2010)
Twelve years after his birth, the professional criminal Trojan returns to Berlin. A valuable painting is to be stolen in the city. But the meticulously planned robbery soon gets out of control.
Berlin, how beautiful you are
Your splashes of color are always on a gray background, your sound is unpleasant, your light is artificial, you seem crazy because you are a magnet, a juggernaut, you are legendary, but why, for what? Today there is a robbery film without tinsel. One that lives less from tension and action than from its mood.
Scarred, lonely, disillusioned
Minimalist, sparse, joyless, gloomy. Like Berlin, but different, because “Scorched Earth” is certainly not garrulous and self-serving. The characters are at the center of life, not in a bubble.
Every straw means everything
And when it’s over, then that’s just how it is. I can’t remember the plot of the previous film, but that doesn’t matter, because it’s an independent work. Quite the opposite, not a bad one, but with the feeling of watching a better “Tatort”.
But without poorly cast detectives and a director who thinks he’s one
For the primitive “Tatort” However, this film is probably not for you – you won’t be taken for fools here.
