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Glück
Bliss (Glück)
Germany 2021
produced by
Martin Heisler for Flare Film, ZDF (Das Kleine Fernsehspiel)
directed by Henrika Kull
starring Katharina Behrens, Eva Collé, Nele Kayenberg, Jean-Luc Bubert, Petra Kauner, Bence Máté, Sarah Junghauss, Mandy Schicker, Christina-Madalina David, Dennis Singert, Mario Feldman, Jochen Andreas Cüsow, Kai Rudolph, Mario Mentrup, Pierre Emö, Ricardas Myka, Carsten Geisler, Jannis Eli Pose, Mike Hoffmann, Luise Helm, Amber Richter
written by Henrika Kull, music by Dascha Dauenhauer
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Sascha's (Katharina Behrens) a seasoned prostitute who has seen pretty
much everything - but when new girl Maria (Eva Collé) starts working at
the company, she immediately shows interest, and when Maria
"forgets" something at work, she quickly volunteers to return it
to her ... to find out Maria's as interested in her as vice versa. At
first, this only leads to quick sex, but it's not long before both women
realize it's more than just a sexual thing, they're more to each other
than just a quick fix, and so it's not long before the two of them become
a couple. And they're happy, too, as they manage to not let their
professional sex stand in the way of their private sex life. But then
Sascha has the idea to take Maria back to her hometown in the country to
introduce her to her friends - and let it slip that they're both
prostitutes. A few days later, one of the locals, Mike (Jean-Luc Bubert),
shows up at the club they're working at and asks for Sascha's services,
and when she turns him down under a pretense, he asks for Maria instead,
for whom he's nothing more than another client. But Mike having sex with
Maria breaks something between the women, something that might not be
fixable ... Now I won't lie to you, for the rather
run-of-the-mill story it's telling (that's being it's hard to have a
"normal" relationship for sex workers), this film is mighty
pretentious, which is reflected in the never quite natural dialogues as
well as the fly-at-the-wall, almost documentary style direction, both of
which seem to desperately try to add depth while ignoring to tell a story
engaging enough by its own terms. What really saves the film though is its
two leads who really give it their all and come across as 100% authentic,
as they find and portray their roles as more than just "working
girls" but multi-layered characters, even in their sex scenes (and
given the subject, there are a few of course). So in all, by no means a
masterpiece, but an actors' movie in the best meaning of the word.
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