When a group of young people sits peacefully on the banks of the river on a sunny summer day, drink, smoke, laugh, then it usually has terrible consequences in the cinema. For example, you become victims of supernatural forces in the “Blair Witch Project” manner or the like.
Or they serve as an exemplary study that, in your opinion, is the dominant plague of youth: bullying, drug addiction, sexual violence, neo -nazis and the like. In Willy Hans “Der Fleck” in the film, but worst of all – that they are bored. And it is incredibly charming to watch it.
Willy Hans studied at Hamburg at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK); Uim Wenders and Angela Chanelek are among his teachers. You think this is immediately noticeable for your film. “Spots” have something special feeling of Wenders for inertia, with which time flows, and out of a strict representation of the landlord about the details of the frame and the environment.
Director Willy Hans. With Leo Conrad Kun, Alva Shefer Wa Germany/Switzerland, 2024, 94 min.
The SCHANELECS cinema is often associated with somewhat dry intellectuality, because it requires and requires a lot. Thus, you could get her last film “Music”, which participated in the competition in Berlinal in 2023, the more you were included in the Oedipus myth. But you forget how sensual, almost the same as your films.
Big sensuality
This sensuality can also be created by Willy Hans in Der Fleck, his first full feature film. Right in the first scene, in which you can see the locker room in a hard atmosphere in which several 17-year-old boys are preparing for physical education, you think that you can literally feel specially thick air in it. Later, on the river, where the day passes for the specified group, a summer air temperature can be felt on your own skin.
The thread of action “Der Fleck” is surprisingly simple and surprisingly dimensionless: 17-year-old Simon (Leo Konrad Kun), who returned to the locker room in the first stage to get his bottle of water, skip physical education in, apparently, spontaneous inspiration and instead rides home, where no one is waiting for him, not even a cat.
He has nothing more to do, he will drop a little in such a similar area of the villa and met the neighboring boys Enes (Shadi Ec), who invites him to get to the river. Simon rises into his car. On the river, he watches a diverse group of girls and boys in the outside. You tease yourself, chatting, Lgate, nothing happens, but in a better sense.
At some point, the ball beats his nose, he enters into a conversation with Marie (Alva Shefer), and you go together to the next highway, where there is a snack where you consume fries potatoes. Instead of returning directly to others, they roam through the forest; The thunderstorm seems to be rising. It will be evening. You go to the party. That’s all.
An exciting place in this place is how fond of this inattention.
Fascinating in Der Fleck is how fond of this neutronist. The film consists of detailed observations: semi -abroad hands a bottle of water on the luggage rack of a car. Stones on the river are considered in their seroma, the flow of water in all its diversity. Observation of young people is no less specific.
A pair that whispers under a large towel, like a slight proximity in public. The boy travels to another to give him a cigarette, although he adheres to him that he must buy his own. A look at all this is not an omniscient. With subtlety, Willy Hans brings subjectivity to the perspective of the camera.
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The film quietly shows the river in the forest.
Most of the time she follows Simon on this summer day; But again and again, she raises his point of view. Others look directly into the camera – and perceive Simon with a nod, smiling, sometimes with a certain strange one. All this consists of a stream of consciousness, in the exact assembly and is accompanied by a soundtrack, which combines high atmospheric, naturalistic sounds with several selected classic insoles.
The result is a film that can remain without incident, but at the same time offers many stories through a sentence. The one who is from the youth, in which everything is still uncertain and is looking for importance and correct connection. One of the Simon, an outsider who initially experiences the girls in his environment as impregnable, but then experienced an approach to Marie, which already passes through various phases of attraction and refusal. Or just those who, from a summer day, whose watch stretches, in the most beautiful, most beautiful, sensual soulless.