Vier fenster four windows 2006

I’m actually very surprised that this film, which I saw at the Vancouver International Film Festival, is rated so low, because I really did enjoy this piece, sort of a Rashomon twisted tale, of 4 members of a family’s take on a very uh, INTERESTING day. We follow each member around in each segment, and find out the twists and turns of their separate days. You think son is so smart? You should see what he does on the side? Daughter looks distant? Wait till you see her on the subway! Let’s, uh, not even TALK about Mom and Dad. All in all, this was a fun movie with a lot of great performances (and I might as well say it, the son is a total hottie) that I was pleasantly surprised by, and I was eagerly expecting the next twist and turn!

I’m rating this movie 8 because it completely diverted me one afternoon while I was recovering from entertaining a visitor for three days. The movie depicts a middle-class German family in which each member thirsts for sexual adventure. It is slow moving, but what happens next is never predictable. Some of the fun is in the little details: the way the father and daughter show their anti-social inclinations by littering, the way the mother scratches a bit of something-or-other off a wall—the way she does a solo dance. All the actors are attractive and pleasing to look at. If you want a sweeping story, this isn’t it. If you like observing people, you will like this movie. The one big weakness is that there is no big payoff at the end. The movie just sort of stopped, and I wished it hadn’t.