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Der Kameramörder

Austria / Hungary / Switzerland 2010
produced by
Andreas Hruza, Erich Lackner for Cobra Film, Hruza Medienbüro, Lotus Film, Mythberg Film
directed by Robert-Adrian Pejo
starring Dorka Gryllus, Merab Ninidze, Andreas Lust, Ursina Lardi, Attila Egyed, László Bolyki, Oszkár Nyári, Rita Fejes, Gréta Hajdu, Lajos Csiszér
screenplay by Robert-Adrian Pejo, Agnes Pluch, Günter Pscheider, based on the novel by Thomas Glavinic, music by Peter von Siebenthal, Daniel Jakob, Oli Kuster

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Thomas (Merab Ninidze) has invited his best friends from way back, Heinrich (Andreas Lust) and Eva (Ursina Lardi), to spend a weekend with him and his wife Sonja (Dorka Gryllus) at their new idyllic house at Lake Neusiedel. At first, the reunion seems to prove a big success, but soon a dark shadow arises: Several kids have disappeared in the neighbourhood, and a snuff video has popped up on the internet that might show what has happened to the kids - a snuff video that Heinrich eventually admits to have seen.

For some reason, neighbour Imre (Oszkár Nyári) soon starts to suspect Heinrich to be the killer, and obviously his suspicions are detailed enough for the police to bring Heinrich in to question him, and even after they release him they forbid him to leave the region. Now that puts quite a bit of strain on our four re-uniting friends, and eventually, rifts in their respective relationships start to show and deepen ... until the killer is found, after which everything turns back to being nice and dandy, the four spend one last peaceful day together, then Heinrich and Eva return to the city - where Heinrich is soon visited by two cops, who want to question him about ... Thomas.

Meanwhile, Sonja sees on the TV that the man who was supposed to be the killer of the kids was only a fake desperate for attention, and now the search for the killer is on again - and she finds more and more evidence pointing to Thomas as the killer ...

 

To some extent, this film plays exactly like most novels by Thomas Glavinic (writer of the source material) read: There are some great scenes here, scenes of suspense, tension and whatnot, and somehow the build-up of the mystery as such is quite nicely done ... but on a narrative level, the film quite simply sucks. The whole film takes forever to take the audience to a point of interest, many narrative threads are dropped without any explanation, complex conflicts are just written out of the film without rhyme or reason at random moments, and the film fails to give us a proper pay-off. As I said, all of this perfectly corresponds with Glavinic's way of writing.

But the film has problems of its own as well, like its cold, almost impersonal directorial style, its inability to properly develop its characters, and its mostly completely empty dialogue coupled with many a banal scene.

Granted, wtih a massive re-write this could have become a good movie, but as it is, it is not the worst film ever, but something that leaves a lot to be desired.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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