Cliff

主演：Arsseni Bultmann,劳拉·汤克,大卫·史崔梭德,波拉·盖格,Camille Moltzen,卡斯帕·冯·比洛,梅林·罗斯,阿克塞尔·米尔伯格,莎拉·葆埃特,Esther Bechtold,Anna Amalie Blomeyer,Giuseppe Bonvissuto,马提亚斯‧邦德舒,Leon Cliff,Romi Dörlitz,Luisa-Céline Gaffron,克劳德·
简介：　　Joachim是家中老三，常遭两位哥哥作弄，往往情绪失控，幸好父亲是精神病院的院长，对他照顾有加。这所院舍专门照料青少年病人，以康服而非囚禁作为目标，是当时德国最先进的有关设施。Joachim在这环境长大，让他有一个不一样的童年。他一家视病人如家人，使他体会到所谓「正常」与否只是一线之差。视频透视主角从小孩至成年的印记，描绘他经历初恋、父母离异和出国等，各种人生片段有喜有悲，但黑色幽默的风格贯彻始终，一众专业和业余演员，包括精神障碍人士的演出尤其出色。

主演：珍妮·艾加特,布莱恩·马歇尔,Clare Sutcliffe,西蒙·沃德
简介：The story appears simple on the surface, but is revealed, especially after multiple viewings, as more multi-layered and textured than Cassavetes at his best. Ostensibly it concerns a 14-year old Catholic girl, Wynne (Agutter) growing up in this post-modern wasteland, who develops a crush on her much older adoptive brother (Marshall)- a crush which perversely deepens and grows into infatuation once she starts to believe he is the local sex killer. This is in itself an idea that makes you sit up and jolt, but as the narrative develops, it continues not necessarily along a linear path but in several confusing and fascinating directions: the family's history, (detailed effectively in chilling flashback during an improvised seance) is a chequered one, and has suffered at least one major relocation and upheaval in the last ten years. At the crux, however, it's the depiction of socialal changes that make I Start Counting so fascinating and elevate its language far beyond the confines of the standard horror film. The major subtext- that teenage girls were maturing more quickly than before, and developing full sexual and romantic appetites (even if in thought rather than deed) but were not possessed of enough discretion to make the right choices- was a step forward for a genre in which its young females had previously been portrayed as bimbo victims (Cover Girl Killer and The Night Caller spring to mind), but not one that all viewers would necessarily agree with. But most striking of all, and possibly the most enduring image which the viewer will take away with them, is of the masterful symbolism with which director Greene invests every shot. Every inch of the Kinch family's world- their house, their walls, their TV, Agutters underwear, bedroom furniture and toys, Sutcliffe's clothes, Marshalls van, the local Catholic church, their town centre, their record shop) - is painted a bright, scintillating white- a white which, by inference, is slowly becoming smudged and corrupted with the dirt of the outside world. White also symbolises, of course, purity and innocence (two qualities Catholic schoolgirls are supposed to hold dear), and it is into this world of innocence that the ever-present red bus (a symbol of violation and penetration), conducted by the lecherous yet similarly juvenile Simon Ward, makes regular journeys. The allegory is further expanded in one scene where Agutter believes she sees the Christ figure in church weeping blood: by the time we acknowledge it, its gone, but the seed has already been planted. Rarely in a genre production has the use of colour and background been so important or effective in creating a uniformity of mood. I Start Counting is as near-perfect an end to a decade as one could hope for, and exactly the kind of film people should be making now- which is, of course, exactly why they never will. A genre essential. by D.R.