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Blue My Mind
Switzerland 2017
produced by Stefan Jäger, Katrin Renz
directed by Lisa Brühlmann
starring Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller, Georg Scharegg, Lou Haltinner, Yael Meier, David Oberholzer, Una Rusca, Timon Kiefer, Benjamin Dangel, Martin Rapold, Rachel Braunschweig, Dominik Locher, Michael Schweizer Anliker, Ruth Schwegler, Nicola Perot, Ryan Wunderlin, Manuel Schweizer, Nicole Gardin, Loulou Locher, Tim Bettermann
written by Lisa Brühlmann, music by Thomas Kuratli
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Mia (Luna Wedler) is just 15, and her life is shit: She has relocated
to a new school during the school year just because her dad had to
relocate for work, she has just has her first period, and her mom doesn't
seem to understand her anymore - so basically it's a really bad case of
puberty, which is bad enough. As a result, she tries to connect with the
"bad girls" of school, led by Gianna (Zoe Pastelle Holthuizen),
which is bound to get her into trouble. So she has her first experiences
with alcohol, sex, drugs, has a lesbian spell, has her emotions thrown
into turmoil, loves her parents, hates her parents, and everything
inbetween ... thus so far the symptoms of puberty are pretty normal. But
she also grows skin between her toes, which horrifies her, later fishlike
scales and even fish-like gills - which understandably makes her believe
there's more than a little wrong with herself ... Now Blue
My Mind just looks amazing, is quite atmospheric, and it's really
well-acted throughout, especially given the young age of its leads ... and
that said, despite the basic storyline being really worthwhile, it tries
too much all at once, thus hammering home its puberty-metaphor a bit too
hard. I mean, the metaphor works, but the film seems to sometimes be all
over the place, trying to touch a few too many talking points all at once
and that way losing a bit of its urgency. Which is not to say this is a
bad film by a longshot, it's actually pretty good - just more stringency
could have made this a masterpiece!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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