WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SCREENING
Jan Ole Gerster's
OH BOY
(Germany | 2012 | 88 mins | M offensive language)
In co-operation with the Goethe-Institut –
non-members are welcome to attend
for a $5 donation (cash only) at the door
Wednesday 13 August, 7.30PM, University of Otago’s Castle 1 Lecture Theatre**
A funny, jazz-inflected account of a bad day in the life of an uber-cool young Berliner. With a knowing cinephile vibe, this was an unexpected box office and festival hit on first release.
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| “Niko (Tom Schilling) wakes up to what looks like the scruffy last goodbye of an exhausted relationship, and spends the rest of the day finding he’s slipped a few other moorings as well. He screws up a bizarre psychological test to reclaim his driving licence, his bill-paying father figures out that he’s not been to college in two years and a promising encounter with an old schoolmate gets very weird... Shooting in lustrous black and white, debut director Jan Ole Gerster guides us from ironic hipster comedy into a poignant ode to today’s Berlin” (Bill Gosden, New Zealand International Film Festival 2013).
FURTHER REVIEW
"What is truly delightful about the film is its loopy, gently slapstick sense of humour, its use of continuous running gags that pay off cumulatively (no small feat), and the dreamy sense that Schilling’s somnambulism is pierced through only by the insane incomprehensible behavior of others. Schilling is a beautiful actor, accessible and vulnerable, and a veritable “Everyman” when compared to the kooks he encounters... Niko confesses early on that he often doesn’t understand what other people are saying to him, that they speak the same language but somehow he’s not getting the message" (Sheila O'Malley, RogerEbert.com).
Finally watch Director Jan Ole Gerster take questions about Oh Boy!
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**To get to the Castle 1 Theatre: walk up between the University of Otago’s Arts building (Burns) and Information Services building (Central Library), on Albany Street.
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